If the roof slope is steeper than 9 inches in 12 inches of run it doesn t take much width to end up with a nice room 12 feet wide with an 8 foot ceiling.
Finishing a trussed attic.
Your attic is now ready for finishing.
The lyons used a web of 16 inch deep engineered trusses to accommodate wiring plumbing and ductwork then topped the plywood subfloor with oak or tile.
Finishing the attic 1.
Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss.
To meet all three goals insulating your finished attic ventilating the roof and maximizing headroom use a combination of dense batt insulation rigid foam sheeting and air chutes.
Cut a 2 by 4 to fit horizontally from rafter to rafter on each truss.
This completes the reframing process.
If you ve measured your attic space and feel you have enough room to accommodate living space chances are you have rafters or you have special trusses called attic trusses which create a large open space under the peak of the roof.
Before you put up wallpaper or decorate.
It may take 2 to 3 coats to cover the new drywall.
Most codes require a specified minimum amount of headroom and it s tough to meet this requirement when insulating a finished attic especially since most codes require insulation equal to r 38 or more.
I have this above my own garage.
If you have this type of roof framing you cannot finish your attic without rebuilding the roof.
Prime and paint the walls.
Spend extra on the ceiling.
By contrast conventional trusses have supports called webbing that zigzag through the attic space.
Attic floors generally need to be reinforced with additional joists and a subfloor.