Full floors in the timber-framed house with a 53-degree roof pitch.

Adjustments according to our

Are you Jessy?

Normally, self-builders adapt to the consumers and offer single-story houses, provided gable roofs or similar. With half-timbered houses, there is apparently no two-story option, or no one wants to build one. Therefore, I think the house with 53 degrees is already intended for single-story construction.

So I think the provider would fulfill any wish of ours and adapt the house according to our B plan. That would be no problem at all. We were simply concerned with this exact show house in terms of appearance, as we already liked it very much.

You wrote "no bay windows etcetera" - I referred the etcetera to no Frisian gables either, because otherwise, in my opinion, the risk of a full story would definitely be given. If you would have liked the show house only with one like that, consider, without >50° roof pitch looks completely different. And with a knee wall, it would really be too much (not only visually, but also because of the full story direction). You can safely name the provider and the location of the show house here, then we can take a look ourselves.

Exactly, no bay windows, dormers, etc., just a gable roof and the house.

So the show house and the provider we really liked is DLK Landhaus Klassiker. And the show house is located in Melle. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to name names.

So the show house and the provider we really liked is DLK Landhaus Klassiker. And the show house is located in Melle. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to mention names.

I consider the provider to be recommendable, and the houses well-designed. It looks to me like it’s without knee wall. I could imagine a dwarf wall (basically like a knee wall turned inward, which is why the terms are often mixed up) there, if you only want to avoid the dirty corner at the foot of the roof slope.

You are allowed to mention names here – there is only a specific moderated section in case someone wants to say something "negative" about a company, which must then of course be verifiable. And external links are not desired here, but mentioning the name of a provider (without judgment) is not an issue.

Thank you very much! I just realized that I also had the terms Kniestock and Drempel wrong. I have now read some explanations.

I have one or two short final questions. I have definitely already been helped a lot.

1. Does the construction of a Drempel have an impact on the number of storeys? I now guess no. A Drempel would be absolutely necessary anyway in order not to have a wall tapering to a point. Extremely impractical.

2. Can the expansion of the attic/loft still affect the number of storeys?

To 1: actually not, because it is arbitrary
To 2: no, unlikely

1. Does the construction of a knee wall have an impact on the number of floors?

The knee wall does not raise the roof, and thus does not increase the proportion of areas over 2.30 m. It only excludes areas that are mostly under 1 m in height and do not factor into the calculation anyway.

2. Can the conversion of the attic/roof space still affect the number of floors?

Non-full floors are not added together. But I do not see a habitable conversion of the attic (living spaces require certain minimum heights and escape routes) in a house of this size anyway.