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Are the joists part of the Roofs structural integrity?

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.33 PM

In the back bedroom I am just pulling down the plasterboard off the ceiling joists. It is an outcrop off the back of the house so the pitched roof covers the width of the room but not part of the wider roof of the main house. The home is a circa 1900 liverpool terrace. My question is are these part of the structural integrity of the roof? or just there to allow the ceiling plasterboard to hung from? As I see this, I would love to have a pitched ceiling in the room - but the joists are close together and will ruin this look. Obviously I am not keen to move them if the roof structure will be affected!

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Huddersfield Property Repairs and Renovations

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Huddersfield

Hi there yes DO NOT move or take out or chop down these joists as they are the support for 80 percent of your roof and these joists will be attached to tile battens and they are attached to the roof tiles

Answered13 November 2017

ADR Property Maintenance

Rating: 5 out of 5

Boston

They are their to stop your roof spreading and as such are an integral part of the roof structure do not remove them, Good luck alex

Answered13 November 2017