Attic Trusses Gusset Plate Pulled Back

Use a pneumatic nail gun and nails to attach your gusset on both sides of the wood pieces.

Attic trusses gusset plate pulled back.

The normal repair is to install a plywood or osb gusset plate nailed in place. Because it s nearly impossible to reinstall the plate replace it with a 1 2 plywood gusset. I wasnt sure if the cracks in the garage walls were related to he gusset plates. I would try to pull down on the top chord to see if the nails lineup with its current position which would indicate the damage was done before the roof sheathing was applied.

But what really got me was when i got into the attic above the garage. Metal connector plates can sometimes be pressed back when the teeth are still in alignment with the original holes. House built in 2005 garage has poured foundation small cracks on both side walls that go all the way thru foundation to outside of house. That many damaged trusses is unusual.

It s a sob and the plate gets mangled in the process. I saw three seperate trusses where the gusset plates were pulling out of the wood. These are usually much larger than the metal plate being replaced. For truss repairs to be effective the gusset plates must be in contact with the wood members and the nails must extend through all members.

The size and nailing pattern will be specified by the engineer. Sometimes an engineer will specify a metal replacement plate with nails.