Hi! New to the forum and researching my own sim room.
Here is my situation. I have a large basement with 9' ceilings in which I'd love to build a sim room. However, I'm 5'11" and I took my driver down there - standing on an unfinished floor with my driver, I will hit the ceiling with my follow through (and it will be worse on a 2" hitting mat). There is definitely no option for digging down deeper into the foundation (it's a post tension slab with cables going through it).
Which got me thinking, what about increasing height?...The joists in the ceiling run in the same direction I would be hitting. If I had a raised "tray ceiling" in the area only above my hitting mat, maybe about 3-5' wide and maybe 8' long, it would probably make my swing doable. My thought was if I could raise the tray up 8" or so, it would give me enough height just in that area. Here is my crazy idea: I was wondering if I could replace 2-3 of the existing 12" tall engineered I-joists with some sort "low profile" joist (I was googling around and found some metal I joists that were 3" high). Anyone have any thoughts on whether this is feasible before I go down the crazy bath of enlisting the help of a structural engineer/architect?
Thanks!!
Here is my situation. I have a large basement with 9' ceilings in which I'd love to build a sim room. However, I'm 5'11" and I took my driver down there - standing on an unfinished floor with my driver, I will hit the ceiling with my follow through (and it will be worse on a 2" hitting mat). There is definitely no option for digging down deeper into the foundation (it's a post tension slab with cables going through it).
Which got me thinking, what about increasing height?...The joists in the ceiling run in the same direction I would be hitting. If I had a raised "tray ceiling" in the area only above my hitting mat, maybe about 3-5' wide and maybe 8' long, it would probably make my swing doable. My thought was if I could raise the tray up 8" or so, it would give me enough height just in that area. Here is my crazy idea: I was wondering if I could replace 2-3 of the existing 12" tall engineered I-joists with some sort "low profile" joist (I was googling around and found some metal I joists that were 3" high). Anyone have any thoughts on whether this is feasible before I go down the crazy bath of enlisting the help of a structural engineer/architect?
Thanks!!
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