If your house becomes rather small over time, you have fine opportunity to expand its area by means of construction of the second floor. However at construction of similar design, it is necessary to follow certain rules strictly:
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1. Decide on your financial opportunities and also on design features of your house. If roof at your house small, and you like to expand significantly living space, construction should be begun with demolition of old roof. If she is rather great, you can just gain the necessary amount of construction materials and finish the attic under one more living room. If you after all have decided to begin construction with demolition of old roof, in advance prepare building materials for construction of the second floor and roofing materials for creation of temporary roof for the first floor as the first rain can great spoil your dwelling.
2. Try to remove roof from building basis with the minimum quantity of damages. Keep as much as possible building materials for construction of new. It will allow to cut down considerably costs and to avoid vain loss of your property.
3. Having removed roof, begin to establish supporting girders. It is future support for your second floor. Having finished with it, lay floor plywood sheets and consider that business is already half finished.
4. The rest of this case differs from construction of the normal house a little. Determine height of future ceilings and the place for placement of wooden columns columns on which you will establish roof and then start creation of walls.
5. Finish construction of the main part of the building, then build roof, divide the turned-out second floor into rooms and be engaged in interior finish of the room. Lay floor linoleum or other covering, choose finishing materials for walls and ceiling.
6. Remember that it is necessary to build new roof on the building. Only in this case the turned-out design will be the most reliable and safe. Work with the assistance of several assistants will move much quicker than if to work alone therefore it is better not to save on hiring of skilled workers.