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Knee wall to raise roof.
1 knock down the whole darn house since all we are saving is less than 200 lf of exterior wall all interior walls are being removed and the roof is being taken off and existing window and door locations are all changed.
This wall can be higher for example if covering a.
Studs or a mini wall or as second choice put in a block knee wall.
Adding a second floor.
Another method is covering the existing wall and new knee wall with full height plywood sheathing to eliminate the hinge.
So the challenge is to how to raise the existing plate height to 10 or near 10.
I have had three thoughts on this.
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.
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.
Attic knee wall an attic knee wall is a short wall that extends from the floor of an attic room to the roof rafters.
Either way you ll need the help of a structural engineer to make it safe.
A knee wall on top of the.
The knee wall forms the wall of the attic room and it also creates an enclosed space under the eaves behind the wall.