Attic Trusses
Attic Trusses or 'Room-in-Roof' (RiR) provide a cost-effective way to increase living space and the value of your property.
Dormer windows and rooflights combined with versatile room layouts, give the designer scope to create attractive room spaces.
Attic trusses are designed with increased loading meaning that thicker timber sections are required. They offer a cost-effective solution for increasing the habitable footprint of a building.
Benefits of choosing Attic trusses are:
- Inherit all the benefits of trussed rafters.
- Quick alternative to using the cut roof method.
- a means of providing the structural roof and floor in the same component.
- ability to plan the room layout within the roof space.
- complete structure is provided, ready to receive room and roof finishes.
- Room-in-the-roof can be constructed quickly, making the structure weather tight much more quickly.
- Cutting site labour costs.
- Offsite quality-controlled design and manufacture.
- Increases space within the house without adding to the footprint of the building. (Great when space is limited on site).
- Customers have freedom to plan the room layout adding extra value to a building.
- Suitable for a wide range of roofscapes.
- Preservative treatment – Truss timber can be pressure treated.
- Can be used with masonry, timber frame or steel construction.
- Waste and pilferage are kept to a minimum.
- Just-in-time delivery to site suits construction schedules, reducing handling and storage costs.
Posi-Attic Trusses
Posi-Attics combine the benefits of an metal-web joist with an attic truss. All the features of the open web floor are available to the designer. The strength of an integrated Posi-Joist floor can allow larger spans. Increasing room space when it isn't attainable with the conventional attic truss.
The increase in attic floor depth provided by Posi-Joist is ideal for installing services and providing adequate space for increasing levels of insulation. Posi-attics can also increase the living space within the attic, delivering maximum value to the client.
