Floor To Roof Height

If your goal is to only calculate the roof height do not enter any numbers in wall height field and only use building width and roof pitch fields.

Floor to roof height.

The minimum height from the surface of the floor to the ceiling or bottom of slab should be not less than 2 75m. Newer houses are often built with nine foot ceilings on the first floor and sometimes eight foot ceilings on the second story. For air conditioned rooms a height of not less than 2 4 m measured from the top of the floor to the lowest point of the air conditioning duct or the false ceiling should be provided. As a reminder please don t forget to add height of rafter thickness of roofing material and ridge vent to the number that you ll get using our calculator.

9 0 9 6 and 10 0 are not unusual. Many new homes have a higher ceiling height on the first floor. Note that this recommended dimension is given as a floor to floor height as the floor to ceiling height in a retail or commercial development will depend on the fitout. Height regulation for rooms 1.

It may be slightly less or more than this but depends on your existing roof structure which also may need to be configured to remove any struts that you currently need to step over to move around the space. Today s standard ceiling height is nine feet.