ᐅ Do tall doors fit well in rooms with standard ceiling heights?
Created on: 8 Apr 2019 07:40
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Lenschke
Hello dear forum,
We are currently deep in the house planning phase. To estimate the financing, we want to define the key parameters early on. One of these is the ceiling height.
At the moment, we are considering a standard height of 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in). This is what we have in our current apartment and also in my parents’ house – from our perspective, it is absolutely sufficient. We are also planning rather small rooms (for example, living/dining room separate from the kitchen). In smaller rooms, high ceilings don’t seem to work as well, as I have already read here.
However, we have started to second-guess this. Since we are both quite tall (and our children, if we have any, might even be taller), we plan to have tall doors — about 2.11 m (7 ft) in height. Our question is: do tall doors look “squeezed” in rooms with standard ceiling heights? Has anyone experienced this and can ease our concern? We do not want high ceilings. But before regretting it for the next 30 years, I’d rather clarify this question in advance.
Thanks in advance for the feedback!
We are currently deep in the house planning phase. To estimate the financing, we want to define the key parameters early on. One of these is the ceiling height.
At the moment, we are considering a standard height of 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in). This is what we have in our current apartment and also in my parents’ house – from our perspective, it is absolutely sufficient. We are also planning rather small rooms (for example, living/dining room separate from the kitchen). In smaller rooms, high ceilings don’t seem to work as well, as I have already read here.
However, we have started to second-guess this. Since we are both quite tall (and our children, if we have any, might even be taller), we plan to have tall doors — about 2.11 m (7 ft) in height. Our question is: do tall doors look “squeezed” in rooms with standard ceiling heights? Has anyone experienced this and can ease our concern? We do not want high ceilings. But before regretting it for the next 30 years, I’d rather clarify this question in advance.
Thanks in advance for the feedback!
Fuchur schrieb:
they often require one more step and therefore more space. Or not necessarily, but it becomes steeper. This can vary by a few centimeters (inches) of additional floor-to-floor height, but I wouldn’t make that the main focus. Designing a floor plan to rely heavily on having one more or less step in the stairway landing is not advisable.
This is one of those points where you have to ask: important? – actually yes, when considered on its own; but a half dozen details like this and the inexperienced planner gives up ;-)
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Mottenhausen8 Apr 2019 21:03And ultimately, the ceiling height is also a result of the overall building structure. Normally, we would have about 2.5 m (8 feet 2 inches) clear room height. However, due to the insulation under the slab, there is less insulation on the floor slab itself, which reduces the floor build-up on the slab and therefore increases the ceiling height. There are also half-height blocks available, but the structural builder prefers to use all blocks from the same size to minimize waste, so either a full block height is added or not at all; he will not cut a block in half for a complete row.
Mottenhausen schrieb:
There are also half-height bricks, but the builder prefers to use the same type of brick throughout to reduce waste, so either a full brick height is used or not—he won’t cut a brick in half to complete a full row. There are also height-compensating bricks, as well as DF, NF, and 2DF sizes, which can minimize waste simply through their dimensions and effectively allow for storey heights to be made to an accuracy of about 2cm (1 inch).
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Lenschke schrieb:
Currently, we have a standard ceiling height of 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in). This is what we know from our current apartment and from my parents’ house – from our perspective, absolutely sufficient.
Thanks in advance for the feedback!Many people are used to things as they were before, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be better. We previously also had only 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) ceiling height and standard doors; of course, it worked... but now with higher doors and higher ceilings, it’s a thousand times nicer. I would definitely reconsider it carefully.
Best regards,
Sabine
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Mottenhausen9 Apr 2019 10:1911ant schrieb:
There are also height-adjustment bricks, and incidentally DF, NF, and 2DF sizes, which by their dimensions alone can reduce waste and effectively allow for desired story heights to be made accurate to within 2cm (1 inch).I am aware of this, but it’s not worthwhile for the shell builder because they always end up with leftover expensive special-size bricks. Therefore, it’s better to stick to standard sizes, calculated tightly. If that’s not enough, they have some of those bricks on site anyway. They also have a saw. What I mean is that a full layer of half bricks would be much more expensive for them than a layer of regular bricks.
But since this is light-frame wood construction, it doesn’t really matter here.
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