
Michael Jones
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So, I finally got my trusses up and my roof on.
The trusses are a scissors truss which gives a "vaulted" type of ceiling.
Extending the walls up to the trusses wouldn't be such a big deal IF the walls were paralell, but of course they're not. So what ends up happening, geometrically, is you have this constantly varying pitch as the wall goes across the ceiling at an angle.
So, what's the best way to frame that?
I was thinking of just using a plumb bob at each end of the wall segment, to find its place on the ceiling. But if the wall end falls between trusses, then you have no place, except a plain in space to measure from.
So, how best to overcome this?
I could finish out the ceiling and THEN extend the walls. Probably not the BEST idea, because ceiling would be contiguous, and most likely not aid in isolation from room to room.
Or, I could put up a piece of "temporary" ceiling; you know, tack up a piece of OSB to have a soild plain from which to measure, frame up the extention (allowing for the OSB thickness) and place that whole extention up there, then sheetrock as normal.
What do you guys think?
The trusses are a scissors truss which gives a "vaulted" type of ceiling.
Extending the walls up to the trusses wouldn't be such a big deal IF the walls were paralell, but of course they're not. So what ends up happening, geometrically, is you have this constantly varying pitch as the wall goes across the ceiling at an angle.
So, what's the best way to frame that?
I was thinking of just using a plumb bob at each end of the wall segment, to find its place on the ceiling. But if the wall end falls between trusses, then you have no place, except a plain in space to measure from.
So, how best to overcome this?
I could finish out the ceiling and THEN extend the walls. Probably not the BEST idea, because ceiling would be contiguous, and most likely not aid in isolation from room to room.
Or, I could put up a piece of "temporary" ceiling; you know, tack up a piece of OSB to have a soild plain from which to measure, frame up the extention (allowing for the OSB thickness) and place that whole extention up there, then sheetrock as normal.
What do you guys think?