baunewbiene
2015-01-16 16:36:10
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Hello everyone,
I have an important question:
We want to build a second upper floor (attic) for our planned single-family house.
Now to the problem: Actually, everywhere you only see houses whose ridge runs along the longer side of the house. But according to our planning, it would be exactly the other way around.
Our house would be about 10 x 8 meters, with the longest side running from north to south. Now it is so that we have a field edge location to the east (more precisely southeast, but I write east because it is easier to imagine) and then only fields follow. Therefore, I would like to orient the bedroom, which is on the second upper floor, towards the east, meaning also having the largest windows there (nice view of nature from the bed). But that would require that the roof ridge does not run from north to south, but from east to west, so that large windows can be installed on the main wall of the house on the 2nd upper floor (and also the stairs can be sensibly placed).
Now my question: What speaks against a roof ridge that runs along the shorter side of the house (that means in our case from east to west)? Why do you never see something like that? Is it much more expensive? Or simply not practical?
Sorry, I am totally inexperienced and am asking myself this question...
Thanks for your answers.
baunewbiene
I have an important question:
We want to build a second upper floor (attic) for our planned single-family house.
Now to the problem: Actually, everywhere you only see houses whose ridge runs along the longer side of the house. But according to our planning, it would be exactly the other way around.
Our house would be about 10 x 8 meters, with the longest side running from north to south. Now it is so that we have a field edge location to the east (more precisely southeast, but I write east because it is easier to imagine) and then only fields follow. Therefore, I would like to orient the bedroom, which is on the second upper floor, towards the east, meaning also having the largest windows there (nice view of nature from the bed). But that would require that the roof ridge does not run from north to south, but from east to west, so that large windows can be installed on the main wall of the house on the 2nd upper floor (and also the stairs can be sensibly placed).
Now my question: What speaks against a roof ridge that runs along the shorter side of the house (that means in our case from east to west)? Why do you never see something like that? Is it much more expensive? Or simply not practical?
Sorry, I am totally inexperienced and am asking myself this question...
Thanks for your answers.
baunewbiene