Opening Up A Roof Space

If you see a complicated framework of 2x4s held together with perforated metal plates your roof is framed with trusses.

Opening up a roof space.

Create another room from which to enjoy the outdoors by sheltering an exterior sitting space from the elements with a widened overhang or a new segment of roof. In other words remove the ceiling and ceiling joists and allow the pitch of the roof to be the new ceiling. We wish to open up the kitchen living space to the rear of our property by expanding the space into the existing roof space. A small dining area separate living room galley kitchen and breakfast room were all opened up into one large space.

But if it s framed traditionally with big lumber rafters the roof can stay in place. Where standard roof trusses are used a fair amount of strengthening will be required so that parts of the trusses can be cut away to open up the roof space roof trusses must never be modified without professional guidance. First head to the attic. You ll have to remove the entire roof structure to vault the ceilings.

Opening up roof structure to living space to roof pitch removing ceiling and ceiling joists we wish to open up the kitchen living space to the rear of our property by expanding the space into the existing roof space. Opening up roof structure to living space to roof pitch removing ceiling and ceiling joists. Watch this video before. The addition of a screened porch can also serve as an excellent connector between inside and out.

This is a single pitch roof which slopes from party wall to our own external wall. A structural engineer was used for opening up this project s entire first floor.