Flooring I Beams

Trus joist tji joists are a key part of making a high performance floor.

Flooring i beams.

They can be trimmed on site and long lengths allow ceilings and floors to be designed with fewer pieces saving installation time. The extra two inches of vertical distance when a floor is framed with 2 x 10 joists rather than 2 x 12s can be quite important for example. But larger is not always better when builders are constructing a home or adding a room addition. Tji joists are lightweight and come in long lengths which makes them faster and easier to install than traditional framing and saves you both.

Lp solidstart i joists are more versatile than open web floor trusses and more uniform and dimensionally stable than lumber. Let s expand our house beyond that 17 2 span capability to 24 feet wide. Engineered wood products ewp span and size charts for bci joists. Bci joists are specially constructed i joists with flanges made from strong versa lam laminated veneer lumber with oriented stranded board webs and approved waterproof structural adhesives providing outstanding strength and durability.

Lp solidstart i joist benefits. Common sense tells you that large floor joists can carry more load and spacing joists closer together also increases the load bearing capacity of a floor. The widest span in the floor joist span table in part 2 of this tutorial module showed that floor joists can span 17 2 if they are 2 x 12s spaced 12 o c. Some of those options include laminated veneer and strand lumbers i joist and rim boards glulam beams.

Experience has shown that joists designed to the code minimum live load deflection l 360 will result in a floor which may not meet the expectations of some end users. The installation of floor joists or beams generally occurs during the building of a house s original structure. We offer roof trusses storage building trusses and frames floor trusses and trusses that are immediately available to pick up at one of our conveniently located plants. In addition we carry a wide selection of lumber and boards.

Floor systems stiffer than l 480 may be desired. So the house dimensions will now be 24 x 13. Floor performance is greatly influenced by the stiffness of the floor joists. The dimensional stability of tji joists help them resist warping twisting and shrinking that can lead to squeaky floors.