Opening Up A Roof Space
First head to the attic.
Opening up a roof space. We wish to open up the kitchen living space to the rear of our property by expanding the space into the existing roof space. Opening up roof structure to living space to roof pitch removing ceiling and ceiling joists. The addition of a screened porch can also serve as an excellent connector between inside and out. In other words remove the ceiling and ceiling joists and allow the pitch of the roof to be the new ceiling.
Watch this video before. Create another room from which to enjoy the outdoors by sheltering an exterior sitting space from the elements with a widened overhang or a new segment of roof. The attic space inside a roof meaning pronunciation translations and examples. You ll have to remove the entire roof structure to vault the ceilings.
If you see a complicated framework of 2x4s held together with perforated metal plates your roof is framed with trusses. This is a single pitch roof which slopes from party wall to our own external wall. A small dining area separate living room galley kitchen and breakfast room were all opened up into one large space. Opening up roof structure to living space to roof pitch removing ceiling and ceiling joists we wish to open up the kitchen living space to the rear of our property by expanding the space into the existing roof space.
But if it s framed traditionally with big lumber rafters the roof can stay in place. Second measure the depth of the rafters.