Do you think that removing the ceiling joists for the living room would require a ridge beam and/or additional support on the exterior wall with the picture window?
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Hi y’all, I am thinking to open up my ceiling to convert our living room into cathedral ceiling. I plan to have an engineer come in to do some proper analysis of my roof structure, and what alterations are possible/may be necessary, but before I do I just wanted to get a sense of how feasible this project would actually be. A quick layout of the situation: we have a small 1200sqft 30x40ft 1960s house with a single living floor. We have three bedrooms in a row on one half of the house (basical...
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Originally published on March 24, 2026.
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