It also blocks off the space that s too small due to the sloping roof to use for anything in an attic.
Roof add on with knee wall.
There are two ways to create a cape cod style house.
A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high thats used to support rafters in the roof.
Four in the lower eave which is the floor of the knee wall space and four in the eave of the second floor along with a ridge vent to be installed with a new roof coming in a month or so.
With the roof sitting directly on top of the 1st story walls or with the roof sitting on knee walls a set distance above the second story floor.
My calculations call for me to add 2 more soffit vents in order to balance the system 6 if i want to go 60 40 intake outtake.
David your description leads me to believe the joists are ceiling joists and not floor joists in the attic.
Once installed they ll support some of the weight from the rafters.
Once the roof is complete they may take the knee walls down or leave them up.
An attic knee wall is a short wall that extends from the floor of an attic room to the roof rafters.
For the purposes of this example both techniques start with a 30 x 40 building.
It s not uncommon for builders to place them up against the rafters while working on the roof.
If the knee wall is longer than the maximum 16 feet of a 2 by 4 create a longer wall by butt jointing a pair of top plates on top of a stud and butt jointing the bottom plate on a different stud.
I currently have 8 soffit vents.
The knee wall forms the wall of the attic room and it also creates an enclosed space under the eaves behind the wall.
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Knee wall to support rafters.
Then you must be sure the rafters are properly sized for the new span.