Getting ready to do some major renovations on the kitchen. The whole job involves removing the basement stairway (and putting a basement entrance on the exterior of the house with bilco doors), adding that area onto the kitchen, eliminating a small window (with a poor view, and always in the shade), and eliminating an opening that looks out into our sunroom. Then, of course, completely gutting the room, right down to the 2x4's, new electric, new water, new cupboards, new appliances, new flooring, new counter, etc.
However, this leaves the room without sunlight. The current location of the window is 6 inches from the corner - retarded. The cupboards in there were custom built as a result, and only have a depth of 6 inches along the one wall. Useless. And, the kitchen is only 9'1" by 9'5". After eliminating the basement stairway and corresponding wall, the new dimensions will be 9'5" x 13'2".
Which leads me to this question: tips or advice on the first stage of my project: framing a wall above the supporting wall to the peak of the roof, (to add more support to the roof so that the outer wall (which is now the inner wall of a sunroom) won't bow out. I'm guessing that the 2x6's may provide a bit of lateral strength; the extra support for the roof should provide the same, or rather prevent the roof from shifting downward and the wall bowing out under a snow load. Then removing the 2x6 ceiling joists, and putting in two skylights (which would give the kitchen sunlight for the first time ever.) Also, as they're 2x6's, should I simply put in the styrofoam baffles (or whatever they're called for ventilation against the roof deck) then 5 1/2 inches of fiberglass insulation? Will it be safe for me to remove the ceiling joists first, then build that wall? If I do it in that order, I'll be able to get some sheets of OSB into the attic area and put down a floor for storage. (Oh, and is recessed lighting that close to the roof okay?)
Here's a picture with a rough (very rough) diagram of stage 1:
DSCN2673.JPG
(I got a smoking deal on the skylights already; they were at a discount warehouse and clearanced twice
Finished size is 22 1/2 inchs by 45 inches or something like that... should be perfect.
However, this leaves the room without sunlight. The current location of the window is 6 inches from the corner - retarded. The cupboards in there were custom built as a result, and only have a depth of 6 inches along the one wall. Useless. And, the kitchen is only 9'1" by 9'5". After eliminating the basement stairway and corresponding wall, the new dimensions will be 9'5" x 13'2".
Which leads me to this question: tips or advice on the first stage of my project: framing a wall above the supporting wall to the peak of the roof, (to add more support to the roof so that the outer wall (which is now the inner wall of a sunroom) won't bow out. I'm guessing that the 2x6's may provide a bit of lateral strength; the extra support for the roof should provide the same, or rather prevent the roof from shifting downward and the wall bowing out under a snow load. Then removing the 2x6 ceiling joists, and putting in two skylights (which would give the kitchen sunlight for the first time ever.) Also, as they're 2x6's, should I simply put in the styrofoam baffles (or whatever they're called for ventilation against the roof deck) then 5 1/2 inches of fiberglass insulation? Will it be safe for me to remove the ceiling joists first, then build that wall? If I do it in that order, I'll be able to get some sheets of OSB into the attic area and put down a floor for storage. (Oh, and is recessed lighting that close to the roof okay?)
Here's a picture with a rough (very rough) diagram of stage 1:
DSCN2673.JPG
(I got a smoking deal on the skylights already; they were at a discount warehouse and clearanced twice
Finished size is 22 1/2 inchs by 45 inches or something like that... should be perfect.
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