Before you put up wallpaper or decorate.
Finishing a trussed attic.
Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss.
Spend extra on the ceiling.
Prime and paint the walls.
Cut a 2 by 4 to fit horizontally from rafter to rafter on each truss.
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.
This completes the reframing process.
Instinctively eyes will be drawn to the sloped ceiling in most attics so it s a good.
I have this above my own garage.
Finishing the attic 1.
Most codes require a specified minimum amount of headroom and it s tough to meet this requirement when insulating a finished attic especially since most codes require insulation equal to r 38 or more.
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.
If you have this type of roof framing you cannot finish your attic without rebuilding the roof.
Attic floors generally need to be reinforced with additional joists and a subfloor.
Your attic is now ready for finishing.
To meet all three goals insulating your finished attic ventilating the roof and maximizing headroom use a combination of dense batt insulation rigid foam sheeting and air chutes.
By contrast conventional trusses have supports called webbing that zigzag through the attic space.