New house height help

[bennyboydurham]

Gents,

We're hoping to self build soon and our planning consultant has told us to go off and look at some layouts that we like. We've found a simple two storey house with dormer windows in the loft giving an extra couple of rooms. Using an online planner it's easy to visualise room dimensions across the ground but I'm struggling to work out how high the house would be on the site as you have to include the floorboards and thickness between upper floors and ceilings. In trying to find some ballpark answers Google doesn't give a definitive answer so I thought the assembled wisdom of PH would know something about this. Forgive me if these are daft questions but I'm an uber novice!

What is considered a reasonably 'lofty' ceiling height? I don't mean mansion style super high but high enough not to feel like a new build.
What is the usual height between an upper floor and the ceiling below? I know it depends on construction materials etc but I'm looking for a reasonable ballpark figure.
In terms of calcualting the height of the house I'm guessing that it depends on how much the house is built up on the foundations. If the house is not built up at all, then presumably the ground floor is roughly at the same height as the ground outside?

So many questions,

Ta

Edited by bennyboydurham on Wednesday 6th July 17:53

[Gav147]

To give you some ballpark figures, Standard floor to ceiling height on a new build is usually around 2.4m. Between floors allowing for plaster board ceiling, joists and floor boards will be around 250mm - 300mm depending on what depth of floor joists are needed.

The overall height of the build they are asking for will be to the ridge of the roof, this obviously depends upon the size, style and pitch of your roof.

[shimmey69]

Gav147 said:

To give you some ballpark figures, Standard floor to ceiling height on a new build is usually around 2.4m. Between floors allowing for plaster board ceiling, joists and floor boards will be around 250mm - 300mm depending on what depth of floor joists are needed.

The overall height of the build they are asking for will be to the ridge of the roof, this obviously depends upon the size, style and pitch of your roof.

spot on

To give a lofty feel you can go to 3m floor to ceiling as big stately home mansions tend to start at 3.6m

[Evo141n]

Even 2.7m will give you a better feeling of space, though remember plasterboard comes in 1.2x2.4 boards. Putting double doors from your circulation corridor into your lounge or dining areas will also help to make the rooms feel larger.

[saleen836]

Evo141n said:

Even 2.7m will give you a better feeling of space, though remember plasterboard comes in 1.2x2.4 boards. Putting double doors from your circulation corridor into your lounge or dining areas will also help to make the rooms feel larger.

Plasterboard also comes in 1.2x2.7, 1.2x3.0 amongst other sizes

[bennyboydurham]

Thanks guys, that's a big help. I'll post up the floorplans I've come up with if I'm brave enough!