What is a daughter wall? What is a mountain wall?

The mountain wall refers to the longitudinal axis of the house (short axis) on both sides of the wall; daughter wall is a short wall on the outside of the roof.

Daughter wall (aka: granddaughter wall) is a short wall around the roof of the building, the main role in addition to the maintenance of safety, but also at the bottom of the waterproofing pressure brick header, in order to avoid seepage of waterproofing layer, or the roof of the rainwater runoff. According to the national building code, the height of the daughter wall of the roof shall not be less than 1.1m, the highest shall not be greater than 1.5m.

Shan wall is generally known as the outer horizontal wall, refers to the short axis of the building along the direction of the wall is called the horizontal wall, the horizontal walls at both ends of the building is generally referred to as the mountain wall. Ancient buildings generally had a mountain wall, which served mainly to separate from neighboring residences and to provide fire protection.

The role of the daughter wall on the roof is to protect the safety of people, and the building fa?ade plays a decorative role. Not on the roof of the role of the daughter wall in addition to the decorative role of the fa?ade, but also fixed linoleum.

Daughter wall is a construction terminology, also known as pressure eaves wall is a way of roofing and external wall articulation processing, as a roof railing or housing profile processing of a measure to prevent people from falling, but also play a role in waterproofing the roof.

The role of the daughter wall is to protect the safety of people, and the building fa?ade play a decorative role. Not on the role of the daughter wall in addition to the decorative role of the fa?ade, but also fixed linoleum or fixed waterproofing membrane with.

When there is a concrete roof, according to the top of the slab counted to the bottom of the roof shall prevail; no concrete roof, according to the top of the slab counted to the top of the daughter wall shall prevail.

Today's daughter wall has become a special term for construction, along with the development and progress of society, the daughter wall of romantic and poetic is no longer the content of people's enjoyment of the content of the national building code of 90 centimeters high in the brick-concrete structure type of a short wall only. It returned to the original building, in the building to play its role. Generally on the roof of some units, becoming an essential and closed part of the building construction process.

The proverb says that "the mountain wall is bound to hurt people", this is because the main beam of the traditional Chinese hard mountain-style housing in the mountain wall, and the mountain wall is often a load-bearing wall, if you open the door on the wall will make the wall's load-bearing capacity decline, the main beam has the risk of falling.