ᐅ House Photos Discussion Corner – Share Your Home Pictures!

Bookstar schrieb:
It settles over time because it is not built on solid ground. And if you drive a car on it, depressions will form. Unfortunately, this cannot be avoided.

I will report back on this in 5-10 (?) years.

Not much is happening at our place right now; we are still waiting for the windows (but they are finally scheduled to be delivered today).

The controlled residential ventilation system for the basement was installed on the ground floor:

Also, the entrance area was "dressed up," meaning the facade cladding was completed:

The stylish temporary entrance door remains unchanged!

Now I’m curious to see what happens today. Unfortunately, neither of us can be there to watch the first windows being installed. FINALLY! The delays with the aluminum delivery have cost us almost 4 weeks. Well, electrical and plumbing work has started, but working in the dark isn’t very exciting. With the windows in place, the house will finally be bright again, and hopefully, when the sun shines in, it will feel warm again too.

We have also decided to apply a glaze to the ceiling, which until now has remained natural spruce. Definitely a UV-resistant glaze, so it won’t darken further, and we might mix in a bit of white. We have seen HOW dark a spruce ceiling can get, and we want to avoid that.
We will probably have to glaze the ground floor ceiling upside down since it is already installed, but for the upper floor, the ceiling material will be delivered soon, so we can paint it before it is fitted. This will probably be our weekend and holiday project for the next few weeks. Hopefully, by then, it will be daylight and warm inside (meaning not only windows but also sealed).

Climbee schrieb:

We also decided to apply a glaze to the ceiling, which had so far remained natural spruce. Definitely with a UV-resistant glaze, so it won’t darken over time, and we might mix in a little white tint. We have seen HOW dark a spruce ceiling can get; we want to avoid that.

@Climbee I can only HIGHLY recommend that to you! The wood darkens a lot and turns an unpleasant yellow-brown. We used Woca Panel White. It applies easily. Just don’t take long breaks during application, or the overlap marks become difficult to blend.
In my previous house, we used Osmo UV protection followed by white oil (also from Osmo). That wasn’t nearly as good!

Climbee schrieb:
Still unchanged, the stylish temporary entrance door!

I am always amazed by the "vintage" construction site door.

What surprises me is that a timber house builder, who otherwise uses wood for everything that isn’t nailed or bolted down, chooses to use a paving layer with sand-lime bricks for the impact sound insulation (?)

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If I understand correctly, this not only helps with sound insulation but also with reducing floor vibrations.

Bookstar schrieb:
Nobody uses concrete under paving; that would completely defeat the purpose. How would water infiltrate then??

Have you ever heard of pervious concrete or single-grain mortar?