Most of the time when I crawl up into the attic I either find a lot of storage or I find just the usual stuff like a furnace, insulation, air ducts, etc.
At a recent inspection out in the boondocks, I came across the mostest unusual, mostest uniquest attic I have ever been in.
Now keep in mind that I was out in the boondocks, and I can tell you that it gets very hot out in the boondocks, so it's not surprising to find extra insulation in the attic, extra ventilation, etc.
Looks as if they installed a truss roof over the existing roof which is okay as long as they provided adequate ventilation and have the truss chords properly supported...
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Russel, looks like they built an addition over an existing roof. We did that to a home I owned, doing a reverse pitch to add a gable on the lakeside of the home. It was awesome!
I agree with many of the commenters above: it looks like they built over an existing roof, Russel. Those look like roofing tiles on the "floor" of the "attic". It's the mostest uniquest attic I've seen, too.
It looks like it was built over a shingle roof, and one in pretty good condition, too. Of course, once they built the attic, there wouldn't be a lot of wear on the roof :) Is there a vent fan at the end there as well??
Hey, Gita - Is the attic where you send your kids when they are bad? Or good? LOL
Hey, Jim - That's what they did. The reason why they did this is because out in the boondocks where it can easily reach 110° on a normal summer day, the original composition shingles and the small attic probably resulted in higher cooling bills. In this case, they went to concrete tiles, which have a much better insulating capacity than composition shingles. However, concrete tiles are much heavier. So they had a choice of tearing down and rebuilding the original roof, or just installing new trusses to create a new roof that could carry the weight of the concrete tiles. I'm sure this was the less expensive route, and the extra space between the new roof and the old roof provides extra insulating capacity as well.
Hey, Michael - It was actually one of the better roof installations I've seen here in San Diego. Someone knew what they were doing.
Hey, Lenn - So you've been down here to see our Southern California attics, huh? They often look like our garages.
Hey, Cheryl - Now, now, I don't think it was a mother-in-law suite! LOL
Hey, Andrea - See my third comment above to Jim.
Hey, Caren - They did this one in order to switch from composition asphalt shingles to concrete tiles, providing better insulation capacity out in the hot boondocks.
Hey, Chanda - They had good ventilation so that they didn't trap the hot air, but the extra space in the attic does provide for better insulation.
Hey, Joseph - Now, now. You and Cheryl might need to join MILA - Mothers-in-Laws Anonymous.
Hey, Irene - For what they did here, it was actually the least expensive and least time-consuming way to do this.
Hey, Heather - It's just composition asphalt shingles on the floor of the attic, which is why they did what they did because they switched to concrete tiles.
Hey, Shoshana - They had soffit vents and lots of turbine vents. Very good ventilation.
Home building is certainly local. Concrete tiles on a new roof for cooling never would have occured here. It makes sense once you explain, but I never would have figured out why.
Interesting approach - I was going to guess - roof over roof with a brick floor to the attic... That is different a new one - but luckily I don't go in too many attics.
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Most of the time when I crawl up into the attic I either find a lot of storage or I find just the usual stuff like a furnace, insulation, air ducts, etc.
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Hey Russel, it looks like they put down a tile floor.