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Framing a roof with a lvl ridge beam.
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Yes either a ridge board or a ridge beam is necessary and required by the building code where roof rafters meet at the the center of their span.
It has been my experience to never use a beam smaller than a two ply 2 x 8.
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Most interior beams need to include the roof load.
However a beam built up assembled from sawn lumber can also be designed.
Ridge beam sizing is based on the span of the beam between supports and the amount of roof load supported by the beam.
You can special order longer lengths but i would never delay a job for one ridge beam i ordered the lengths for both members about a foot longer than we needed.
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For the example above uniform gravity load to be resisted by ridge beam is 160 plf dead load plus 320 plf snow load.
I decided to make the ridge out of 1 3 4 inch by 11 7 8 inch lvl.
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This calculator matches up with 90 of the applications in the 2012 international residential code book.
If there is are any questions about anything else then you should contact your supplier or an engineer.
We lucked out because the longest length of that dimension lvl that was readily available locally was 48 feet.
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The difference between them is that a ridge beam is a structural member that bears half of the live and dead loads of the rafters on either side of it but a ridge board is not structural.
For most residential construction today lvl laminated veneer lumber type beams are used for a structural ridge beam.
A ridge board is a non structural member that serves as a prop for opposing rafters to rest against and connect to.
