Recent content by kalawn

You go the full length so you have bearing on the walls. The knee wall is not required if you do the hoist this way.

My experience with older homes like yours is that they used 2x6 ceiling house up to 18 +feet. I have done a couple things to stiffen the floor up to usable living space loads. 1-- Build a knee wall nailing the studs to the side of the rafters down to the side of the ceiling joist. 2--widen the...