I spoke with a man today who would like to make a barn into a house. One of the ideas discussed in our meeting was to raise the sidewall hieght by using short(3') stick-frame walls on top of the existing barn wall plate(the wall plate currently sits 15' above the barn floor, crossbeams are at 10').
These same stick frame walls would support "standard" gang-nail roof trusses.
I imagine there will be at least two interior partition walls upstairs to give lateral support to the short stick-frame walls.
Has anyone tried raising sidewalls using this method(or anything similar) before?
Keeping costs down are a priority for this job.
Thanks in advance,
-Mark in Ontario.