It is more expensive though.
Attic vaulted ceiling.
If your home is a modest size single story tract home with standard 8 foot ceilings it s an ideal candidate for vaulting a ceiling.
As much as regular attic ventilation is an important part of your house maintenance routine and usually easy to perform cathedral ceiling ventilation maintenance might be difficult or even impossible to do.
The basic framing construction cost can increase by 5 to 20 percent in a home with a large 20 x 20 foot great room with a vaulted ceiling.
First head to the attic.
A vaulted ceiling in one part of your house may create an attic space elsewhere that s isolated from the rest of the attic.
You ll pay 18 000 to 25 000.
Depending on how steep your roof pitch is vaulting a 20 by 20 foot room creates a new ceiling that s 11 to 12 feet high at its peak.
How to vault a ceiling.
The new attic plan needs to provide access to each part of the attic.
You ll have to remove the entire roof structure to vault the ceilings.
But if it s framed traditionally with big lumber rafters the roof can stay in place.
A vaulted ceiling in new construction is no more complicated than standard framing although it does require special roof trusses which are usually built off site.
Depending on your house interior and roof framing design cathedral ceiling ventilation can be treated as an independent or attic ventilation related condition.
Steeper roof pitches are necessary for higher vaults.