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East Central Ia | This is common framing for insulated buildings around here at least.
We had the entire building framed this way but only half of it is insulated and heated.
I am planning about 40-50 psf but its designed heavier than that.
It’s mainly to add some structural support to a west facing wall that takes a lot of wind abuse, and will hold a few bales of hay.
If you look carefully in that picture most of the truss bracing is broken. It has since been repaired and beefed up. There used to be sliding doors there that a wind storm took so we had it framed in as there is a second door.
When they framed that door in those three posts in the doorway only go up to the bottom of the truss, and the girts are only used for sheet metal nailers. They are supposed to have 2’ 2x8 nailed flat against the posts and the edges of the girts sit on those. But the doorway we enclosed doesn’t have those.
The posts have been extended up to the roof line where the old door was now as well.
Edited by bleedred 12/2/2025 12:05
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