I'm sure we have some structural engineers on the forum might could steer me. I have a detached garage and ceilings are 9' tall. I'm tired of not having a lift and would like to raise just a portion of the roof up at least 3 ft. (Like a pocket in the ceiling I guess you'd call it, or a tray ceiling?) I got a quote from a company that primarily removes load bearing walls and he said it would need an engineered beam down the center of the garage and a beam to replace the garage door header. Quoted me $11,500. I'm in the medical field so I know nothing about this but I just wasn't expecting it to be that costly. The attached pics are when it was built, unfortunately, I only took one of the framing but if you look at the framing pic, you can see that beam going down the center of the garage, perpendicular to the door opening. I want the pocket built on the left side of the garage if you're looking head on at the door opening. Any input or advice or is this going to be cost prohibitive?
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