ᐅ Floor plan design shortly before submitting the building permit application
Created on: 2 Oct 2017 23:25
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R.Hotzenplotz
Hello everyone!
As some users have requested before, I’m now starting a new thread with the current planning of our detached house, which is about to be finalized.
These are the preliminary drawings for the building permit / planning permission application, and I have one last chance to review them and point out any issues.
It still seems to me that there is less than 1.20m (4 feet) of space between the two wardrobes in the dressing room. Or am I seeing this wrong? Apparently, the rooms on the left and right were overlooked and not adjusted accordingly.
Two Velux ceiling spotlights are still planned to illuminate the upper floor hallway.
In the basement, on the right side in the upper room, a window similar to the one on the left basement side is an option.
We still haven’t decided on the T30 fire-rated door to the garage, even though it is shown in the plans. Most likely, for safety reasons and the limited use of the kitchen at the other end of the house, we will eventually forgo it.
User 11ant pointed out that the right window in child’s room 2 is suboptimally positioned. However, this could still be changed after submitting the building permit / planning permission application. Our architect thinks moving the window to the left would negatively affect the house’s exterior appearance. We’ll have to see about that.
As some users have requested before, I’m now starting a new thread with the current planning of our detached house, which is about to be finalized.
These are the preliminary drawings for the building permit / planning permission application, and I have one last chance to review them and point out any issues.
It still seems to me that there is less than 1.20m (4 feet) of space between the two wardrobes in the dressing room. Or am I seeing this wrong? Apparently, the rooms on the left and right were overlooked and not adjusted accordingly.
Two Velux ceiling spotlights are still planned to illuminate the upper floor hallway.
In the basement, on the right side in the upper room, a window similar to the one on the left basement side is an option.
We still haven’t decided on the T30 fire-rated door to the garage, even though it is shown in the plans. Most likely, for safety reasons and the limited use of the kitchen at the other end of the house, we will eventually forgo it.
User 11ant pointed out that the right window in child’s room 2 is suboptimally positioned. However, this could still be changed after submitting the building permit / planning permission application. Our architect thinks moving the window to the left would negatively affect the house’s exterior appearance. We’ll have to see about that.
If the basement is outside the heated envelope, insulation will be necessary against this unheated area in my opinion. Usually, there is a staircase leading down to an anteroom with a door, and behind it the unheated space.
If the basement is within the heated envelope, I don’t see the need for a door at the bottom of the stairs.
If the basement is within the heated envelope, I don’t see the need for a door at the bottom of the stairs.
kaho674 schrieb:
Really? I know a lot of older houses, and they all have a door to the basement.
Actually, I only know houses that have a door to the basement, and that’s definitely more than just two or so. So you’re heating the basement, ground floor, and upper floor. That’s quite a lot for the area. We also don’t have a door to the basement. Why would we? We live in an older house that does have a door, but it’s always left open.
However, our basement is heated. We don’t want a cold bridge. Of course, it raises the question of how warm the rooms beyond the hallway get heated, but they don’t get cold.
In our case, the litter box will be kept in the basement as well, and that’s easier without a door.
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R.Hotzenplotz3 Dec 2017 17:12kaho674 schrieb:
Really? I know plenty of old houses, and all of them have a door to the basement. Actually, I only know houses where the basement has a door, and that’s definitely more than just a couple. So you’re heating the basement, the ground floor, and the upper floor. Given the floor area, that’s quite significant.That’s how they planned it. Would you do it differently? The basement includes guest and hobby rooms, each of which is heated.
Eldea schrieb:
But our basement is heated. Isn't it frustrating to have to heat the basement? It feels like just throwing money away. Or are you all spending a lot of time down there? What do you do in the basement?
kaho674 schrieb:
Isn’t it annoying that I have to heat the basement? I might as well just throw the money down the drain. Or are you all constantly spending time in the basement? What are you even doing down there? You are overestimating those costs.
You don’t need to set the temperature to 24°C (75°F) down there. Besides, the basement mainly loses heat upwards; it is well insulated against the surrounding soil.
What I don’t quite understand is partial heating of basements in new builds. Since the heating system is usually installed in the basement anyway, adding a few square meters of underfloor heating doesn’t make much difference in cost. In return, the rooms become fully flexible in their use. Wrapping the basement with external insulation seems like a straightforward solution to me, rather than insulating rooms inside the building against each other (plus, insulation materials are cheaper for that purpose, like XPS versus EPS).
Alex85 schrieb:
You are overestimating these costs.Okay, so you insulate the basement thoroughly and heat from the bottom up. Then the additional costs are negligible? Really?Similar topics