To meet the building codes 50 percent of the finished floor space must have a ceiling height of at least 6 foot 8 inches.
My attic is only 6 feet tall.
Living areas and hallways must have a ceiling height of 7 feet or more and bathrooms and laundry rooms must be at least 6 feet 8 inches tall.
This is my cluttered man cave and ham radio shack.
These can save space depending on your current house design because code usually only requires a spiral staircase to be 26 wide.
Don t forget to factor in the inches you will lose with flooring and ceiling coverings.
The room is 12 feet wide the vertical wall to the right is 4 feet tall the ceiling above is 8 feet tall.
I also want to know where the 8 ceiling line is actually 8 1 125.
Would still not be allowed because its 4 x 17 5 dimensions.
This will let me know where i can place walls to create rooms that will have no sloped ceiling.
Building codes vary on headroom and space.
Raccoons can enter year round but 90 of cases happen in the months of march april and may when the female raccoons enter attics looking for a safe place to give birth.
This specifies that the walls must be at least 5 tall so i need to know exactly where the 5 ceiling line is within the attic.
If the ceiling height is the same the stair area required for the attic will be very similar.
To prevent homeowners from building strangely configured and potentially dangerous spaces.
Step 3 contact a professional contractor or architect for an estimate regarding the roof adjustments needed to increase the attic height to meet building code requirements.
This will give me a starting place for the design.
In one scenario this would translate to a bare minimum of 7 x 10.
Attic trusses created this room.
Another option for the stairs to your attic would be a spiral staircase.
In addition the living space must equal at least 70 square feet with a minimum width of 7 feet.
Spiral staircases take up only about 5 feet.
Enlarging an existing stairway or adding a new one will affect spaces below.
The rest can be less than 7 feet.
As an example a floor space that totals 70 sq.
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.
A straight run stair will chew up 10 to 14 feet of floor space.
However most require that at least half of the attic has a height of 7 feet 6 inches.
The wider the structure is the bigger the room can be.
Different animals are more likely to enter your home during different times of the year.
This room is over the garage of my new hampshire home and it was created using attic trusses.
Installing attic flooring for light storage only.
This 50 percent must be at least 70 square feet.
