ufr123
2019-02-02 20:31:04
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Hello everyone,
our current plan for a two-story house with a hipped roof ("Toscanahaus") provides the following roof construction: The top floor ceiling is designed as a wooden beam ceiling. The roof beams rest on a ring beam. Construction otherwise solid brick.
Now two general contractors have told us that this construction method is significantly too expensive because of the ring beam and that a solid concrete ceiling, on which the roof beams rest, would be the technically and economically more advantageous variant. In addition, the summer heat protection would be better due to the concrete ceiling. However, this would make the house higher than in our previous plan, which we actually like quite well.
What do you think? Is a design with a concrete ceiling really the more advantageous variant?
Thank you very much for your assessments, ufr
our current plan for a two-story house with a hipped roof ("Toscanahaus") provides the following roof construction: The top floor ceiling is designed as a wooden beam ceiling. The roof beams rest on a ring beam. Construction otherwise solid brick.
Now two general contractors have told us that this construction method is significantly too expensive because of the ring beam and that a solid concrete ceiling, on which the roof beams rest, would be the technically and economically more advantageous variant. In addition, the summer heat protection would be better due to the concrete ceiling. However, this would make the house higher than in our previous plan, which we actually like quite well.
What do you think? Is a design with a concrete ceiling really the more advantageous variant?
Thank you very much for your assessments, ufr