House construction - low ceiling height with wall height max. 4.50m

  • Erstellt am 2022-10-26 12:23:13

eNdless2k

2022-10-26 12:23:13
  • #1
Hello everyone,

according to the development plan, the following guidelines apply in our building area:



WHmax 4.50m and GHmax 8.50m

But now our architect says that for a two-story house with a gabled roof we could divide the heights as follows:
Ceiling height ground floor - 2.58m
Knee wall upper floor - 1.19m

Isn’t that a bit low?
He was also quite sure that it cannot be done differently.

We assumed a ceiling height downstairs of 2.75m and a knee wall of 1.4m.
 

K a t j a

2022-10-26 12:38:50
  • #2
How are we supposed to know? How high is your house? How strong are the ceilings? How high is the floor construction? Is the floor slab buried? Before we puzzle around with your property for a long time, it would probably be easiest if your architect sends you a height section of a simple gable roof house as an example with the corresponding measurements on it.
 

DaGoodness

2022-10-26 12:59:05
  • #3


We also have a ceiling height of 2.58m on the ground floor and the knee wall on the upper floor is 1.08m and we live very well with it :p
The first time we had a problem was this year with our new box spring bed. Usually, the headboards of box spring beds have a height of about 115cm. So it didn't fit under the sloping roof. I then shortened the headboard by a few centimeters and that was it.
 

SaniererNRW123

2022-10-26 13:03:43
  • #4

That is pure luxury and by no means standard. Unless you are referring to a raw construction ceiling height.
 

ypg

2022-10-26 14:11:59
  • #5
But that conflicts and is therefore not feasible. You also have to include the intermediate ceiling and floor slab. And no: 2.58 is not too low, it is standard.
 

netuser

2022-10-26 14:35:52
  • #6


Aside from the fact that I doubt even the mentioned minimum heights will be met when it comes to the details, the heights of 2.58m and 1.19m are perfectly fine.

We had the same requirement of max. 4.5m and ended up with 2.55 and 1.03m knee wall. Maybe we could have actually squeezed out 1.10m, but 1.4m you can forget. In the end, though, we don’t really miss it.
 

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