I have had three thoughts on this.
Knee wall to raise roof.
The jacks should allow you to raise the roof a couple of inches at a time while the cripples you attached to the top plate and short studs will help keep the roof in place.
The knee wall forms the wall of the attic room and it also creates an enclosed space under the eaves behind the wall.
As long as we ve got that crane on site let s take the roof up a little more enough to add an entire second floor.
A knee wall on top of the.
A truss framed roof on the other hand doesn t have any attic space to expand you re probably going to have to raise a truss framed roof to get more space.
Attic knee wall an attic knee wall is a short wall that extends from the floor of an attic room to the roof rafters.
Another method is covering the existing wall and new knee wall with full height plywood sheathing to eliminate the hinge.
This wall can be higher for example if covering a.
A knee wall a short wall usually built approximately to a height of the human knee is constructed to raise the new roof over the existing one.
Adding a second floor.
Studs or a mini wall or as second choice put in a block knee wall.
1 knock down the whole darn house since all we are saving is less than 200 lf of exterior wall all interior walls are being removed and the roof is being taken off and existing window and door locations are all changed.
So the challenge is to how to raise the existing plate height to 10 or near 10.