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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com. I'm at a new construction job site here in New Hampshire
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and I want to show you something really exciting. A timber frame roof assembly
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and I want to talk about the components of it. Look at this beautiful ceiling that you're going
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to see. So here's what the timber frame is. You may have in your home at your house
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You may have just regular trusses, you know, that form the gable, you know, the slope surface
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So this is a giant Douglas fir rafter. And, you know, you see one going up and then it goes down to form the other side of the roof
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Alright, well here's the trouble from a structural standpoint. This is really important
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When you have a roof like this and it gets loaded on the top with snow and shingles
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It wants to kick out like that. It actually wants to collapse and flatten the roof
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Well, to hold those two things together, there's a major structural component here that we call a collar tie
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All right, and this is connected invisibly. You can't see it, but there's a really neat connection inside right here
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Inside here, it's connected so that it can't pull apart or that the roof can't collapse
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Now the other important component of a timber frame is right above my head
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This member that goes across is called a purlin And typically what will happen in certain structural they attach the roofing directly to these But to make a more interesting look here on this job the architect decided to use other
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beautiful finished lumber, this Douglas fir like 2x4, and then put the finished
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ceiling on top of that. So that's a simple timber frame structure in a
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residential home and those are the components. And believe me, they make for a
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very, very beautiful finished ceiling. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com. I hope you discovered something useful and helpful in that video. How would you like that
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