As long as we ve got that crane on site let s take the roof up a little more enough to add an entire second floor.
Knee wall to raise roof.
I have had three thoughts on this.
Adding a second floor.
Studs or a mini wall or as second choice put in a block knee wall.
Another method is covering the existing wall and new knee wall with full height plywood sheathing to eliminate the hinge.
Pouring a wall underneath a suspended building doesn t strike me as a good idea.
Either way you ll need the help of a structural engineer to make it safe.
The jacks should allow you to raise the roof a couple of inches at a time while the cripples you attached to the top plate and short studs will help keep the roof in place.
The knee wall forms the wall of the attic room and it also creates an enclosed space under the eaves behind the wall.
This wall can be higher for example if covering a.
A knee wall on top of the.
Attic knee wall an attic knee wall is a short wall that extends from the floor of an attic room to the roof rafters.
A knee wall a short wall usually built approximately to a height of the human knee is constructed to raise the new roof over the existing one.
So the challenge is to how to raise the existing plate height to 10 or near 10.