First high open space without knee wall

  • Erstellt am 2021-01-13 18:39:23

seniordingdong

2021-01-14 10:20:51
  • #1
Yes, this tube-like shape is exactly our concern. The rooms are 4.50 m high and just over 4 m wide. Difficult to assess without having seen it beforehand.
 

ypg

2021-01-14 15:11:26
  • #2
Why don't you draw the section for yourself? With graph paper and a set square, it's quick to do.
 

11ant

2021-01-14 15:31:14
  • #3

??? - and why do you then say that you are explicitly looking for examples WITHOUT knee wall???
 

Deadree

2021-01-14 15:42:38
  • #4


I thought a knee wall only exists if the roof starts below the "standard" ceiling height. (Yes, there are differences there as well.) So the living space is reduced by the roof.

That this is wrong, I learned in this thread. The OP must have misunderstood it just like I did :)
 

Steffi33

2021-01-14 16:15:01
  • #5
Oh, now I get it...
Our previous house had exactly those two children's rooms.. highest point almost 5 meters! I thought it was great.. In one of the rooms we built a wide loft bed.. you could still stand up on top. The larger children's room was about 4 x 4.60 meters. Maybe the pictures will help you..

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11ant

2021-01-14 17:41:33
  • #6
No, a knee wall refers to the opposite: not pulling the hat deeper into the face and, with a roughly shorter-cut gable, pulling the roof slope into the upper floor, making it an attic — but rather, raising the ceiling joists to make the attic more like a full-height upper floor. From the room’s perspective, a knee wall is somewhat a "dwarf wall by other means." There are regions where one of the two methods is traditionally preferred and the other is so insignificantly rare that the terms for the actual "opposites" are used as synonyms. That often leads to confusion when knee wall is said but dwarf wall is meant, or vice versa — I’m used to that. But your misinterpretation of the knee wall as a term for lowering instead of raising was new to me. Thanks for that — I always like to learn new misunderstandings from lay vocabulary ;-)
 

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