ᐅ Eaves height of 6 meters for an urban villa

Dear community – I have a question about eaves height,

I would simply like to hear your opinions based on your own experience.
We have purchased a plot where the development plan specifies an eaves height limit of 4.5 meters (15 feet). By maintaining an increased distance from the property boundary, the eaves height can be raised up to 6 meters (20 feet).

Now, we are receiving different statements from various general planners about whether this eaves height is achievable or not.
Since many strongly claim that it cannot be met under any circumstances, we are uncertain about its feasibility.
We don’t want to sign a contract and then find out when submitting the building permit / planning permission application that it is not possible after all.

Regards, Sascha

When planning your house, try leaving out the term “town villa” and instead calculate the knee wall height for the eaves. The term “town villa” isn’t set in stone and allows flexibility in knee wall height. Usually, the difference between a knee wall of 180 cm (71 inches) and 240 cm (94 inches) is hardly noticeable. Even for cabinets 2.3 m (7.5 ft) tall, there are solutions with lower knee walls without needing to shorten them.

Sascha aus H schrieb:
Now we are getting different statements from various general contractors about whether this is feasible or not. Many strongly say that this cannot be met under any circumstances.

An architect could help you (Here is the development plan, these are our requirements, please design a house!)! You can still have the design built by a general contractor.

If I’m not mistaken, we have an eave height of 6.20m (20.3 ft) with two full stories, each having a ceiling height of 2.60m (8.5 ft) measured from the finished floor level.

So I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with 6m (19.7 ft). Maybe just with slightly lower ceiling heights.

But I can only agree with this:

Bieber0815 schrieb:
An architect could help you

Either we are talking about different things, or an eave height of 6 meters (20 feet) is absolutely not a problem. Here is our cross-section. The 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) is measurement inaccuracy.
Ceiling height of the upper floor measured at 250 cm (98 inches) from finished floor level (an Ikea Pax wardrobe fits in easily).
Better check the development plan to see if two full stories are even permitted.

ypg schrieb:
When planning your house, try to leave out the term “town villa” and calculate the knee wall height for the eaves instead.

Thanks for the tip, that’s exactly what we have asked for so far. A knee wall of 1.6m (5 feet 3 inches) would probably be possible.
They’re still not full ceiling-height walls, but at least not just 90cm (35 inches) anymore.

Bieber0815 schrieb:
An architect could help you (Here is the development plan, these are our wishes, please design us a house!)! You can still build the architect’s design with a general contractor.

We did ask an architect once. That would have cost us between €2,000 and €3,000.
Since most general contractors don’t credit those costs back to you, the investment was too high for us. We’d rather live with a traditional gable roof house, if in doubt.