DEAR TIM: My family is growing and I need to move my home office. I looked up into the attic over my garage that’s built with standard roof trusses. There’s plenty of room to create an office.

The steeper the pitch of the roof over the structure, the larger the room can be in the attic. I'm typing this column right now in my small man cave that's above my garage.

To answer your question, the garage attic is not a good area for storage. First a truss, a manufactured roof system, is designed to support the roofing above and the ceiling below.

Detached garages come in all shapes and sizes. Don t make yours too small like this one. Note the room over the garage because attic trusses were used. (Tim Carter) Analysis by Tim Carter Q: I ...

Forty-two wooden roof trusses collapsed and splintered this week during construction of Unity’s new public works garage. No one was hurt when the 80-foot-long trusses fell — some on Sunday and ...

Since you're in southeastern Pennsylvania, the scene of record-setting snowfalls last winter, my hunch is that you had snow-load deflection on the garage roof. Smaller rafters or trusses spaced ...