Attic

The loft ( short ground; Swiss screed ) is a mostly isolated primitive and barely furnished room under the roof of a house. In some tracts of land he is also called storage, attic, beams, upper room, Oller or stage.

Is the attic insulated and expanded, however, as living or working space, it is called an attic. The loft is the Undeveloped roof space via a loft.

The loft of a barn called Hayloft, straw floor, granary.

Features

For attic stairs or ladders usually lead. It is available in multi-family houses mostly from the top landing of the staircase, unheated and often exposed only provisionally by glass roof tiles or roof hatches. In the inner-city Mietswohnhäusern the period of the attic was mostly provided as a dry soil the occupants ( tenants ) are available. In other buildings, the attic is often used as warehouse or archive. In the past, attics were repeatedly localities -lost discounts or works of art.

Biotope

The attic is often the breeding ground for rats or mice, often also of protected species such as barn owls and bats. Due to the use of toxic wood preservatives for the protection of the roof and the hermetic closure of ingress possibilities of this habitat for the animals lost. In contrast, we find in many old attics and old barns a hole in the gable, the so-called owls hole through which the animals can fly in and out.

Use

In the attic before the laundry was often hung out to dry. It will be there especially things stored, you rarely needed or you want to store a long time. In MDU barred, lockable sheds were built for sealed, but visible storage of unnecessary things in the apartment. Often small garrets or attics were also, for the accommodation of servants or of refugees in the days after the world wars, divided as enclosed spaces.

Many single and multi- family homes let their attic unused. This unused space reserve is an opportunity to create new living space. However, there is the loft conversion observed a lot. Crucial for a good living environment is a sufficiently rated insulation that protects the cold in winter and in the summer heat. In addition, this improves the energy efficiency of the house, since lost by an uninsulated roof heat. A room or an apartment in a converted attic called attic.

To produce a bright loft, the number, size and arrangement of the roof window is crucial. Another way to lighten the attic and in addition to gain space are dormers.

Usage

The Leitvariante loft has increasingly supplanted other regional concepts, especially the former North German sole use of soil was reshaped it. In Switzerland continues to screed the sole motto and not identical with the meaning of screed in Germany or Austria; as the one used in the Rhineland and in the Upper Rhine Plain term memory as his motto not to be confused also with congruent terms in the rest of the German -speaking world. There also exist a number of regional varieties, especially stage in the southwest German / Swabian region. The lower roof is only a small area in the Valais and find in South Tyrol, older variants, such as small-scale story, and the Westphalian bars are only rarely used.