Our attic is huge and unfinished - and worthless for just about everything. We have "hip roofs - so from the outside the roof on all sides is angled.
Inside, the mid peak is probaby 15-18 feet up from the floor. There is blown-in insulation across this "floor" - and of course, stuff like ducts and other stuff runs haphazardly around.
I'm investigating putting a room up there. There are no windows, so I'd need to put a doormor into one of the angled roofs. It would sort of be a unique loft/office - so I'd probably run a permanent wood custom "ladder" up - more like steps, but almost straight up - from an upstairs hall.
But all around, whoever did the framing when the house was built 12 years ago looks like they somewhat randomly put up angled supports for the rood.
As you'd look at the run of any of the roof, from the peak down to the soffet - they've put 2x4 or 2x6 supports across the roof studs about halfway down. From those, they came out with 2x4 supports at about 45 degree angles down to the attic floor. I can't see how they are attached down there as it's covered in insulation. Also, some appear to be "T"ed 2x4 perhaps for added support.
If I could remove these completely - I could frame in a room about 20 by 15 with at least 8 foot ceilings.
So two questions:
1. The angled supports cut right into the space I'd want the room. So is there some other way to replace them? Like if I for instance framed my new room so the top edge become one of the supports?
2. I wonder if the floor of this attic would techically be coded to have a room. Like maybe it wouldn't support the weight. However, the room will be above another room/tall wall below - not over a big void on the second floor.
3. We're in Georgia - and this attic gets really hot. And the "door" to this room would be in its floor - and it would be the highest point in the house. I'll tap into a duct to bring in heat and AC. But I'm wondering if this room could become impossible to temperature control. All the heat of the home would go up into it. And any cold (like AC) would fall out of it.
Thoughts?
Inside, the mid peak is probaby 15-18 feet up from the floor. There is blown-in insulation across this "floor" - and of course, stuff like ducts and other stuff runs haphazardly around.
I'm investigating putting a room up there. There are no windows, so I'd need to put a doormor into one of the angled roofs. It would sort of be a unique loft/office - so I'd probably run a permanent wood custom "ladder" up - more like steps, but almost straight up - from an upstairs hall.
But all around, whoever did the framing when the house was built 12 years ago looks like they somewhat randomly put up angled supports for the rood.
As you'd look at the run of any of the roof, from the peak down to the soffet - they've put 2x4 or 2x6 supports across the roof studs about halfway down. From those, they came out with 2x4 supports at about 45 degree angles down to the attic floor. I can't see how they are attached down there as it's covered in insulation. Also, some appear to be "T"ed 2x4 perhaps for added support.
If I could remove these completely - I could frame in a room about 20 by 15 with at least 8 foot ceilings.
So two questions:
1. The angled supports cut right into the space I'd want the room. So is there some other way to replace them? Like if I for instance framed my new room so the top edge become one of the supports?
2. I wonder if the floor of this attic would techically be coded to have a room. Like maybe it wouldn't support the weight. However, the room will be above another room/tall wall below - not over a big void on the second floor.
3. We're in Georgia - and this attic gets really hot. And the "door" to this room would be in its floor - and it would be the highest point in the house. I'll tap into a duct to bring in heat and AC. But I'm wondering if this room could become impossible to temperature control. All the heat of the home would go up into it. And any cold (like AC) would fall out of it.
Thoughts?