They support live and dead loads by efficiently transferring the loads to the building walls or supports.
Roof rafters price.
Pre manufactured stock trusses are constructed with spruce pine fir spf or southern yellow pine syp lumber.
Lumber size width 2x8 2x10 or 2x12 boards will be used to estimate cost of each rafter as well as total cost excluding local sales tax.
25 pound per square foot 6 29 pound per square foot 2 35 pound per square foot 18 40 pound per square foot 20.
Laredo sunset black powder coated galvanized steel rafter slips 10 box.
Rafter spacing and roof length will be used to determine quantity of rafters needed for your project.
You ll spend anywhere from 1 50 to 4 50 per square foot for materials alone or between 35 and 150 though extremely long and complex types can reach 400 each.
Roof truss basics roof trusses are engineered wood alternatives to hand framed rafters.
Roof truss prices for a 2 000 square foot home roof truss installation typically costs between 7 200 and 12 000.
These trusses the meet building code criteria as specified by structural building components of america sbca and the truss plate institute tpi.