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Timber Products Engineering, Inc., (TPE) provides structural design, quality auditing and inspection services to a myriad of customers throughout the United States and abroad. With a strong background in the overall construction process, TPE's highly qualified staff can be found designing structures, ensuring compliant construction through inspections and promoting inovation within the engineered products industry through quality assurance and testing programs. Regardless of project size, our staff stands ready to assist you on your next project.

"Easy company to work with. Everything was done remotely and I received exactly what was promised."

Garry L on November 2022

Timber Products Engineering, Inc., (TPE) provides structural design, quality auditing and inspection services to a myriad of customers throughout the United States and abroad. With a strong background in the overall construction process, TPE's highly qualified staff can be found designing structures, ensuring compliant construction through inspections and promoting inovation within the engineered products industry through quality assurance and testing programs. Regardless of project size, our staff stands ready to assist you on your next project.

"Easy company to work with. Everything was done remotely and I received exactly what was promised."

Garry L on November 2022

Structural Engineering questions, answered by experts

Trusses and rafters each have advantages and disadvantages, so one isn’t necessarily better than the other. For example, trusses are more affordable and often come in prefabricated kits, so they’re easier to build than rafters. However, rafters are available in a variety of designs, so it’s easier to find one that fits your style preferences. Plus, if you want to build an attic at some point down the line, it’s far easier to do that with rafters rather than trusses.

No, beams are the primary load-bearers for flooring or roofing systems, and they distribute the weight of the structure to your foundational supports, while joists bear far less weight and distribute their loads to the beams. Beams are usually thicker and longer, and they have support posts or foundation walls beneath them for support.

Yes. Foundation walls are always load-bearing.

Most load-bearing walls are exterior, though they can also be interior.

Yes, you can put a doorway in a structural wall; in fact, most exterior doors are set into structural walls. The project is a little more challenging than installing a door in a non-load-bearing wall because you need a structural engineer to assess the wall and make sure it’s safe to create a wall opening. Your engineer’s report will include instructions for your contractor on how and where to install additional supports, like steel headers above the door, to distribute the weight above to the wall on either side of the door.

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