Dropped ceiling

As both a loft suspended from the roof deck or suspended ceiling is called, and the resulting space between roof and floor. The loft separates a lower region of space horizontally from the roof space. Today lofts are only installed in residential areas in order to gain extra space, such as a bedroom balcony. Suspended floors can only be installed if the room has the appropriate clearance height.

Historical Usage

In the past, a loft in farmhouses served as sleeping quarters for servants or storage. Until the 19th century he was still in town houses verwendet.In Germany and France also lived well-off middle-class families close to the center in tenements. These apartments offered far fewer opportunities to accommodate the need for civil servant status. The unheated attic room as a sleeping area for the maid was the exception. Frequently suggested maid her bed in the evening in the kitchen, in the bathroom or in the hallway on. In all European cities maid slept well in the lofts. These were small Gelasse that have resulted from that one moved an extra blanket over the dining comb, above the bath or on the floor in the high living spaces. One of the most striking descriptions of a suspended floor is in Theodor Fontane's novel The Stechlin (1899 ), who shall report can be a maid following:

" Always have [ the suspended floors ] in the kitchen, sometimes close to the stove or even just opposite. And now you climb up a ladder and when you are tired, you can also fall down. But mostly it goes. And now opens the door and pushes into the hole, just like in an oven. This is what they call 'ne sleep. And I can tell you simply: in a hayloft, it is better, even when mice are there. And worst of all, it is in the summer. Outside are thirty degrees, and on the stove the whole day was fire; as it is because, as if you were placed on the grid. "