Adding rooms in building

[Mdaddyrabbit]

The building I am have put in is a 30x48x10. The attached image is the type of roof line I will have in a few weeks. I will be adding a bathroom, bedroom, and a shop. As you can see in the image the ceiling line goes from 10ft to the peak of 13ft.

The question I have and your opinion I would appreciate is this. Should I run the walls of the rooms all the way up or base my ceiling height on 8ft or 10ft ceilings and have a ceiling for each room?

 

[hammerhead611]

Personally, I'd frame the rooms up for 8 or 10' ceilings and place plywood over the ceiling joists and use that area for storage. If you run the walls all the way up, you'll just have empty space overhead in the rooms

 

[Kevin54]

Just remember this.....if you make the walls of the room 8' high and use the above for storage, you will need beefy ceiling joist to allow for the storage. And if storing stuff above it will turn into a large dust collector.

Myself...personally.....I would enclose it off and add add a ceiling in the room. Maybe add an access door for storage above the room, but I wouldn't leave an exposed flat ceiling at 8'.

If that makes sense.

 

[Mdaddyrabbit]

Just remember this.....if you make the walls of the room 8' high and use the above for storage, you will need beefy ceiling joist to allow for the storage. And if storing stuff above it will turn into a large dust collector.

Myself...personally.....I would enclose it off and add add a ceiling in the room. Maybe add an access door for storage above the room, but I wouldn't leave an exposed flat ceiling at 8'.

If that makes sense.

When you say beefy, 2x6, 2x8 ?

 

[GMCGarage]

Why do you need ceilings? just have open top partitions.

 

[firebirdparts]

You should stop at 8 feet and then you can heat and cool the inside of your bed and bath. Storage on top just a bonus.

 

[NUTTSGT]

When you say beefy, 2x6, 2x8 ?

That is going to depend on the span they are bridging.. I'm with Hammerhead on this and I'd suggest you insulate the walls and ceilings.

 

[JoeMcGov]

What is your plan for heating (cooling) the spaces? Any? You're in North Carolina so for "comfort" I could readily anticipate both.

That said, if you're gonna a small system with duct work just remember that the taller the room space (run walls to roof structure above) the more space you have to heat and cool.

To your original question I would only run them as high as the ceiling height for the individual room.

 

[finn]

My shop has a hall, office, and bathroom, all enclosed to the roof, with dropped ceilings and no access.

Wasted space, but it looks finished.

My garage has a small air compressor closet in the corner, with an overhead storage closet, accessible via a step ladder. The closet was supposed to have a door, but I never got that far. The ceiling in that part of the shop is just under 13’, so I cheated on ceiling height in the air compressor closet to give the upper closet more height.

I am in the middle of adding a wet room in the other part of the garage, with lower ceilings, about 11’. This room will be short studded also, with a deck for storage above the wet room (pump, pressure tank, utility sink and urinal in the lower wet room ). I am concerned about dirt accumulating on the deck, so I may eventually frame it in and add sliding or hinged doors to control dust.

Bottom line: make the otherwise wasted space usable, but beware that a flat deck is going to accumulate dirt, so an enclosure is probably best.

 

[CraigStu]

Depends on your taste and how you will actually use those rooms. A shop bathroom, I'd run the wall to the roof and skip a ceiling. Less $ and less work. Will someone live there as a guest occasionally or full time, or will this be a man cave, then I'd stop at 8ft and do real ceilings. Depends on how far the rooms run toward the center of the building, which determines how much storage space there would be above them whether you use the space or wall it off.

 

[Augus7us]

I have a 30x40 and did 9'x30' across the back wall for a total of 4 rooms (office, bathroom, dirty room and compressor closet). I went 91" for interior height. My ceilings are 12.5' tall so I have a 4.5' mezzanine above my rooms. I ran 2x6's on a 9' span with a 1' overhang giving me another 300 sq ft of storage. I'm happy so far. Still insulating and haven't really used the space but I think its going to work out well for me.

I'd recommend something like that vs going all the way up to the ceiling. You could also insulate the entire bedroom and keep the rest of the shop at 55 in the evening and use a space heater in the bedroom to save some money.

-Clint

 

[Mdaddyrabbit]

This will be around 900-1000sqf with the whole area being heated using GC90 and cooled with a MRCOOL DIY 24K

This will be the photography studio with carpet and hardwood floors. This does not include my shop of 20x20. I am not concerned with it at this point.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Just remember this.....if you make the walls of the room 8' high and use the above for storage, you will need beefy ceiling joist to allow for the storage.

It will also depend on whether he's storing Christmas tree ornaments or anvils up there.

 

[My Old Tools]

I went 8'x30x40 in my 30x80x10. I floored the attic space, had enough interior walls in the living space to easily support the ceiling and loads. Put stairs in the shop side to access it. Great storage.

 

[Mdaddyrabbit]

It will also depend on whether he's storing Christmas tree ornaments or anvils up there.

I would store small to medium photography props (seasonal)