Schallinger
2021-07-24 13:27:43
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(first of all thanks to 11ant)
We can purchase a single-family house from 1960 cheaply, living area 106 sqm. It has a purlin roof with a knee wall in the 1st floor. Solid construction.
"Problems":
- Bathroom on 1st floor too small, only has a bathtub, no shower. (would be important to us, would fit in if the knee wall is removed/extension added)
- 1st floor "only" 2 (large!) bedrooms, which could become 3 small ones by room partition (with extension: slight increase in living space)
- Poor/no insulation of the roof in the area of the knee wall (--> living rooms 1st floor: very warm in summer, heat loss in winter)
--> ergo: roof should be removed and newly insulated and re-roofed anyway, possibly combined with "living space increase" through extension
Has anyone done this? Remove roof covering, dismantle roof truss, (remove knee wall), build up 1m outside wall, new roof with appropriate insulation? Is this sensible for a 60-year-old house if the condition is otherwise solid? Which structural problems could arise due to the knee wall/the new outer wall? What problems can occur during implementation? In what range can the costs be? (yes, it varies nationwide, I know. But more like 80k or rather 150k?)
Attached is a side view (drawings not to scale, but approximate, to illustrate my question again; red = current "knee wall", green = extension masonry and new roof). Many thanks and have a nice Saturday.

We can purchase a single-family house from 1960 cheaply, living area 106 sqm. It has a purlin roof with a knee wall in the 1st floor. Solid construction.
"Problems":
- Bathroom on 1st floor too small, only has a bathtub, no shower. (would be important to us, would fit in if the knee wall is removed/extension added)
- 1st floor "only" 2 (large!) bedrooms, which could become 3 small ones by room partition (with extension: slight increase in living space)
- Poor/no insulation of the roof in the area of the knee wall (--> living rooms 1st floor: very warm in summer, heat loss in winter)
--> ergo: roof should be removed and newly insulated and re-roofed anyway, possibly combined with "living space increase" through extension
Has anyone done this? Remove roof covering, dismantle roof truss, (remove knee wall), build up 1m outside wall, new roof with appropriate insulation? Is this sensible for a 60-year-old house if the condition is otherwise solid? Which structural problems could arise due to the knee wall/the new outer wall? What problems can occur during implementation? In what range can the costs be? (yes, it varies nationwide, I know. But more like 80k or rather 150k?)
Attached is a side view (drawings not to scale, but approximate, to illustrate my question again; red = current "knee wall", green = extension masonry and new roof). Many thanks and have a nice Saturday.