MEGArafter

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MEGArafter is the roof truss equivalent of the MEGAjoist floor truss. It has all the benefits of the MEGAjoist floor truss product.

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  • Category
    Roof Frames & Trusses
  • Brand
    MEGAjoist
Features

The MEGArafter provides many advantages over conventional products. The benefits are:

  • Fully Australian Made
  • Environmentally friendly – almost fully constructed of timber
  • Easy to install
  • Cost-effective
  • Foot trafficable top & bottom chords
  • Superior ready-made service penetrations
  • Great strength and durability
  • Results in a stiff floor system
  • Can be designed to be site dock-able
  • No dangerous sharp metal plates or struts
  • Can significantly reduce the steelwork required on projects
  • Can have truss depths made to a customised height
  • Can have built-in custom grades to all fall for roofs and balconies
  • Engineer designed and certified
Superior Product

MEGArafter can be graded up to 2.5 degrees making it highly suitable for flat roofs. It can have the box gutters and parapet upstands formed on the ends of the truss. It can be graded at 1 in 80 or 1 in 100 making it ideal for use in tiled balconies. This saves messy and expensive tile grout beds.

How We Make It

The MEGArafter is made much in the same way as the MEGAjoist.

The timber material is first prepped by cutting the chords and blocks as per the specific project requirements. Once the material is prepared, the MEGAjoists are assembled and glued with the MEGAjoist proprietary adhesive on a custom designed vertical jig. The jig clamps the trusses and is used to nail off the truss. Once fully nailed off, the truss is removed from the jig so that the next one can be made.

What It's Made of

As per the MEGAjoist, the MEGArafters are constructed of solid timber glued with a structural adesive, meaning there are no steel webs or plates to cause injury or strip electrical wires. The absence of steel webs and plates means that the risks of injury or stripping wires is significantly reduced.

The solid timber nature of the product means that once the product is installed it acts as a carbon store for the life of the building, meaning they are an environmentally friendly product.

Installation

MEGArafters are installed in a way similar to conventional low-pitch roof trusses.

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MEGAjoist™ is an innovative, cost effective, environmentally friendly, long span floor joist system that is easy to install and provides ready-made service penetrations. It can be site measured to suit or can upon request be designed to be docked on site. Lead times are minimized. MEGAjoist trusses follow beam formula. They are generally stiffer than conventional timber trusses, resulting in a stiff floor system. MEGAjoists are made from solid timber elements that are glued with a structural adhesive replacing steel struts and plate connections. The absence of steel webs or plates avoids injury or stripping of electrical wires and prevents floor squeak under load.

MEGAjoists can be made to custom heights and can be graded to form balconies if required. They have superior strength relative to other products. MEGAjoists can be designed to be load-bearing and cantilever; reducing the amount of steelwork required for projects.  This can result in significant cost savings.

The solid timber nature of the product means that once the product is installed it acts as a carbon store for the life of the building.

MEGArafter is an equivalent low pitch roof truss system.

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