This is my first post on the Fine Homebuilding Forum. I am a woodworker who does post on many forums but have never done any major home construction.
My question is as follows:
I have an older 2 1/2 story home (above grade) which was built in the 30’s. The original home has about 650 square feet per floor. In the 50’s someone poured a foundation to the south and made a ground level workshop with a 7 foot cieling (my woodworking shop). ABove the workshop they added a tennant suite. The roof above the workshop/ tenant suite is about 6 feet below my existing roofline on the original house.
My wife would like to raise the roof to match the existing roofline and make another bedroom on the top floor. I would get a workshop with a higher roof and we could turn that room into a sunken familly room someday if we were to blow a hole through from the dining room. My owrkshop would go in the new garage.
Is this at all possible? Or are we better off tearing the addition down and starting over again. I will be hiring professional to frame and I hope to upgrade the electrical and do the gyproc myself.
Thanks in Advance,
Dan Clermont in Burnaby
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Sounds to me like your talking about raising the roof, but also raising the floor system of the tenant suite. If that's the case, you may as well knock it all down and reframe- trying to lift roof or floor sections and frame taller walls underneath would be a nightmare (you can't just scab extensions onto the wall studs).
Bob
Here is a pic of the house. We are refering to the addition on the right side. We kive in Vancouver BC Canada
hard one to say without being there
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