Raising the roof of a cape cod?

[fryjack2]

I don't like slanted ceilings that make 1/3 of a room essentially unusable.   I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but has anyone essentially raised the roof height to raise the indoor wall height on a cape style home? 

[2curlydogs]

The technical term is dormer.

I haven't done it but a friend did - I believe they were gable dormers.

www.angieslist.com/articles/dormer-additions-raise-roof.htm

[fryjack2]

Feb 5, 2018 17:15:23 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

The technical term is dormer.

I haven't done it but a friend did - I believe they were gable dormers.

www.angieslist.com/articles/dormer-additions-raise-roof.htm

Oh! Thanks! I haven't been in this home yet ( not on the market yet, our agent sent us the pre-listing) but it has gables already so maybe the ceilings won't be so slanted after all.   

[penguingrrl]

It’s called dormering. We were planning to buy my mother’s house from her and do that and it turned out to be cost prohibitive, FYI. Dormering front and back and redoing the upstairs was estimated at $200K with mid grade materials. That was for a house where the main floor is between 800 and 900 square feet for referenc.

[tres3]

We did. We basically raised the roof on 1/2 of it and then did a shed dormer out the back for another room. It turned out really well and gave us much more usable space upstairs. It is not cheap though.

the basic shed dormer was only 12k but the raising the roof on the other 1/2 of the house was probably well over $100k

[dr.girlfriend]

Wow. For comparison's sake, we are looking at adding a 600-ish foot ground floor addition (master bedroom/bathroom/laundry) on the side of our Cape where our garage is now, and our contractor is estimating it can be done for under $125k. That's with new roof on both structures and new wood flooring on the ground floor of both structures, in a relatively HCOL.

[tres3]

Feb 7, 2018 13:58:11 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

Wow. For comparison's sake, we are looking at adding a 600-ish foot ground floor addition (master bedroom/bathroom/laundry) on the side of our Cape where our garage is now, and our contractor is estimating it can be done for under $125k. That's with new roof on both structures and new wood flooring on the ground floor of both structures, in a relatively HCOL.

That 100k included creating 2 bedrooms, a full bathroom, moving laundry room to 2d floor along with redoing an existing bath upstairs. We probably gained about 600-700 sq ft.  Houses in our hood are going for over $300/sq ft so it was a good return. 

[tres3]

Feb 5, 2018 17:01:42 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I don't like slanted ceilings that make 1/3 of a room essentially unusable.   I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but has anyone essentially raised the roof height to raise the indoor wall height on a cape style home? 

if you want to see what we did it will be on HGTV on Monday 1:30/eastern 12:30 central. 

[mmp]

Feb 17, 2018 10:07:41 GMT -5 tres3 said:

Feb 5, 2018 17:01:42 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I don't like slanted ceilings that make 1/3 of a room essentially unusable.   I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but has anyone essentially raised the roof height to raise the indoor wall height on a cape style home? 

if you want to see what we did it will be on HGTV on Monday 1:30/eastern 12:30 central. 

Get out! I’m watching this right now!!!

[tres3]

Feb 19, 2018 13:34:35 GMT -5 mmp said:

Feb 17, 2018 10:07:41 GMT -5 tres3 said:

if you want to see what we did it will be on HGTV on Monday 1:30/eastern 12:30 central. 

Get out! I’m watching this right now!!!

Now I can finally show pictures online   . It was supposed to air last fall. 

[mrsukyankee]

tres3, definitely want to see pics (as I can't see it over here).

[msn06]

I'm watching it now. Love on demand.

[dr.girlfriend]

I missed it! I'll look on Demand! Which episode of which show? And please post pics!  And also, my "wow" was at the post before yours, where their estimate was $200k just to dormer front and back, in comparison to my estimate being half that to build a whole addition.  Didn't mean to imply that yours wasn't money well spent.

[tres3]

Here's the before:





The After

[karinothing]

Feb 19, 2018 19:33:18 GMT -5 msn06 said:

I'm watching it now. Love on demand.

What provider do you have? I couldn't find it on Verizon Fios

[mmp]

Feb 19, 2018 14:31:14 GMT -5 tres3 said:

Feb 19, 2018 13:34:35 GMT -5 mmp said:

Get out! I’m watching this right now!!!

Now I can finally show pictures online   . It was supposed to air last fall. 

They did a great job. Enjoy your beautiful house!

[tres3]

Feb 20, 2018 16:00:17 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

That looks really lovely, tres3 .

I've never heard of this show but what was the experience like? Whatever you can tell us without violating an NDA of course.

1) while it seemed like it took forever to renovate.. it was really pretty fast once we had the permits. We were in the house in under 6 mos after we had permits. My friend doing a similar renovation took 14 mos. 

2) We had a general idea of what we wanted to do design wise and floor plan but they were really good with the detail. I love our kitchen backsplash and left on my own I would have never picked it.. same with the navy blue bathroom tile. 

We literally gutted the whole house and they didn't show all the remade rooms. Upstairs has three bedrooms and two baths but they only showed the two bedrooms and bath on the left side of the house.. the other side of the house we added gable dormers on the front of the house and a shed dormer on the rear to make a HUGE bedroom... it is almost a 2d master (The room is actually bigger than the master).  We also redid the bathroom attached to that room and I love that bathroom. It is a huge walk in shower with no tub. 

We also redid the basement. In the basement there is storage, a garage, a wine cellar, a big bonus room and my favorite... a mudroom with urinal. 

[whitemerlot]

I watched this episode! So cool! Did they help you pick the house, or was it actually decided in advance?

[tres3]

Feb 20, 2018 16:58:35 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Are there any financial perks to being on the show? Like are the design services free? Did you apply to be on the show before starting any work or did they find you somehow after you'd started?

We applied the day we closed on our house just for giggles and they called about 20 minutes later.  There are benefits like the design services and the abbreviated schedule for the contractor getting it all done. 

[tres3]

Feb 20, 2018 18:08:20 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Wow, that was some quick turn around. I'd love some free design services. Too bad none of these shows are in the Boston area (though I'm glad I don't qualify for "This Old House" ).

I did Ask This Old House when I lived in Boston which was great because I got a desperately needed french drain and it only took a day of filming. 

[fryjack2]

Feb 20, 2018 18:08:20 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Wow, that was some quick turn around. I'd love some free design services. Too bad none of these shows are in the Boston area (though I'm glad I don't qualify for "This Old House" ).

There are! 

There was a casting call this past fall for people who were going to renovate their home in the Boston area.  I emailed them and they told us to write back when we had a closing date.  

Check the website

[fryjack2]

Feb 17, 2018 10:07:41 GMT -5 tres3 said:

Feb 5, 2018 17:01:42 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I don't like slanted ceilings that make 1/3 of a room essentially unusable.   I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but has anyone essentially raised the roof height to raise the indoor wall height on a cape style home? 

if you want to see what we did it will be on HGTV on Monday 1:30/eastern 12:30 central. 

I missed this!! 

The pictures look awesome! 

[karinothing]

Feb 21, 2018 10:57:30 GMT -5 cubed said:

tres3 , I am so mad that I can't get the show On Demand. I even tried to look it up online. Waaaaaaah. Your project is a much bigger version of what we would like to do to our home and I wanna see pics! lol.

amazon! For $1.99.

[muldoon]

Feb 17, 2018 10:07:41 GMT -5 tres3 said:

Feb 5, 2018 17:01:42 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I don't like slanted ceilings that make 1/3 of a room essentially unusable.   I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but has anyone essentially raised the roof height to raise the indoor wall height on a cape style home? 

if you want to see what we did it will be on HGTV on Monday 1:30/eastern 12:30 central. 

tres3 What show was this on HGTV?