Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.
How to raise a roof on a cottage.
This moving documents the part of a new construction and home addition remodel project.
Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons.
Raising a roof adding a second floor and creating a vaulted ceiling are all big projects.
Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.
Big enough that your local building officials are probably going to ask you to bring the rest of the.
Raising the roof on a connecticut cottage.
So they raised the roof.
If you want the ceiling vaulted all the way to the top it gets a little more complex and you ll need a structural ridge beam.
A vaulted ceiling with collar ties usually has a large flat area above the sloped sides.