Roofing

Lateral bracing of roof

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.36 PM

Hi guys Ive been up in my attic and noticed that there is no lateral braceing along the roof. The roof itself appears perfectly braced front to back and at either lateral side there is a brick wall (its a semi detached house) and its been like that since 1970 and in no danger of falling down. My questions are: is it worth doing? If you would do it what type of wood would you use and should it be treated? And if i were to do it is it ok to drill through the wood im useing through to the brace underneith? I dont need to splice it or anything like that. Some details about my roof space: All joists, trusses and braces are 35mm thick and 71mm wide. The attic length is 5m (4.93 from end brace to brace) and im aware that i cant get a 5m plank of wood up into the roof space so my plan was to divide the new lateral brace into 3 and have it overlap two braces from each plank. I was also planning on screwing through the new lateral brace into the exisiting barace to hold it in place. Cheers guys