When you choose what the floors in your new house will be made of, many factors should be taken into account. Here is the load on the overlap, and the total number of storeys of the building, and the climate in the area where you are going to live, and the estimated period of operation of the building … Let’s try to consider the materials from which you can make an overlap, closer. Wooden. The basis of the ceiling is beams, the thickness of which depends on both the load on the ceiling and on the size of the span between the supports (load -bearing walls or columns). The flooring that forms the floor — also, as a rule, wooden. If necessary, the space between the beams is filled with the heat -insulating material and is sewn down from below. The main advantage is a price, much lower than that of reinforced concrete structures. In addition, for the installation of the ceiling, you do not need to adjust the heavy equipment.