Roof Plate Timber

Like a frame on a fine painting a beautiful timber framed structure is not complete without the mass and strength of steel plates.

Roof plate timber.

Some of these can support the roof and prevent ridge sagging and wall spreading. We make these custom steel connector plates to your specifications. Getting the wall plates or top plates as they are sometimes called right is important because all the ceiling joists roof rafters hips etc. Will all be fixed to them.

In the uk the term typically refers to a length of timber bedded on mortar on top of the internal leaf of an external cavity wall. Historically crown posts were called king posts but this usage is confusing and obsolete. This provides a fixing point for the feet of rafters and distributes the load exerted by the roof structure down through the walls without creating pressure points where each rafter meets the wall and also acts to prevent wind uplift. Collar ties rafter ties tension beams structural ridge beams.

A crown post is a term in traditional timber framing for a post in roof framing which stands on a tie beam or collar beam and supports a collar plate. These are great for pergolas timber framing trusses and a lot more. This page consists of beam brackets that you d put on the face of your beams or truss which is the exposed part that is in view when you are standing in front of it.