Finishing Attic Space With Trusses

If you have trusses it will be next to impossible to reconfigure them to allow for clear space.

Finishing attic space with trusses.

If you have this type of roof framing you cannot finish your attic without rebuilding the roof. The structural framing beneath your roof rafters or trusses will determine if you can add an attic bedroom and what it might look like. This is the end wall of the attic above my garage. Trusses are like big structural triangles that have angled top pieces that serve as rafters horizontal pieces that serve as floor joists and interconnecting web pieces that give the triangle strength.

You can t simply cut out or alter these supports without seriously undermining the integrity of the roof structure. Trusses are considered a superior method of framing a roof because of the additional support. The space is 12 feet wide and ceiling height is 8 feet. Rafters internal beams extending from the peak of the roof to its eaves provide a center open space that you can readily remodel.

Newer truss framed roofs are made with prefabricated trusses. If your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light storage you can install inch plywood or. By contrast conventional trusses have supports called webbing that zigzag through the attic space. Trusses w shaped framing that supports the roof make things harder.