Fixing joist on steel beam

[Peter500]

I have a timber joist that will sit on a steel beam and will support a flat roof. It will also meet a pitched roof as shown in the picture below. I was wondering whether a screw would be adequate to prevent uplift or whether something like nails would be required? I would also put some blocking between the joists (not sure whether to do timber or my 7N medium dense blocks.

Screws would be easy as I have a mag drill, but hiring a gun would be costly and difficult as they would need to go in at an angle due to the bottom flange of the beam.

 

[blup]

Can you drop the joist and fit between the flanges?

 

[Peter500]

Can you drop the joist and fit between the flanges?

I would lose head height, need to remove and cut blocks, and have additional timber to raise the height, so I don't really want to do that. I may also need to rethink locations of pipes etc. It's a garage, so the additional height would allow more storage. I'm hoping that there would be an easy way to do this.

 

[noseall]

I have a timber joist that will sit on a steel beam and will support a flat roof. It will also meet a pitched roof as shown in the picture below. I was wondering whether a screw would be adequate to prevent uplift or whether something like nails would be required? I would also put some blocking between the joists (not sure whether to do timber or my 7N medium dense blocks.

Screws would be easy as I have a mag drill, but hiring a gun would be costly and difficult as they would need to go in at an angle due to the bottom flange of the beam.

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If it's just holding down you're after, then just hook a short strap under the flange and fix it to a batten screwed to the side of the joist.

 

[Peter500]

If it's just holding down you're after, then just hook a short strap under the flange and fix it to a batten screwed to the side of the joist.

I'm not sure what you're describing, but it sounds like it could be a good idea. What sort of straps do you mean?

I've also just had the idea of bolting timber (like a wallplate) to the underside of the steep and then using something like truss clips with twist nails. So it'll be like a wall plate but instead of resting on something solid, it'll be held up by the bolts. This would just limit my options slightly where the bolt heads are.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Use something like this https://vuetrade.com/product/heavy-duty-joist-straps/

to end up with this: