Bracing An Attic To Make A Room

There s plenty of room to make a 12 x 12 room with 10 foot ceiling at its peak.

Bracing an attic to make a room.

Cut a 2 by 4 to fit horizontally from rafter to rafter on each truss. Your attic is now ready for finishing. Everything is already in place you just have to transform an empty space into your vision. Homeowners cannot take chances with the structural integrity of their roofs.

This completes the reframing process. Unfortunately my home builder had framed out the attic using a common truss system utilizing 2x4 s see attached picture of exact type although my roof is much steeper and no middle non bearing wall below. No foundations or setbacks to worry about. How to brace rafters in an attic.

An attic is often the easiest place to add onto your house. Nail them to the rafters and angle nail the center support to the top edge of the horizontal brace. Cut the ends to the same angle you used for the pony wall studs. When deciding whether to convert an attic into living space there are a number of questions to consider including access ceiling height and natural light.