How high is my knee height?

What's going on here?

As you can read, this is completely new territory for me.

The plot is 691 m2 in size and has a slope of about 1 m.

The house currently has a size of 10 x 12.5 m2.

Best regards

The height of the ground floor should be normal/standard. No extra heights.

Hi, then just do it the way the Doc wrote it: record and measure

Regards

If you know how to do it, it is surely very easy.

Hello Delf,

I'll try to clarify it:

First, you draw the side wall (width x height) of the ground floor, above which the ridge is located.

Then you draw the thickness of the ceiling as a "beam" on the wall.

In the middle of the wall, you then draw a line upwards that is 9 meters long to scale - that is your maximum ridge height.

At this point, you set your roof halves with a 30° pitch each and extend these lines beyond the ground floor wall to the right and left.

Then you can extend the outer edges of your ground floor wall upwards until they intersect with the roof line.

Then you only need to measure how long the line is from this intersection point to the top edge of your ground floor ceiling, and you already have your knee wall height.

Regards,

Dirk

PS: However, you must also ensure that the eaves height is not exceeded - for this simply add the knee wall height to the ground floor height (including the ceiling) and observe the 5 m you mentioned.

But then you end up with a second full story - the requirement is a single-story design...!

I don't see it that way.

Even if I take the top edge of the basement ceiling or floor slab as the lower reference point, I initially have a floor height of at least about 2.70 m, plus the thickness of the intermediate ceiling of about 0.40 m, that already makes 3.10 m. Then there are still 1.90 m up to the maximum eaves height of 5.0 m.

From these 1.90 m, subtract the thickness of the roof (about 0.30 - 0.40 m), leaving a knee wall height of a maximum of 1.50 - 1.60 m.

For me, that is no longer a full story.

Regards,

Dirk