All Sections. Subscribe Now. 74°F. Sunday, July 13th 2025 eNewspaper. Home Page. ... I had my first experience with open web floor trusses made from standard 2x4s about 40 years ago.

I had my first experience with open web floor trusses made from standard 2-by-4s about 40 years ago. Ever since that day, when we installed these in a room addition, I was sold on the many benefits.

These are fantastic floor trusses in my daughter’s home. There are multiple reasons I specified them. (Howard Lipin/Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter I was recently downloading some ...

A floor truss can be designed to span 30 or more feet with ease. The truss manufacturer can build them so strong that there’s no bounce to the floor at all.

Open Joist 2000 is the product name for a type of floor-truss system being used in today's building construction. According to the manufacturer, Open Joist Inc. of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Open ...

Floor trusses borrow the same engineering principles bridge builders have employed for decades. There’s a very good chance you’ve driven across a Pratt truss bridge in your lifetime.

Some wood subfloors are very hardwood friendly. Wood floor systems framed with engineered wood I-joists or made from floor trusses often are extremely flat or in the same plane.

When the intense fire heated the 60 foot-long floor trusses, they eventually distorted and pulled free of their attachments to the exterior columns. As the upper floors of the towers fell, the weight ...