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I have an ordinary ranch style home with a two-car garage at one end and the house at the other. Recently, a raccoon the size of a small cow got up in our attic and, in a drunken stupor, crashed through the sheetrock above the garage, leaving a large hole exposing the attic and rafters to the garage below. We had an exterminator remove the raccoon and patch the hole in the roof where our upstairs tenant was accustomed to coming and going. The huge hole in the garage ceiling has me thinking of a remodel. I want to do it myself.
Is there any harm in removing the sheetrock in the ceiling of the garage, exposing the roof structure above? If I do this, would it be harmful to wall off the exposed attic on the garage side, so the attic space above the house would be walled off to the open garage? I'm concerned with venting - is there a way to overcome this? What about a vented door to the attic from the garage in the new wall?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Is there any harm in removing the sheetrock in the ceiling of the garage, exposing the roof structure above? If I do this, would it be harmful to wall off the exposed attic on the garage side, so the attic space above the house would be walled off to the open garage? I'm concerned with venting - is there a way to overcome this? What about a vented door to the attic from the garage in the new wall?
Thanks in advance for any advice.