Good evening!
I am facing a challenge to fix an upper floor with a sloped ceiling. It is open up to the ridge, except for the collar beams, and there is paneling on the sloped ceiling itself. My problem is that I am going to make a storage/closet against one of the roof slopes and wonder how to best do this with metal studs. If it were wooden studs, it would be easy to angle-cut them, but I wonder how to adjust the roof slope against the metal track that will act as the top plate. To clarify, the long side's top plate will cross the roof trusses. Can you just plumb down the track's "walls" and angle-cut the metal studs? Then I wondered if any sill insulation would be needed? Now the floor is torn up down to the hardboard, which in turn lies on tongue and groove, I'd prefer not to start tearing up the floor to reinforce it. Is it enough to screw the tracks onto the tongue and groove? Same question regarding the ceiling, is it enough to attach to the paneling? These walls are not supposed to be subjected to any extreme stress, but it's more the roof slope that creates question marks about the work.
I apologize for my tired post, but thanks in advance!
I am facing a challenge to fix an upper floor with a sloped ceiling. It is open up to the ridge, except for the collar beams, and there is paneling on the sloped ceiling itself. My problem is that I am going to make a storage/closet against one of the roof slopes and wonder how to best do this with metal studs. If it were wooden studs, it would be easy to angle-cut them, but I wonder how to adjust the roof slope against the metal track that will act as the top plate. To clarify, the long side's top plate will cross the roof trusses. Can you just plumb down the track's "walls" and angle-cut the metal studs? Then I wondered if any sill insulation would be needed? Now the floor is torn up down to the hardboard, which in turn lies on tongue and groove, I'd prefer not to start tearing up the floor to reinforce it. Is it enough to screw the tracks onto the tongue and groove? Same question regarding the ceiling, is it enough to attach to the paneling? These walls are not supposed to be subjected to any extreme stress, but it's more the roof slope that creates question marks about the work.
I apologize for my tired post, but thanks in advance!
Great! That's one problem solved, but is it okay to attach the walls to the type of floor I described without any reinforcement?Matti_75 said: