The jacks should allow you to raise the roof a couple of inches at a time while the cripples you attached to the top plate and short studs will help keep the roof in place.
Knee wall to raise roof.
Attic knee wall an attic knee wall is a short wall that extends from the floor of an attic room to the roof rafters.
I have had three thoughts on this.
1 knock down the whole darn house since all we are saving is less than 200 lf of exterior wall all interior walls are being removed and the roof is being taken off and existing window and door locations are all changed.
Roger makes some.
A truss framed roof on the other hand doesn t have any attic space to expand you re probably going to have to raise a truss framed roof to get more space.
Studs or a mini wall or as second choice put in a block knee wall.
This wall can be higher for example if covering a.
Adding a second floor.
The knee wall forms the wall of the attic room and it also creates an enclosed space under the eaves behind the wall.
A knee wall on top of the.
So the challenge is to how to raise the existing plate height to 10 or near 10.
Either way you ll need the help of a structural engineer to make it safe.
As long as we ve got that crane on site let s take the roof up a little more enough to add an entire second floor.