Fixing Plasterboard To Roof Trusses

We have a garage that has a trussed roof that i want to install a plasterboard ceiling.

Fixing plasterboard to roof trusses.

To allow high level bracing to be fixed without injury install safe and secure temporary. Plasterboard ceilings fixed directly to roof trusses this technical update has been produced primarily for pryda fabricators supplying roof trusses into the south australian market. When trusses were installed at 600mm centres it became common practice to fix plasterboard ceilings directly to the truss bottom chords. A totally original design concept that transforms the method of hanging heavy plasterboard panels to ceiling joists.

03 releasing the trusses. We have to double board it to meet building control approval. On each side of the roof. 9 step 1 step 2 step 3 fix lower bracing as per the roof detail.

Continue to spread the trusses and fix by repeating the process until the roof is fully spread. Factory built roof trusses generally arrive at the job near their maximum allowed moisture content and drywall usually gets hung before the trusses dry out to achieve an equilibrium moisture content with the location. Suggested building the stud wall up to a few mm below either the truss joists or the in place ceiling plasterboard and then using expanding foam to anchor the stud wall to the roof.