I am working on a remodel of a fire-damaged building. We are tearing off the roof framing as it is mostly damaged. Part of the building was built with a framed wall height of 82″. I would like to raise the wall height without tearing out and re-framing the walls. Is there a standard for this? Can I just install a header on top of the existing top plate to bring it to the height I require?
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Have you considered leaving the wall height alone and just framing for a trayed ceiling? You could gain the ceiling heigth you want over the bulk of the ceiling sacrificing a minimal amount of height on the outside edges but get a more interesting detail in the exchange. You could get real fancy and go with barrel vaulted ceilings as well.
Done it once
I've been involved in doing it once to a garage to raise the height 3-ft to accomodate an RV.
We built what was in essence a long shear panel system of a standard framed short wall clad both sides with glued and screwed plywood on both faces.
The hard part was jacking up the roof to just a bit over 3-ft so we could install them.