In the picture below you'll see part of a 40 house site that I was site manager on.
All the houses had trussed rafters. All had electrical chases in the walls in which was fitted electrical conduit.---All the central heating pipework was also hidden.---Suspended floors make homes for vermin and spiders beneath them.----A concrete floor with the correct insulated bed stops all the heat loss you get with suspended floors.---No movement of any internal walls due to floors moving and creaking.---The depth of joists is the main factor not width as they take a vertical load.
All the houses in the picture below were 3 or 4 bedroom detached houses.
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