ᐅ Floor/Ceiling Construction: Concrete Slab or Timber Joist Floor – Advantages and Disadvantages?
Created on: 13 Sep 2015 20:22
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Barossi
Hello everyone,
We are making steady progress with our architect. The floor plan is already looking very good.
Now we have been asked which type of floor slab we want to use for the upper story.
Concrete slab or timber beam ceiling – what are the advantages and disadvantages? Can anyone comment on the costs?
For context: We are planning a solid masonry house with calcium silicate blocks and facing bricks. Footprint: 12.5 m x 9.5 m (41 ft x 31 ft);
2 stories with a roof pitch of 30°.
Best regards, Barossi
We are making steady progress with our architect. The floor plan is already looking very good.
Now we have been asked which type of floor slab we want to use for the upper story.
Concrete slab or timber beam ceiling – what are the advantages and disadvantages? Can anyone comment on the costs?
For context: We are planning a solid masonry house with calcium silicate blocks and facing bricks. Footprint: 12.5 m x 9.5 m (41 ft x 31 ft);
2 stories with a roof pitch of 30°.
Best regards, Barossi
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Bauexperte13 Sep 2015 20:51BeHaElJa schrieb:
assumed now that he wanted the whole thing as a ground floor ceiling.
the phrase "can be done wrong" - certainly not necessarily has to be.Apart from the fact that I do not understand this comment. It is clearly stated that the original poster wants to build a two-story building …Regards, Bauexperte
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Bauexperte13 Sep 2015 20:52Barossi schrieb:
Hello,
as I understand it, the main concern is the ceiling between the ground floor and the upper floor. The small crawl space (about 1.5m (5 feet) high) will be constructed as a wooden beam ceiling, right? Which one is it now? Ground floor ceiling or upper floor ceiling? In a two-story building, the ceiling above the ground floor is generally built as a solid concrete slab ...
Best regards, Bauexperte
I assume he was offered to have the ground floor ceiling constructed as a wooden beam ceiling. We have row houses currently under construction by an eco-architect here, which feature an exposed wooden beam ceiling (which is certainly well and properly decoupled, etc.). Another architect also told us back then that this looks very good.
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Bauexperte13 Sep 2015 21:43BeHaElJa schrieb:
I assume he was offered to construct the ground floor ceiling as a wooden beam ceiling. What would be wrong with that?
BeHaElJa schrieb:
We have terraced houses currently under construction by an eco-architect here, featuring exposed wooden beam ceilings (which were certainly properly decoupled, etc.). Another architect had also told us back then that it looks very good. A wooden beam ceiling above the ground floor or upper floor primarily has little to nothing to do with good appearance; at best, it can be an "on top" feature if it is left exposed and not covered.
Regards, Bauexperte