I'm working on some plans to go over with my local building inspector for an addition to my mobile home. This is a free-standing structure that will have minimal attachment (no structural attachments) to the mobile home.
The dimensions are 16x20, and I'm thinking about a cathedral ceiling. The pitch is going to be 3/12. What sort of ridge beam would you need for something like this? At 16 feet, and supporting rafters that would be about
10.3 feet in length, I was thinking that maybe that a laminated beam made up of 3 2x8s would be sufficient, or more than sufficient. I'm pretty sure I've seen 2x8s this long at the lumber yard so I wouldn't even need to splice.