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mbaggenstoss
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2014 04:23pm
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I have a 12' x 26' cabin. We have had it for a year, we got a really good deal on it, it was built by a High School construction team and then delivered to our property. It has a sleeping loft but it's really short, you can only crawl around up there. One of my daughters gets closterphobic sleeping up there and hates it. Would it be possible to raise the roof to make a bigger loft? I'm not sure how difficult or expensive it would be.
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rockies
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2014 04:37pm
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Yes, it is possible. You would have to cut away the "lower sloped" sections of the roof, leaving the two steeper sections in place, strip away the interior ceiling material on those steeper sections and sister new rafters to the sides of those rafters to frame a new roof. This will give you a much higher ceiling in an "A" shape. You would then fill in the gable end walls to the new roof height. This would be the cheapest solution.
If you don't want such a steep roof for the whole cabin, you would have to remove the lower (steeper) sections of the roof as well and reframe the roof from scratch from the top of the walls in an lower angled "A" shape. You might contact the high school and see if they want to take on the renovation as a school project.
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Just
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2014 05:17pm
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or you could lower the floor of the loft by extending it down into the main floor enough to give a small change area with some head room and a privacy area to change in . I have built 2 cabins that way , it makes the loft much more usable. look's like you could use the space over the sink if you moved the upper cabinets and moved the ladder .
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2014 05:22pm
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just build her on a small 8ft x 10ft bedroom to the side/simple shed roof/not much $$$....cut a hole into your existing outside wall...I did one like that at my old hunting cabin years ago...got tired of climbing a ladder...
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mbaggenstoss
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2014 07:23pm
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Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it! We are considering building a small bedroom on, we might just go that route.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2014 08:26am
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Quoting: mbaggenstoss Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it! We are considering building a small bedroom on, we might just go that route.
a dryed in place...with no leaks...I would not bother the existing roof DRY is DRY ....a small bedroom add on is cheap money!!! Best bet for sure!!
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SubArcticGuy
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:34am
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How about adding gable windows?
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rockies
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:51pm - Edited by: rockies
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Another option would be to remove the piece of trim (on the interior between the top of the wall and the steep roof part) to expose the joint between the wall and the roof and then take a reciprocating saw and slice through the nails holding the roof to the top plate.
Lift the entire roof up in one piece and build stem walls on top of the lower walls and reattach the roof to the stem walls. You could add another two feet or more in height to the loft, and then just get taller posts for the porch. The whole roof looks like it could be raised pretty easily.
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mbaggenstoss
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2014 10:00pm
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Thanks Rockies, we really like your last idea about lifting the entire roof up. Now I just need to find somebody to do it for us, my husband is handy but he would need help with something like that.
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