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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreman" data-source="post: 539940" data-attributes="member: 61303">Marsha, I was a P.E. in Tennessee.  I am getting the paperwork together to get my registration in Texas.  I have designed hundreds of steel and aluminum buildings in my career.  I have designed wood structures, but that was a long time ago, and "acceptable practice" may have changed.  Right now I will tell you that you don't want to do that until or unless a local P.E. has signed off on it.   There are too many variables (what type of wood, is everything tied together right, local snow load, wind load, floor load, etc.) to make a judgement call like that when doing something to the house that might make it fall down.  There are local codes that need to be taken into account to make sure the insurance on the house will cover any damages if something happens, either related to this or not.  If an insurance adjuster sees structural modifications and you don't have paperwork to back it up, they can refuse to pay for all sorts of things that seem to be totally unrelated to the modifications you made.  A couple of hundred for a P.E. stamp on a redesign is cheap insurance.</blockquote>