Weirdly raised room advice


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Old 03-23-23, 12:28 PM
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Weirdly raised room advice

So this has been bugging me since we moved into our fixer upper, there is a room under the main roof, which has a concrete slab on all 4 sides, yet the room is raised 36ft up in the air, with a dirt floored plastic covered vented space underneath ( no access to it though ) one vent is on the passageway side in the house and 2 vents outside.
it would make the room so much easier to use and incorporate into the house space if it was not up 4 steps, do you think it is possible to open it up and put a concrete floor in there or at least lower the floor height?
the room is approx 9x10ft

outside 2 vents

inside and passageway to the steps into the room

room steps

view through vent blocks from inside the house
 
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Old 03-23-23, 01:13 PM
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Yes, anything is possible. All it takes is money...

It looks like the walls bordering the raised area have their own foundation walls & hopefully proper footers underneath. That should make it easy to remove the raised floor while leaving the walls in place. Then you can remove however much dirt is needed to allow pouring concrete to match the other, adjoining rooms.
 
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Old 03-23-23, 02:02 PM
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I was hoping that was the answer thank you.
 
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Old 03-23-23, 04:45 PM
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Are the ceiling joists in this room at the same elevation as the ceiling joists in the remainder of the house? A photo of how this room connects to the rest of house and roof would help.
 
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Old 03-23-23, 05:55 PM
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Yes the ceiling is the same height as the rest of the whole house, the main body of the house sits on the same level as this, connected by a passage, but the one side of the house is down on the same level where this is, but this then is oddly raised.
 
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Old 03-23-23, 05:58 PM
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The main body of the house has 7'6 ceilings apart form the vaulted living room. the extended part of the house where this is located has much higher ceiling, ( approx 9.5ft, i have not measured exactly) apart from this room which has a lower ceiling.

id just like to have not to go up steps to get in.
 
 

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