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   Sphere | Jan 02, 2005 07:56pm | #1

   Get an Eng to calc the sno loads before ya do anything. And ya cant lose the trusses and head them off without a heartache.

    

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   gdavis62 | Jan 02, 2005 08:05pm | #2

   You and the customer have a big problem.

   How about some nice Velux skylights, the size that goes right into the 22-1/2" truss bays?

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   MikeSmith | Jan 02, 2005 08:31pm | #3

   if you are still framing .. you can go back to the truss company and have them engineer some girder scissors and a girder truss to carry the redistributed load...

    the point loads on the exterior walls will also have to be carried to bearing..

    other than that ... yur screwed

   Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
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   timkline | Jan 02, 2005 09:00pm | #4

   unless ya don't mind da look of drywall wrapped trusses in the middle of the window....

    carpenter in transition

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   blue_eyed_devil | Jan 02, 2005 09:18pm | #5

   Howe, you won't have to rip the entire roof apart, but you will have to whack a substantial hole in the area that the dormer is going. You'll have to slip in some girder scissor trusses and header off the existing.

   All of this needs to be engineered, but if you don't act like it's the first time you've ever done it, the client will think you know what you are doing and will be satisfied that they chose a competent GC.

   Sounds like a 5-10k change to me.

   blue

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   Piffin | Jan 02, 2005 09:28pm | #6

   closer to ten, depending on size of dormer and what progress point he's at now, and the delay/frustration factor 

    

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   blue_eyed_devil | Jan 02, 2005 11:47pm | #7

   closer to ten, depending on size of dormer and what progress point he's at now, and the delay/frustration factor

   Ten sounds good if it hasn't been boarded yet.

   I wouldn't emphasize the delay/frustration factor. A 10k change sounds like a week to me and the framers only need another day or two at the most.

   Let's see: hack hole 1 hr, hack trusses, two hours, send in girders with crane, and crew, ten hours, header- four hours, build dormer, eight hours.

   I'll rough it for 4k.

   We are in this to make money aren't we?

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   DanH | Jan 02, 2005 11:50pm | #8

   Heck, nothing that a post right in the middle of the room won't solve. Put a merry-go-round horse on it and make it a "feechur".