Vaulted Ceiling Roof Trusses

A vaulted ceiling angles up from the top plates of the wall sections.

Vaulted ceiling roof trusses. This design element makes a room appear larger and provides more natural light. Roof trusses are built in a truss manufacturing warehouse and delivered preassembled to the jobsite. The offset scissor truss has a bottom chord that is flat for a distance and then is vaulted up and back down. It is more expensive though.

In a common truss design sloping top chords function just like rafters in conventional framing and horizontal bottom chords fill the role of ceiling joists. There are variations of this design to create numerous unique ceilings. Click on the truss to select it and move it so that the exterior edge of the truss is aligned with the exterior edge of the framing layer. Vaulted ceilings can be constructed by either stick framing which means attaching each joist and rafter individually or by setting roof trusses that come engineered from a truss manufacturer.

A pitch truss with a sloping or non sloping vertical interior ceiling detail. The basic framing construction cost can increase by 5 to 20 percent in a home with a large 20 x 20 foot great room with a vaulted ceiling. If the roof was built with traditional rafter and joist construction the ceiling joists. This type of truss is perfect for the dining room living room great room and kitchen.

Explore all truss options with your builder. A scissors truss provides for a vaulted ceiling in the same time frame as standard trusses. To convert a truss roof to a vaulted ceiling you may need to do significant reconstruction of the roof. It can take various forms and often used for aesthetic purposes adding height and focal interest to the ceiling.

Engineered roof trusses may be designed to create a vaulted ceiling while still providing sufficient support for the roof s weight. Parallel chord trusses allow for greater interior clearance in buildings. A scissors truss creates a vaulted ceiling in the same framing time as standard roof trusses that produces a bland flat ceiling. The bottom chords are angled to create vaulted ceilings.

To create scissor trusses with both the ceiling and roof planes in place you can now create roof trusses. Click and drag to draw a roof truss perpendicular to the ridge line of the roof and ceiling planes. A vaulted ceiling in new construction is no more complicated than standard framing although it does require special roof trusses which are usually built off site.