Recent content by Vladmakh

The garage is 24x24 There was a water leak due to a couple of shingles flying of which has been repaired. Installing a new roof is definitely out of the conversation. My initial thought was that the building was designed without the attic storage space and previous owners added for extra room/...

The structure is definitely not in question in my opinion. It stood thru crazy amounts of snow. In my opinion the way the ceilling joists are installed ( front to back) underneat roof trusses it's very doubtfull it's supporting roof in anyway. I've been contacting a dozen structual engineers...

I was thinking of actually of leaving 2 joists on each side of the garage and adding additional 2x6s horizontally to tie it all together in front and the back. That would free up the middle portion of the garage that I need, it will eliminate the header and will also keep the structure together.

Im going to remove remaining drywall and plywood this weekend. Hopefully get a structual engineer out here.

Collar ties are all ready there on every other rafter. To me since the ceilling joist are going from front to back it dosent seem like they are there to support the roof. I will cut the drywall around the header to see what exactly is there and upload a picture.

The joist are going from front to back with the header in the middle of the garage.

It dosent have a ridge beam but I do have a 2x6 Ridge board. I was thinking of installing roof rafters and tying them with 2x4 on top to prevent it kicking out.

Hello all. It's a gambrel (barn style) roof with attic space , semi finished with 5/8" OSB flooring. Bottom level cement floor to bottom of attic joist is 8'7. I'm looking to remove attic floor joists to put a car lift. I've removed the drywall from the ceilling to find out that my ceilling...