ᐅ Ceiling height – What height did you choose for your ceilings?

opalau schrieb:
Is soundproofing worse with flush-mounted doors? Why is that?

However, you need to distinguish between flush-mounted and wall-aligned doors. A wall-aligned door can have very good sound insulation properties, including a 40mm (1.6 inches) thick (flush) door leaf made of tubular chipboard or solid wood, either laminated or finger-jointed, with an aluminum frame, stainless steel silent lock, and so on. I wouldn’t generalize here; such doors range widely in price, and the price differences are certainly justified.

Bookstar schrieb:
2.40 m (7 ft 10 in) is, I believe, the legal minimum for living spaces; nothing less is allowed.

That can’t be right, can it?

In my rented apartment, the ceiling height was only 220 cm (7 ft 3 in).

First of all, thank you for your feedback! I find it surprising that everyone chose more than 220. I guess I will have to visit a model home park again and measure the ceiling height with a laser to see how it feels to me.

Brickleberry schrieb:
That can’t be right, can it?

In my rental apartment, I only had a ceiling height of 220cm (87 inches).

Built during the imperial era?
Existing buildings obviously won’t be demolished.

Building regulations usually require a minimum clear ceiling height of 2.40m (7 ft 10 in) for habitable rooms.

@Brickleberry ... did you really plan for 220 cm (87 inches) height? Already installed roller shutter boxes take up about 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 inches) of ceiling height, which means the windows would be a maximum of about 190 cm (75 inches) tall, and the window glass would only reach about 180 cm (71 inches) high. You should really take a look at this in reality.

Alex85 schrieb:
Built during the imperial era?
The existing structure obviously won’t be demolished.

Building codes usually require a clear (minimum) ceiling height of 2.40m (7 ft 10 in) for living spaces.

No, but I have never found out the exact year it was built. My parents’ house also only had 220 cm (7 ft 3 in); it was built by a housing cooperative.

kbt09 schrieb:
@Brickleberry ... did you really have 220 cm (7 ft 3 in) in mind for the design? Installed roller shutter boxes already take up about 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 in) of ceiling height, meaning the window height would be limited to about 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) max, and the glass part of the window to about 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) max.
You really should take a look at that in real life.

A single-family house from the 1970s that I’m currently interested in has similar dimensions, I think. I would need to measure it properly, though.

Only in the case of a future vertical extension would I consider increasing the height. But that’s quite difficult with existing houses.