Survey of saddle roof knee wall height

  • Erstellt am 2021-12-09 14:14:33

11ant

2021-12-15 14:51:36
  • #1
The hermaphroditic kinked windows were such a short-lived fashion phenomenon in the early 80s that they never even had their christening and have remained a nameless phenomenon. Even the 45° corners in floor plans lasted considerably longer. As a window manufacturer, I was relieved in terms of installation warranty that I only entered the industry after this short fashion was long over. Although we were strong in roof windows, we never acquired projects with these hermaphrodites as modernization customers. Built-in furniture is good, but classic knee wall spaces are, from an insulation standpoint, I would say "not nice". Therefore, I advise extremely sparing use of consecutive arrangements of knee walls and knee wall gable, at most in the area of WC and shower (as long as the bathroom is not located in a cross gable). Thanks to contemporaries who push regulations to the very limit, most municipalities now counteract with such strict exceptions that often only real dormers instead of at least cross dormers are possible. With knee wall roof trusses, however, real dormers are "death on a bucket," as one of my mentors would have said.
 

ypg

2021-12-15 15:47:53
  • #2
The knee walls in the parental home were "insulated". Isn't that classic? What's not nice about it? If done properly, there is no reason not to do it.
 

11ant

2021-12-15 16:07:29
  • #3
Cavities are to be avoided and are actually almost always beneficial from a building physics perspective: Traditionally, one built without a knee wall with sloped ceiling sections behind the dwarf walls. The dwarf walls were insulated afterwards (or, in a transitional phase between the dwarf wall and knee wall era, already during construction). According to today's insulation standards, the boundary of the "thermal envelope" then only extended down to the dwarf wall under the rafters, then abutted the dwarf walls and continued on the floor of the sloped ceiling area (i.e., on the floor slab). Three "sections" of insulation flow—this is technically "not nice" and, in my opinion, even more important than the gain in usable space as a reason for the trend to replace the dwarf wall with the knee wall.
 

Deadree

2021-12-16 23:53:10
  • #4


To be honest, we don’t have such a small plot (700 sqm) and 180 sqm of pure living space + additional storage space. We simply like the spacious look.
 

ypg

2021-12-16 23:57:48
  • #5
What is more spacious about a 180 sqm two-story house compared to a 180 sqm gable roof house?
 

bauherr2019_he

2021-12-17 06:39:04
  • #6
It looks more massive from the outside and one has to like that.
 

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