This article will explore important key questions and their solutions that you need to take into consideration before raising the roof on a house.
How to lift a roof off a house.
You need to start with a stick roof to do that.
100 days of work condensed to 3 minutes.
We lifted this large 2 story home using unified jacking system.
If your current roof and attic setup has electrical wiring and hvac plumbing pipes that will be in the way of your new roofing structure you will need to have these wires and plumbing moved and reinstalled to fit your new existing roof structure this can add up to around 4 200 in total.
If you wish to reach a specific height you can lift the roof of the patio with some riser brackets.
It allows you to add over a hundred millimeters of extra height.
Read on for some guidelines on how to raise the roof on a house.
But while a trussed roof can be raised it can t be modified to make a vaulted ceiling.
Wind can lift up the material and rip it away or leave it with bubbles which hurts the integrity of the covering.
Install some riser brackets for more height.
In situations like the ones above it can make sense to lift a roof in one piece and replace it without much structural modification especially with a trussed roof.
As you can see there are many options based on your specific home remodeling plans.
Damaged soffit or fascia.
Just don t start researching roof raising contractors yet.
In situations like the ones above it can make sense to lift a roof in one piece and replace it without much structural modification especially with a trussed roof.
The lifting of my detached garage roof 4 6 off of top plate to have a 12 6 ceiling height the building is 16 x24 all done with my car lift.
This home and surrounding sidewalks now decks has.
Electrical rewiring plumbing restructuring.
Cracks or tears in a flat rubber roof if you have a flat roof we ll look for missing pieces or tears in the material.
Truss framed roofs can often be separated and lifted off the home to be reinstalled after the upper floor addition is built.