Raise The Attic

The living room before the remodel.

Raise the attic.

The family room before the remodel. Converting the attic into a living space may require adjustments to be made to the roof to increase the height of the attic ceiling in order to meet building codes. Today ceilings from 9 to 12 are preferred. Homeowners are also seeing their homes average resale value increase by 1 446 after adding insulation to the attic area of the home.

Some older homes have 7 ceilings. That s a 107 7 return on investment home improvements projects such as siding can cost a homeowner nearly 14 518 to install but adding siding only increases the homes resale value by 11 093. A truss framed roof on the other hand doesn t have any attic space to expand you re probably going to have to raise a truss framed roof to get more space. Flooring ceiling and wall materials and other elements will reduce headroom and floor space and it s the finished area that matters.

If you don t have an attic check the plans to your home to find out about your roof specifically your roof structure. If you have room in your attic you can raise the ceiling height in rooms with an 8 foot ceiling however you will most likely need to angle the sheetrock starting at the top of the exterior wall towards the center of the room to follow the roof line. The basic space requirements for a finished attic boil down to the sizes of the finished rooms. If you have an attic then there is a high probability you can raise the ceiling in the room beneath it.

This photo was uploaded by thexsleeper. For years 8 ceilings were standard. The very first step in raising your roof is to determine whether or not it s actually possible. Making more of existing attic space and changing the pitch of the roof.

Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. Having enough head room in the attic is the first step to making the space into a living area. Dormers used to raise the roof in an attic come in different shapes and sizes but adding any functional dormer comes at a high cost because of the complexity of the job. Finished is important to remember when you re measuring an empty attic space.

After peering into their attic they wondered if it was possible to raise the height of their standard 8 foot ceilings to turn the family and living room into one lofty great room. Raised roof cost and roi.