ᐅ Grade beam and wooden beam ceiling in a hip roof – optimal solution?
Created on: 2 Feb 2019 20:31
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ufr123
Hello everyone,
Our current plan for a two-story house with a hip roof ("Tuscan house") includes the following roof construction:
The top floor ceiling is designed as a wooden beam ceiling. The roof rafters rest on a reinforced concrete ring beam. The rest of the construction is solid masonry using bricks.
Now two general contractors have told us that this construction method is significantly more expensive due to the ring beam, and that a solid concrete ceiling supporting the roof rafters would be the technically and economically more favorable option. They also said that the summer thermal insulation would be better with the concrete ceiling.
However, this would make the house taller than in our current plan, which we actually like quite a bit.
What do you think? Is a concrete ceiling really the better option?
Thank you very much for your feedback,
ufr123
Our current plan for a two-story house with a hip roof ("Tuscan house") includes the following roof construction:
The top floor ceiling is designed as a wooden beam ceiling. The roof rafters rest on a reinforced concrete ring beam. The rest of the construction is solid masonry using bricks.
Now two general contractors have told us that this construction method is significantly more expensive due to the ring beam, and that a solid concrete ceiling supporting the roof rafters would be the technically and economically more favorable option. They also said that the summer thermal insulation would be better with the concrete ceiling.
However, this would make the house taller than in our current plan, which we actually like quite a bit.
What do you think? Is a concrete ceiling really the better option?
Thank you very much for your feedback,
ufr123
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