Q: I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to have ...

Q. Tim, I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to ...

We are adding a master bedroom and family room "wing" to our house. It will have a standard pitched roof. Do you recommend having the roof stick built with lumber or using pre-made roof trusses? — Arn ...

Question: We are adding a master bedroom and family room “wing” to our house. It will have a standard pitched roof. Do you recommend having the roof stick built with lumber or using pre-made roof ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A new kind of roof-and-attic system field-tested at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been developed to keep homes cool in summer and ...

A new guide describes how builders can increase the structural and energy performance of a home with a raised-heel truss construction system. According to the publisher of the guide, APA – The ...

Dear Pat: My living room has a pitched roof over it. Iwas thinking about removing some or all of the roof trusses toconvert it to a sloped ceiling with a skylight. Is this a feasibleproject, or will ...

Angular concrete roof trusses frame the flexible open-plan attic that crowns this Indonesian house, which has been renovated by local studio RAD+ar in Jakarta. The project, named Attic Above Garden, ...