You know what I mean. Tongue and groove 2×6 stuff, in various species. Also, the more exotic stuff, laminated up from cedar and other stuff, sometimes prefinished on the chamfered edge bottom show side, thicknesses 1-1/2 and up. Can anyone point me in the right direction? My application is a roof structure, fairly low pitch, I’ve got a 60 psf snow load to contend with, and I don’t want to screw up.
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Roof deck/sheathing or party deck?
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My hallucination has a roof structure pasted onto the rear of the house, about a 3-1/2 in 12 pitch, on beams centered at about 4'-4", and is partly over a breakfast room bumpout, the rest being over screened porch and canopy. Atop it sits some standing seam steel roofing, and a few feet of Adirondack wet snow. I found something at a website that seems to indicate that plain old 2x6 t&g, cedar, pine, or spruce, will handle it plenty well. Thanks for your interest.