Extending Loft Hatch In Trussed Roof

Putting a loft hatch in a ceiling.

Extending loft hatch in trussed roof.

Room in roof trusses can be craned into place to form the shell of a ready made new loft room with the insulation placed above the rafters for maximum thermal efficiency. Removal and rebuild of roof. Diy ceiling hatch how to enlarge a loft hatch or install a new loft hatch. A loft conversion is one of the easiest ways of adding extra space to your home depending on the size and structure of your roof space according to colorado roof toppers houses built before the 1960s are usually easier to convert than those built from the 1960s onwards.

What you must understand is that the ceiling joist is as structurally integral to a trussed rafter as the roof rafter as confirmed by the structural engineers he has subsequently contacted. Loft with the truss rafters removed the next step was to put in a stair well but we had to first decide the best place for it. The choice here was a stair well in the centre of the house with the new rooms leading off either side or putting it on the end in which case we would need a long gallery landing to provide access to all the rooms. Remove the existing roof structure and replace it with a larger one.

If the roof slope is steeper than 9 inches in 12 inches of run it doesn t take much width to end up with a nice room 12 feet wide with. A good sized loft hatch is always useful to allow ready access to the roof space of a property. Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss. This is only a temporary solution to solve how we get into the lof.

Loft hatches in older properties are small being just the width between two rafters or non existent pre 1900 20 there was often no need for access to the roof space so no provision was provided. You ll have shingle nails in your way that extend through the roof sheathing. This is because earlier houses have traditional framed roofs which can be. In this video i show you how we cut and fit a new hatch opening for us to access the loft.