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Redesigning the Third Floor
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Redesigning the Third Floor
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" We've got a situation where we're trying to create. Thirty by 26 foot room right -- but that's not about that size which will be a family room. And we've removed a lot of partitions. We're down to a bare roof we've got collar ties that hold that -- together right. But we want to go one step further they've got on the outside of the house a beautiful set of dormer that serve the second floor. And their large dormer they have Shia groups on them. And if you look at the very first one closest to street it has an addition on the on the top that services the third floor -- with a little hip roof on it. And we want to recreate both of those situations here for the benefit of -- room so it's complicated frame that we're doing Iraq the number problem."
" Originally. This roof will never intended to -- real heavy snow alone because the house was on insulated so that -- Turn of the century that he just went for the third floor melted the snow snow came off the roof now we're gonna heavily insulated the roof. It's gonna have a big snow -- when you -- roof because I don't want plaster than the sound of the drugs that's the other thing."
" The original situation you had small rooms that had flat ceilings with the plaster now if you put the plasterboard directly onto this roof. You -- stiffen it so it just cracks. And just to make it even more difficult for us we're removing most of the roof framing on the side of the roof yeah the -- cut out for. And how does the structure work I mean they're up against each other right now aren't originally it's like my fingers are just a group of rafters that pushed against each other imagine life. Other finger to the collar ties and keep the roof from spreading death and now we're putting up these well. These are micro laugh tracks right. And so we're creating doubled up situations here. How many and when we put up. We've got. One already in place an -- explain how the how to load gets transferred down about this big heavy rafters now taking doing a workable polygraph is over here -- going to get had enough for the dormer. "
" So all the load from this part of the roof comes down to this rafter and then comes on to this it's public cripple wall."
" Which originally but some of the roof load down to this floor and the rest of it."
" Went down this gambrel laughed. Now because we've got much heavier load we're going to have to increase the size of this. Increase the size of the stud. And put a beam underneath the floor to take the additional logs and would always. Additional finding now the roof will be stiff enough so when -- plaster to class who cracked right."
" And you gotta go to great who trouble it's an enormous amount of my were the only way to avoid this is. Don't hire an architect is that this spinning it OK so I guess we've got one in place and I don't want to go on the other side. Now on the other side of of the of the roof itself you've built some temporary walls right. Well we're gonna have to increase the depth of all these rafters want to make and stiffer and two to give us enough room to get insulation. And serial sister something Christian something down ought to do that we have to take this cripple while out so we can slide the rafters up. And so this is to -- for a couple walls one here and one here the whole roof in place."
