Kniestock or higher roof pitch

  • Erstellt am 2023-07-30 16:06:31

KaraiKa

2023-07-30 16:06:31
  • #1
Hello everyone, I would be interested to know whether it is more cost-effective to plan a knee wall or to increase it, or alternatively to plan without a knee wall and instead increase the roof pitch.

As an example:
Without a knee wall but with a 45-degree roof, or a 1m knee wall with a 30-degree roof?

Can a clear statement be made about what is more cost-effective?
Thank you very much in advance!!
 

Allthewayup

2023-07-30 18:11:35
  • #2
Are you sure that you don't mean it the other way around? Full story and 45-degree roof, that results in a significantly higher ridge.
 

sysrun80

2023-07-30 18:31:26
  • #3
We faced the same question and decided on the 2 meter knee wall with a 25 degree slope. With our general contractor, it was mathematically a zero-sum. However, we now do without roof windows and have no sloping walls that disturb.
 

ypg

2023-07-30 20:30:43
  • #4
No KS at all with a 45-degree roof, because you lose about 1 meter of usable floor space on the roof sides, as you can hardly use this low area. You then knee-wall back to one meter. But that actually makes sense if you need less space in the attic than on the ground floor, e.g. parents’ area also on the ground floor and only 3 children's rooms plus a bathroom in the attic. Downstairs you have, say, 100 sqm, roughly 60 in the attic. If you distribute rooms conventionally, meaning you need as much space upstairs as on the ground floor, it makes sense to build with a KS right away. But I wouldn’t go below a 125 cm knee wall so you can place beds in the area underneath and still comfortably get in and sit there. Then personal tastes come into play: some don’t like slopes, others do. Plus, depending on that, storage space results. Ultimately, the KS arises from individual needs in combination with the requirements in the development plan, such as how high the house is allowed to be, which roof pitch, which eaves height, etc., and the floor plan. So I wouldn’t give a blanket recommendation for anything, because there is nothing that’s better, as it depends individually on the plot (large or small) and the residents. It’s all an interplay – one affects the other. Sorry..., it was about costs (I forgot). They naturally also depend on individuality. Because if you build without an attic (KS with 30-degree roof pitch), you may have to create storage space elsewhere, which causes additional costs.
 

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