ᐅ Building a House with TuC and Modifications – Your Thoughts?
Created on: 11 Apr 2019 21:52
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derkobi
Hello construction experts and enthusiasts, I have been reading along for a while and now I need some advice.
We want to build with TuC here in Saxony, postal code area 02.
The companies that build for TuC here have a good reputation and there is a lot of building activity at the moment.
Most people simply build an affordable house, called Standard eco Baustein 1. Unfortunately, posting links is not allowed. We want to make a few small changes if they make sense.
We would like to increase the exterior wall thickness from 24cm (9.5 inches) to 36.5cm (14 inches), using aerated concrete from Porit in monolithic construction.
The additional cost is about 7,300€ (the foundation slab will also be larger to maintain the living space). The rest will be adjusted to the stronger walls – roof, windowsills, etc.
If worthwhile, we would replace the gas condensing boiler with an air-to-water heat pump (Vaillant aroTherm Split vwl 75/5) with Unitower vwl 78/5 IS.
Additional cost: 6,000€.
Underfloor heating throughout the house.
The house model is Flair 125, where 125 stands for the square meters.
One and a half stories.
What are your thoughts on this?
Kind regards,
Kobi
We want to build with TuC here in Saxony, postal code area 02.
The companies that build for TuC here have a good reputation and there is a lot of building activity at the moment.
Most people simply build an affordable house, called Standard eco Baustein 1. Unfortunately, posting links is not allowed. We want to make a few small changes if they make sense.
We would like to increase the exterior wall thickness from 24cm (9.5 inches) to 36.5cm (14 inches), using aerated concrete from Porit in monolithic construction.
The additional cost is about 7,300€ (the foundation slab will also be larger to maintain the living space). The rest will be adjusted to the stronger walls – roof, windowsills, etc.
If worthwhile, we would replace the gas condensing boiler with an air-to-water heat pump (Vaillant aroTherm Split vwl 75/5) with Unitower vwl 78/5 IS.
Additional cost: 6,000€.
Underfloor heating throughout the house.
The house model is Flair 125, where 125 stands for the square meters.
One and a half stories.
What are your thoughts on this?
Kind regards,
Kobi
Yosan schrieb:
We are building the Flair 152 re... I’m not exactly sure how the floor plans and so on differ.
Downstairs, we also reduced the utility room and instead added a shower in the bathroom... we also chose a larger washbasin (by the way, that was an extra cost of under €5)I find the kitchen incredibly large. Did you leave it like that? How are you furnishing it? Like in the example?
ypg schrieb:
I think the kitchen is incredibly huge. Did you keep it like that? How are you planning to furnish it? Like in the example?Yes, we kept it that way but widened the passage to the dining area. I recently showed how we want to arrange it in the kitchen pictures thread (you probably remember the bottle racks in the island, where I don’t actually want to put bottles).Yosan schrieb:
Yes, we left it as it was but widened the passage to the dining room. How we plan to furnish it, I recently showed in the kitchen pictures thread (you surely remember the bottle racks in the island, where I don’t actually want to place bottles)Yes, that’s right, the "asymmetrical" kitchen.
Sorry that I didn’t connect that in my mind just now.
ypg schrieb:
Yes, that's right, the "asymmetrical" kitchen
Sorry that I didn’t connect that in my mind just now Exactly
No problem... it would be crazy to expect you to have every post and its related users memorized right away
Yosan schrieb:
Exactly
No problem... it would be crazy if you kept track of every post along with all the users involved A lot is possible. But I can’t keep up with @11ant. I think he maintains an Excel spreadsheet about us and has already cataloged all our houses in a table format.
derkobi schrieb:
Something that just came to mind—has anyone actually had a Flair home built? The other questions were generally about Town & Country. There isn’t much you can say that applies universally about such companies (cooperation / franchise brands), because regional representatives tend to achieve different levels of customer satisfaction. Naturally, you can mainly comment on how well you manage with the specific house model itself—and in my experience, all Flair models tend to be quite well suited to the needs of regular homeowners. In my opinion, you won’t encounter any trouble with the model itself in any “size” that would prevent it from working well in practice. It’s functional and neat, just not aimed at customers of Huf Haus or Weberhaus type homes, but that’s by design.
ypg schrieb:
But I can’t compete with @11ant. I think he keeps an Excel spreadsheet about us. I’m just burdened with a good memory—as the name-giving animal is. Mostly, I can remember individual comments made on a topic (meaning comments relevant only to that topic), and then I enter those into the forum search. I don’t like Excel spreadsheets. But I don’t “scan” the forum; I just remember threads I’ve participated in. So I have no memory of specific kitchen or financing discussions, since I mostly skip those topics.
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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