How high should a residential house wall be?

A lot of my clients has asked me how high an ideal wall should be, considering wall height from the floor to ceiling or floor to decking height. The guiding principle here should be what the building is being designed for. As builders of mostly residential structures, we are going to concern ourselves with who difference it makes when walls are high or low. A high ceiling comes with some advantages, it's more roomy, more adaptable to fanciful lights and decorations. It also has more chances of improved ventilation. A lower ceiling on the other hand gives you less room to play with. But what are the design improvements to make when asking for more walls? The designer sob the building should calculate for more loads, owing to the increase in height, about 10% additional weight should be planned for, and contractors should take note to use best practices for higher walls as with other walls. Walls in Nigeria are usually 9 courses of blocks before lintel, the lintel forms about the height of another block, while 2 more blocks are added to the top n of the lintel to make it 12 blocks (11 blocks and 1 lintel line) The decking comes with a beam line which adds another line that should ideally make it 3 meters or 13 courses in total. But if the design is a higher wall like the one pictured, it's a total of 13 courses high if you add the lintel, plus the decking beam which will make it 14 courses or 3.3 meters in total. For more information about block height or others, call us on 080 333 50 750. Thanks.