GSCDesign Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Drawing a plan with one car garage on left side house on right side is 2 stories. top of garage concrete walls and slab will sit about 4' above the first floor of house section on right. Tall concrete wall that separates the 2 structures will be 7' and match the height of garage stem wall. other 3 walls on right side of house will be 3' with the floor hanging off of that. The floor would hang off of bolted ledger off the middle separating wall. I have tried everything and I can't get the floor to sit down inside that tall wall, it just keeps wanting to hang off the tall separating wall. I have tried dropping floor heights and everything. I was able to manually adjust the concrete walls but cannot get the framing to cooperate. Anyone that could help would be really wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiAngelo Posted 31 minutes ago Share Posted 31 minutes ago A cross section would be nice. But from what is described you have a balloon framing situation. A floor above and below but instead of joists resting on a lower wall, you want it to balloon past the floor and make both the upper and lower walls framed as one. It is still two floors. Open the structure dbx and you will find options to change the framing methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSCDesign Posted 19 minutes ago Author Share Posted 19 minutes ago Sorry new to this forum and how to do stuff on here. Yes I guess it would be considered a balloon frame. But to be clear I want the joists to hang off the taller wall that is separating the two sections about 4' down on it (7' wall). And also hang off the other 3 walls that will be 3' tall. On top of the taller wall the studs will continue up to make a normal 9' ceiling. the second floor joists will sit on that wall. I will build a interior wall with an air gap off of the first floor to hide the concrete wall and then second floor will be normal. I just don't know how to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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