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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com here at a new construction job site in New Hampshire
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It's a frosty morning, but really unique opportunity to show you a very unique truss design
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Look at this. So here's a nice wood truss that's actually for the garage in this home
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but most trusses you see, you'll see the rafter part come down and then you'll see the bottom
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cord just come straight across but look at this funny design here where here's the bottom cord
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but then it takes off at an angle and runs down to where it bears on the wall and you might ask
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well why in the world would they do that? That seems kind of crazy. Well I'm going to show you
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eye in just a second. So watch this. I have to kind of go across this wall to be able to show you
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what I show. I'll be right back. Okay, I'm back. Now I wanted to show you, here's what I can see
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You're looking at exactly what I'm seeing. We're looking across the bottom of these trusses here
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There's the garage door opening down there. Well, there was a flat two by four that went across
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And there's this very narrow triangle that you can see, I'm sorry, rectangle that's above the garage door
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Well here in New Hampshire in the Northeast, it's a very common thing
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They called transom windows They a really neat architectural feature Been around for hundreds of years and they allow a lot of light into the garage And because they went with extra tall doors
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and then the transom above it, you had to be able to raise the bottom of these trusses up
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so that the transom would be still inside the ceiling, you know, and below the ceiling of the
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garage so that's why the truss has had to be made that way so if you can dream it with a truss the
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shape generally the truss fabricator can do it i'm tim carter for askthebuilder.com i hope you
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