Mansard roof

If earlier people in the majority built villages or dachas over the buildings easier, trying to save as much as possible the funds collected for construction, now the designs are popular that allow all the corners to be adapted for housing. That's why the broken roof skylight increasingly displaces a simple gable construction, which does not allow to comfortably equip a comfortable room in attics. Refurbishing and slightly insulating this space, you will get a place for a gym, art workshop, bedroom, library.

It is best to design a house with a mansard roof at once, without being engaged in expensive repair of the finished building. So you can immediately choose the most suitable type of roof, calculating the permissible load on the walls and floors. In addition, the owners will have the opportunity at the construction stage to increase the length of the rafter's legs and move them away from the wall to half a meter, which will make it possible to solve important constructive tasks in the future.

Advantages of the attic roof for private houses

1. When using this type of roof, the owners receive from above a nearly complete and quite extensive room, which can be arranged in any style without much effort.
2. The cost of construction work for the construction of the attic roof is slightly higher, but this amount is not too large, even for a family of medium income. In any case, this type of work will not cost you more than to build several additional rooms in an additional house several years later.
3. Earlier only in the cities you could see the surrounding view from above from the windows of the apartment, the attic also allows you to comfortably admire the beauties of the countryside from the height of the second or third floor even in winter, being inside a cozy room.

Some shortcomings of the attic roof

1. If you want to use the attic in the cold period, then you need to additionally insulate the roof, which should reach a height of at least 2.5 m.
2. Alas, but in the attics can not do without sloping ceilings, otherwise you will have to accept the loss of a huge part of the room. Some people consider such an irregular geometric shape of the room as a significant drawback.
3. For mansards almost always expensive windows of a special form are required.

The main types of attic roofs

Single and simple gable roofs require less money for construction, but they are least suitable for equipment in the attics of cozy and warm rooms. Useful territory for housing starts here in a place where the height of the room reaches up to one and a half meters. Most often for this people use the construction of a gable sloping roof with a minimum inclination angle at the very bottom of the ramp. In addition, suitable for the construction of attics, the four-pitch hip and half-hail roof types. Variants of tented roof dormers are used only when the house has the form of a square or a complex polygon.

What windows are installed in the attic?

Depending on the type of mansard roof, you can install both a vertical window and a window in the roof plane. In the first case, a special rafter structure is required, which greatly complicates the relief of the arch and increases installation costs. The option with a window in the roof slabs also has its own nuances. A simple product for this purpose is not suitable. Such windows are produced with stronger reinforced glass and special technology to strengthen the swivel frame. Also, a qualitative sealing of the opening should be carried out, preventing rain from entering the house.

In the end, we note that the attic roof is capable of performing other tasks in addition to solving problems with an additional living space. For example, the original and stylish construction of the roof will give your house a unique and architectural expressiveness.