![]() We live in an area which gets quite cold in the winter, but I have no information on their HVAC cost. Replacing the view windows I mentioned was done by the owner and required rope hanging form the top of the roof because there's no safe surface on which to to stand.So if you have a spherical roof built, be sure they start shingling in the back of the house. They hired a roofing company which did the work just fine, but it's better in the rear than the front where they started. Many of the shingles are bent over the diagonals joining each triangle. Just last Saturday, I commented about how Re-roofing must be pretty interesting.Because of the pseudo-curve of the roof, the view is particularly amazing in this house because the windows facing the valley view both out and up without interruption.We are in a low-population area, so if we have a contractor with such experience, you probably do, too. Many were built, probably from the same contractor.(Side note: The kitchen is quite nice and the design works really well). The kitchen runs a large part of the diameter of the house, so isn't along the outer walls except for one side. Like most houses in the neighborhood, this is in the 2000-2800 ft² range. It is FAR larger than it looks from the outside.I've been inside one and, as a house geek, asked the owners plenty of questions. I live in an area with at least 3 or 4 N-gon (not necessarily octagon) houses. With the added materials and labor, this significantly increases the expense of building a home. And for the exterior siding/finish, you'll end up with lots of cuts for bricks or custom corner pieces for siding. Construct the framing with the 60 degree angle reversed and you'll likely have to throw out some of the framing. ![]() When building things that aren't square, there's also an increased risk for waste due to mistakes. When checking that walls are aligned, builders use 3-4-5 triangles and measure the diagonals of a rectangle to ensure that they are square.įinally, many homes are built on lots that often have parallel sides and homes are often built to maximize the utilization of these lots. You don't have to worry about which side of the framing the measurements are based on because it should be the same measurement. With 90 degree cuts, a top/bottom plate for framing the wall doesn't matter if it's upside down. However, the big reason to me are building techniques and skills. With tools, framing squares, levels, speed squares, and corner tools for drywall mud and paint, are all based on 90 degree angles. With building parts, you have things like bricks with 4 sides, wood sheathing with straight edges, not to mention studs, drywall, and most other building materials with factory edges. What is the reason there are no hexagonal houses?īuilding parts, building tools, building techniques, and building skills are all based on square walls. Maybe its just tradition? People don't like it because it looks like church? Builders have some objection to 60-degree angles? Possible explanations would be that the shape is expensive for small houses due to the 6 corners, but for a large house like mine the room shapes work out fine, in fact they are better than a box house. What I can't understand is why there seems to be no-one building hexagonal houses? The only notable building I could find at all was the Supreme Court. The advantages of a hexagon are obvious: simple roof shape, no valleys, space efficient, heat efficient (this would be in New England and subject to cold winters), good wind resistance. This would be a big house, each side being at least 30 feet wide (footprint 2340 sq ft). In my design I settled on a hexagon as the logical shape for the frame, which I am considering for masonry construction. Recently I have been considering the economics and feasability of building a house versus buying a used one.
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