As the seasons change and storage space disappears, the garage rafters start to look like free real estate. Boxes, camping gear, holiday decorations — it’s tempting to shove it all “up there” and call it a day.
But there’s a question almost nobody asks until something cracks, sags, or falls: how much weight can a garage truss actually hold?
The short, official answer isn’t very fun:
- Standard garage roof trusses are designed to support your roof structure, not a mini-warehouse.
- Unless you have storage trusses (also called attic trusses) specifically engineered for extra loads, you technically shouldn’t be storing anything up there.
That’s what the building code and engineers will tell you — and they’re not wrong.
But if you ask those same engineers what they do in their own garages, the answer gets more nuanced.
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