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A&E's House

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So it's never to early to start planning so I want to hear thoughts, ideas, recommendations, etc about our (hopefully) new place and planned upstairs master suite addition.

I am strongly leaning floor trusses at the moment to make mechanical work faster so I can dry the place in as quickly as possible.

Blown in fiberglass walls and vaulted ceilings.

Malarkey Legacy shingles
Oxford grey or storm grey

Keeping the white siding, adding black corner posts, black freiz boards, black facia, and white drip edge.

Where I will need to carry load down in the crawlspace, would footings on grade be ok or should I dig holes for the footings?

Should I screw the ceilings to the new floor trusses or will attaching the remaining chords of the roof trusses to the new trusses be sufficent?

Anyway, that is enough to start with I guess I am meeting with a customer of mine who is an architect and owes me a drawing sometime this week. (Needed to shave a few bucks off a project for him so we made a trade off for $750 to get it into budget, right now I am quite pleased with myself for being so creative...lol)


For those who missed it....current floorplan.

Proposed addition


Current attic space
 
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So. Floor system question. To achieve my cantilevered rear portion of the addition I have 2 -18" 3 ply LVL beams spanning from the center point of the overall span back on each exterior wall.

Would you go through the trouble of dropping the beam 6" or trim your studs on that part of the addition the 6" difference as my TGI's are 11-7/8" ?
 
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The whole upstairs is new. If I drop my beams, I have to cut 6" of half the studs in a gable wall and into a 4' window header, and recess the beam into the kitchen...not really a big deal on that end but....

If I cut the 6" off the studs and set my walls on top of the beams, I could avoid all that extra hassle
 
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