We spec'd "room in attic" trusses in the attic of our house, which give you
a fair amount of usable space depending on your roof pitch. We ended up
with a room that is 15' wide (at the floor) with a 4' knee wall and about
4" of flat ceiling in the center of the room (the rest of the ceiling is at
roof pitch. The only issue we had with this space was getting it properly
insulated. The sub-floor to wall join was too loose originally and we had
a lot of air leakage (this is a partially finished, heated space). We
ended using spray in foam to seal up the trouble spots, and have had no
issues since.
Here is a copy of the plan and some pics of the framing.
http://www.johninnis.com/our_new_home/plans/P1010006_1.jpg
http://www.johninnis.com/our_new_home/Construction/06_15_07/IMG_0643.jpg
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Aric <shop at shariconglobal.com> wrote:
> Greetings Listerati,
>
> Long story short, the insurance people have thrown a monkey wrench into the
> renovation plan we had for the property we bought a couple months back,
> which means that rehabbing the failed roof on the garage has gone from
> sometime next year to ***NOW***. Well, not exactly ***NOW** but the moment
> I finish the quick&dirty patching to the stucco (which the recent cold&wet
> weather made obvious had failed and was causing the paint&spackle I spent
> the past 2 months on pop off the wall...) the garage is the next project so
> we can get off the horrendously expensive "vacant property/construction
> site" insurance and onto the "landlord policy" we had planned on.
>
> Anyway, the garage is roughly 30' x 40' with block walls currently sporting
> flat roof tht failed 10 or 15 years ago and has since had a couple layers
> of
> blue tarp added. We're told the previous owner had planned on adding a
> second floor but never got around to it (due to his passing away), which
> would explain the complete lack of pitch on the roof and the exposed joists
> and seemingly halfassed attempt as a flat roof. The roof is supported by a
> pair of 14" steel I-beams going parallel to the 30' dimension, spaced 14'
> apart and 12' in from either end (with 2x14" wood on 16" centers going
> along
> the 40' dimension). Given the waterlogged beams supporting the current
> "roof" and their complete lack of pitch, we're thinking a new pitched roof
> of some sort is called for (in a quick&cheap sort of way given it's too
> cold
> here in SE PA for putting down flat roofs).
>
> Seems to me dropping (more than) a couple roof trusses on top of the block
> walls would be the quick/easy/cheap route (there's 2 local companies that
> make them)... And while I'm at it, I could frame the walls up 4' or so
> easy
> enough to make the attic space usuable as 2nd floor/loft. And at that
> point
> I may as well do a proper 2nd floor, but then I'm far from the
> quick/easy/cheap route. I've got 2 months left to do this, of which 2
> weeks
> are already commited to finishing and painting the stucco.
>
> Any advice, particularly about how to spec roof trusses or bumping the
> walls
> up a couple feet to gain a second floor?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -aric.
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