House with an attic - design features of the
If you have not laid the foundation yet, you have already decided that you will have a mansard-type house, at once think over at what level the floors of the upper floor will be. The fact is that the overlap can be done either according to the Mauerlat, or much lower. In the second case, from the laid floor, it will be necessary to continue to build the walls to a certain level, for example, to the waist of a medium-height man, and only then to install the rafter system. If you have a small wooden house with an attic, the room will be exclusively of an attic type, both options will be suitable for a stone building.
Advantages of the location of the attic rooms directly under the roof slopes in saving materials and time, since there is no need to build up the walls of the .If the ceiling is lower than the roof overhang and the horizontally placed puffs pass in the middle of the rafters and serve as the basis for the insulated ceiling, the rooms on this floor will be better insulated, as they will have little contact with the surrounding area directly through the roof.
Than one-storey houses with a mansard
are good. No matter how many annexes you build to a single-storey house, the main living quarters will be enclosed in bearing walls, the rest can be assigned the role of auxiliary or economic. However, if you seriously expand the useful living space, the rooms should be adapted loft. Or, if you are just starting construction, note that one-story houses with a loft in no small measure save money, because you get a practically full second floor, just carefully insulating the roof.
If you plan to make a kitchen in the attic, provide very good ventilation, as there is nowhere else to climb the steam, it will all settle down here, indoors.
In addition, if you make a broken gable roof, the house will become more attractive, and the aesthetic appearance is also an important quality of private construction. The shape of the rooms also plays an important role, since, without diminishing the living space, many built-in closets and hanging tables can be made. If the lower floors are heated very well, the heating of the attic can spend less fuel or electricity, because the warm air rises.
Mansard houses and their shortcomings
Despite all the positive aspects of the living space under the roof, there are some drawbacks to it, which, however, often depend on the roof construction. So, for example, if the rafters are located at an angle of 45 degrees, we get rather short rafter legs, but very inclined ceilings. Mansard houses with a broken roof shape have practically vertical walls in the premises under the roof, however the cost of such a construction is not much inferior to a full-fledged floor. In addition, the complexity of the rafter ligament with the bolt increases.
If you install frames in a "birdhouse" type structure, the lighting of the upper rooms of the house with the attic floor will not be sufficient, the inclined glass units are much more expensive than the usual vertical ones. However, there is an option to make window openings in the gables. Compared to a full second floor, the useful area of the attic is much smaller, because you can move normally only in areas where the height of the sloping ceiling is not less than 160 centimeters .Another negative factor is psychological. Experts argue that the sloping ceilings cause a person to be depressed, as if something threatening constantly hangs over him.
