One of the trends you may have heard about recently is that houses are getting smaller and taller. That means the average home has a smaller footprint and extends up multiple levels, increasing the need for smart flooring systems.
The benefits of choosing floor trusses? With the prefabricated trusses, it saves you the labour of onsite cutting and the risk of rework, not to mention non-conformance and engineering issues if service installations compromises the structural integrity of the floor. The open webs and voids allow easy fixing of electrical, plumbing, and energy services. There’s no minimum distance required between two services as compared to traditional methods.
Plus, there is the inbuilt drop-down provided by the fabricator, which means you don’t have to batten out or make allowances for wet areas.
Concerned floor trusses are more expensive upfront? It’s not always the case with the NCC changes for floor slopes around drains and wet areas, meaning an increasing requirement for 350-400mm trusses. At that depth, the cost of an open web floor is comparable to other flooring systems.