It costs about 60 per square foot to raise a ceiling into the attic of your house.
Remove attic raise ceiling.
If your home is a modest size single story tract home with standard 8 foot ceilings it s an ideal candidate for vaulting a ceiling.
I have this above my own garage.
Cost to raise ceiling into attic.
You ll pay 18 000 to 25 000.
How to identify and remove a load bearing wall.
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 an 8 foot ceiling.
The price isn t low though.
The living room before the remodel.
It typically involves removing horizontal beams called joists and installing a new ceiling.
A vaulted ceiling in one part of your house may create an attic space elsewhere that s isolated from the rest of the attic.
The new attic plan needs to provide access to each part of the attic.
Look at this photo of the space created by attic trusses at my home.
Raising the ceiling into the attic will affect the roof and structure of your home.
When you have an attic theoretically you can alter the joists in the living room area and frame a tray or coffered type ceiling or leave the ceiling open to expose vaulted rafters.
If you want to remove the room s ceiling and add a large skylight over a home office you can do this by building a skywell lined with drywall as one option.
If you don t have sufficient space above the room then a contractor has to raise the roof in order to elevate the ceiling.
Depending on how steep your roof pitch is vaulting a 20 by 20 foot room creates a new ceiling that s 11 to 12 feet high at its peak.
Whether or not you have an accessible attic is less important than the type of roof you have.
If your home has attic space you may be able to elevate the ceiling without touching the roof.
Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss.
The ceiling over one room can be taken out in several ways.