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Going to go look at a job tonight on a fairly modern house where the owners want to remove the garage roof, install a floor and walls, and then a new roof. You know, build up another room over their garage. Now, never having done this type of particular job before, my immediate reaction was to tear off the old roof and roof strucutre, bring in the floor and walls, then set a new roof on top. However, one of the guys asked why we couldn’t just lift off the old roof and reset it. Guess I never really thought about it, but I’m a little concerned with the integrity of the whole shebang in doing something like that. Any experiences or comments?
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it is unbelievable how much time and money you can save if you can cut the roof free... pick it with a crane and set it on the ground.. then reset it on the new walls..
think about cutting it at the top plate so as to leave the top plate attached to the rafters..
set the old top plate on the new bottom plate and tie it back together with an engineered system if your bldg inspector wants engineering.. otherwise just use a lot of simpson h2.5's...
b but hey, whadda i no ?
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Going to go look at a job tonight on a fairly modern house where the owners want to remove the garage roof, install a floor and walls, and then a new roof. You know, build up another room over their garage. Now, never having done this type of particular job before, my immediate reaction was to tear off the old roof and roof strucutre, bring in the floor and walls, then set a new roof on top. However, one of the guys asked why we couldn't just lift off the old roof and reset it. Guess I never really thought about it, but I'm a little concerned with the integrity of the whole shebang in doing something like that. Any experiences or comments?