Cut Attic Trusses Over Garage

Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss.

Cut attic trusses over garage.

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. Use a chalk line to draw a line along the floor parallel to the lower edge of the roof from one end of the attic to the other on both sides. Measure the width of your roof trusses from inside to inside. Attic insulation between roof trusses.

This will allow you to secure the opening so that you have stairs. That means you could lay a 2 x 4 ft. This will give you access to your attic storage. When a truss becomes damaged cut or modified there is a chance of a structural overload or that they will not perform properly.

In many others. A common misconception is that it takes little more than the installation of some decking over the attic joists to ready an attic for move in. In some houses this may be the case. Scrap of plywood over the chords and set about 40 lbs.

Of stuff on it. Even easier you can also use a prefabricated attic floor kit designed specifically to raise the attic floor above the insulation. Then you can add the attic hatch frame kit. The sad fact is your builder could have installed attic trusses over this garage for just slightly more than what the existing trusses cost.

The garage has a finished ceiling with two layers of drywall so code compliance wise that will meet the requirement of having a room above. Using the measurements from your loft ladder kit you should cut a square out of your garage roof. One use of trusses is for the support of a roof they are similar to roof rafters. The garage attic is pretty much at the same level as the master bed room floor.

Home owners should avoid cutting or modifying their roof trusses. To get a quick idea of what you re trying to do you can get a drawing of the truss that should have been installed above your garage when it was built. Measure in from the lower edge of the roof to a point 1 4 the width of the truss on either side of the attic. This goes for manufactured roof trusses the kind assembled with metal gussets.

These trusses are usually engineered by a structural engineering company to carry a specific roof load. However if you keep the storage weight to a minimum you may be able to build a storage platform above the insulation by attaching supporting beams to the sides of the trusses.