Posted by W_B on January 20, 2016 at 07:20:16 from (155.188.123.25):
In Reply to: 2nd story addition posted by NY 986 on January 19, 2016 at 10:57:26:
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Have a similar situation, but on less than half of the upstairs area. There are two bedrooms up and a full bath between on one side of where the stairs come up and a much smaller and lower ceiling area on the other, essentially a long low, narrow room with a small window at the end. The house is a T shape and this area is a lower roof height, it's the leg of the T. House was build in 1947.
My idea was to take the roof off this entire section and extend the side walls out to the place where the first floor walls are, gaining about 3-4 feet on each side of the knee walls in the original area. I'd intend to make those side walls a full 8 ft. high, instead of the 7' high walls that's on the bedrooms and bath area. The gable end would be rebuilt also but would not use brick on it but just square it off at the first floor level and use a nice low/no maintenance siding all around. The new roof would be higher than the old so that would have to be tied in to the old.
We'd intend to use it as a new master bedroom with a private bath and some closet space! First floor bath is just below this area. Since floor joists are already there, electric is already there (would need some new circuits of course), vent stacks are there, and the foundation is already supporting that second floor it would be much cheaper than building out (I've done that on our first house, ultimately paid the same for the addition, that doubled the size of the house, as we did for the original house). One bonus is no building permits required and no inspections to slow things down in our county. I live in the township, zoned rural residential.
Just need the money and time to do it... might have to be yet another retirement project.
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