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We are rehabbing our 100 YO home in NJ and have the place to the studs. My question is as follows:
In my pictures you can see that the roof (of the "new" addition put on in the 80 or 90's) is 2 x 6's spanning approx. 16 or so ft at 16. O.C. The only support is in the center (at approx. 9 ft. 7 inches) directly behind the skylight. These pictures were not taken for this purpose but hopefully you can see it clearly enough. The SE we have hired has deemed it adequate and thus no "repairs" to that section are deemed necessary. However, we would like to sister the 2 x 6's with 2 x 12's to bring down the ceiling height for things like insulation, recessed, etc as well as attached it with a stronger ledger board (currently the 2 x 6's attach to a 2 x 4).
I realize the pictures may not be the easiest to work with however when sistering the 2 x 12's should I support them on that center "beam" (not sure what that is called) as well? Any ideas? Please let me know if this is not clear enough and I can attempt to snap some more detailed pictures to describe the scenario...
Thanks,
Tom
We are rehabbing our 100 YO home in NJ and have the place to the studs. My question is as follows:
In my pictures you can see that the roof (of the "new" addition put on in the 80 or 90's) is 2 x 6's spanning approx. 16 or so ft at 16. O.C. The only support is in the center (at approx. 9 ft. 7 inches) directly behind the skylight. These pictures were not taken for this purpose but hopefully you can see it clearly enough. The SE we have hired has deemed it adequate and thus no "repairs" to that section are deemed necessary. However, we would like to sister the 2 x 6's with 2 x 12's to bring down the ceiling height for things like insulation, recessed, etc as well as attached it with a stronger ledger board (currently the 2 x 6's attach to a 2 x 4).
I realize the pictures may not be the easiest to work with however when sistering the 2 x 12's should I support them on that center "beam" (not sure what that is called) as well? Any ideas? Please let me know if this is not clear enough and I can attempt to snap some more detailed pictures to describe the scenario...
Thanks,
Tom
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