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Originally Posted by Heybuck

I'm just vacillating over this myself. I have a 25 x 40 solid brick garage with a miserable 8'6" ceiling height inside.

Shallow pitched roof with colourbond corrugated iron roof sitting on preformed trusses.

Thoughts on this are to simply dismantle the roof pulling the sheets of iron off first, then take down the trusses. On top of the brick walls we build a 5' 6" stud wall, then set the trusses back on top, re-roof it using the same steel.

Over here, the "modern" way to build a 2 storey house is a brick base wall construction and a stud wall up top which is clad with a polystyrene hard foam sheet which is then rendered over and painted. Now as a house construction I think its crazy but I'm starting to think this is going to be a fairly economical way to get the internal head height I need.

Maybe its something you could consider yourself

I would think with solid brick walls adding to the top would be the way to go. What are people thinking when they put in low ceilings? LOL