Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Comment on floor plans 14Aug 09, 2019 6:56 pm Guys, Can I ask some specific advice? 1. About FFL? The old house: The survey shows that the floor level FFL 11.47; backyard 11.50; (the neighbor on my west, next my backyard 11.80) front yard is about 11.60 The driving way starting from 10.43 to 10.83 along 8 meters ( a little slope; there is 0.65m difference between house floor and the car port floor; Overall, the front yard looks level ( or I can say minor slope on the driving way). The new house: Designer proposed finished floor level ( FFL) 11.5 initially, and the garage FFL 11.414. By keeping the garage floor same level with house floor, this results in a big slope ( 1:6) in front of the garage. I thought 1:6 slope is too steep. Then he changed the new house FFL to 11.3, garage FFL11.214 and the slope in front of garage 1:7 My question is: - Is that driving way slope 1:7 still steep? - What is the best way to arrange my garage FFL? Do I need to keep house FFL11.3, then drop garage FFL to 10.9 ( so need 2 steps from garage to house), after that the slope in front of garage will be reduced significantly. I need some advice here. Much appreciated. Re: Comment on floor plans 15Aug 09, 2019 7:16 pm Another one will be the Living/Dinning ceiling height, windows on north and eaves. Currently it is 37C (3.18m), window for living/dinning 34C ( 2.92m), all eaves 450mm. any experience/advice to share here. I am not sure about the height, window and eaves ( I thought the eaves on north should be a bit longer but builder will usually do same wide across the whole house. CDC Housing Code 3 When to apply Floor Area external face of wall vs Gross Floor Area internal face of wall. Reading thru CDC Housing Code 3, lets take a lot 915sqm.… 0 16421 isn't a garage level with the rest of the house a given? pretty sure they 'came around' long time ago. if you have a flat block, the garage is usually level with the rest… 1 17414 6 11470 |