How would you recommend I step the top of a wall?
I am working on a plan where the second floor extends out of the garage. I have determined the appropriate wall height to support the open web floor trusses for this area of the second floor. However, I would like to make the walls taller in the remaining part of the garage that does not have a floor system above it. Of course I have adjusted all of my remaining walls to their new height. The problem arises over top of one of my overhead garage doors. The stepped top of wall has to happen over the middle of my overhead door opening, when you split a wall to have multiple heights, it essentially creates multiple walls. However, an opening cannot span between to different wall sections. One work around would be to draw a second shorter wall over top of the door that starts at the top elevation of my shorter garage walls to create a step in this area, is there a cleaner way that anyone else can recommend?
Thanks.