I’m building an attached garage on my cape cod. Its 24′ wide on the gable end, and the garage will be 22′ square. It will have a 12/12 pitch with second floor in attic space, just like existing home. The grade is about 18″ of slope front to rear, so I plan on doing a foundation/footers in one pour and a floating slab with a second pour. I’m not exactly sure how to frame up the floor joist for second floor. I’m trying to save on cost, so I wasn’t planning on using TJIs or anything like that. Just fishing to see how others would do it?
For now the second floor would be storage, maybe work space, but later I want to convert it to livable space so I’m trying to keep that in mind.
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A 22' span means floor trusses, TJI's, or a header somewhere. The header could be embedded in the floor so it doesn't drop down as far as if it sat below the framing but it will need to be engineered.
Thanks for the input.
Break it up
Set LVLs every 10 ft and span between them with 2x10x10. Might be less cost than 22ft trusses and much easier to handle and set overall.