Kniestock Danwood House in Schleswig-Holstein - What is the maximum possible?

However, I don't understand the first calculation from 11ant.

You mean the one where I gauged how theoretically towering the knee wall could become if it were only limited by the ridge height? - that was only meant to show that the full-story box in your case represents the more significant limitation.

Could it be that your question should have actually been: "I want to place a Danwood Point 169A on my plot and I assume it has a 2 m knee wall. Does it fit on my plot with that..."?

Then the answer would be:
1. in terms of ridge height: yes;
2. because of avoiding a full story: no, with this knee wall height.

3. You can still build this model. I see it working with a 1.80 m knee wall. For that, I would change the following: a) switch to roof windows in the air space; b) the dressing room gets a dormer; c) for area and standing height reasons, the second dressing room in the bedroom is omitted, so that the bedroom and bathroom can be consolidated and both can have knee wall spaces. That's the icing on the cake, as my late grandmother would have said.

So with Danwood it would not be a problem to make the knee wall lower. This would even make the house cheaper overall, however the salespeople cannot say how high the knee wall may be. That would have to be calculated by an architect. But I came here with the hope that someone can calculate that for me before I put money down and have it calculated by the architect.

You mean the one where I explored how theoretically towering the knee wall could become if only the ridge height limited it? - that was just to show that the full-storey box is the more decisive restriction in your case.

Could it be that your question should have actually been: "I want to place a Danwood Point 169A on my property and assume it has a 2 m knee wall. Does it fit on my property with that ..."?

Then the answer would be:
1. in terms of ridge height: yes;
2. because of avoiding a full storey: with this knee wall height, no.

3. However, you can still build this model. I see it working with a 1.80 m knee wall. For that, I would change the following: a) switch to roof windows in the air space; b) the dressing room gets a dormer; c) for reasons of area and standing height, the second dressing room in the bedroom is omitted so that bedroom and bathroom can be shifted together and each can have knee wall spaces. That’s it, as my late grandmother would have said.

Yes, you understood me exactly. The floor plan would change almost completely anyway, since we do not want an air space. I did some calculations myself and also arrived at 1.8 m (in case someone dares to download the .xlsx in the .zip ). However, all this was calculated with "line" walls and without extension of the walls and the roof. Can you really calculate it that simply? Surely, more belongs to it?

Best regards

The architect submitting the approval planning must calculate that anyway. You don’t have to exploit the possible knee wall to the last centimeter. My "calculation" with 1.80 m has not been scrutinized under a microscope. If you were to break the full-story batten with 1.75 m – my proposed amendment still works with that – I would at least be surprised.

Why should a layperson calculate something for you here? Danwood has architects. Those wanting to build must also dare to take the step and approach the GU: they will be able to tell you that. Numerically, the Point 169a is a single-story building... I can also repeat #5 if you want, but I won't. If you don't want an airspace, there are other mentioned options.

All right. I was hoping that someone could calculate the whole thing down to the centimeter with an online calculator or other programs that I couldn't find.

Linking the base area of the house and the knee wall doesn't make sense to me. But that is the law now, and if the knee wall doesn't fit, I will ask Danwood how expensive a bay window/conservatory is to achieve my desired knee wall.

Small house = small knee wall, huge house with large base area = 2 stories calculated on paper as 1 story. Logic?

Thank you.