ᐅ Building the interior of a new timber frame house with solid construction?

Created on: 30 Nov 2019 21:02
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hb-julia
Hello,

we are considering having a timber-framed house built.
However, it is rather unpleasant that current energy-saving regulations require insulation that covers the timber frame of the building envelope – often finished with drywall or, at best, fiber-reinforced gypsum boards.

Doesn’t it make more sense to build solid walls on the inside, for example with sand-lime bricks?
Or would that become too expensive?
11ant2 Dec 2019 22:50
hb-julia schrieb:

But what is meant by the completed questionnaire,

If you provide the completed questionnaire https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-Beitrag-Erstellung-lesen.11714/ as a kind of nutrient solution for the collective intelligence (= the rest of us forum users), we can become productive like a bacterial culture and, through dialogue with you, get closer to your house plan than if we only answer isolated questions here that don’t lead to a tangible result.
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hb-julia3 Dec 2019 09:25
Yosan schrieb:

The more durable material is, of course, stone or adobe bricks or similar... definitely not wood.
Doesn't that mean that so-called timber frame houses don’t compare to solid construction houses?
Then why do both cost about the same?
hb-julia3 Dec 2019 09:28
11ant schrieb:

If you provide the completed questionnaire https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-Beitrag-Erstellung-lesen.11714/ as a nutrient solution to the collective intelligence (= the rest of us forum users), we can become productive like a bacterial culture and work together with you to get closer to your house plan, rather than just answering isolated questions here that don’t lead to any concrete results.

Thanks, I actually hadn’t read that.
However, it is quite extensive, and there are also concerns about posting it publicly like that (I might be a bit old-fashioned). – I’ll have to think about it some more...
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Lumpi_LE
3 Dec 2019 09:34
hb-julia schrieb:

So this means that so-called timber frame houses don’t really compare to solid (masonry) houses!?
Then why do they both cost the same?
For the buyer, it doesn’t really matter whether the house would last 200, 400, or 600 years.
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nordanney
3 Dec 2019 09:34
hb-julia schrieb:

Doesn’t that mean that so-called timber-frame houses don’t compare to solid construction houses!?
Then why do both cost the same?

Because both types of houses are basically equivalent. For solid construction, you could further differentiate between modular building, clay blocks, sand-lime bricks, brick cladding, and so on.
A homebuyer — except for you in this case — usually doesn’t care whether their house will still stand in 300 years or only 250 years. Not even in 100 years. They live in the present and want to spend their life or a phase of life in the house. And that period is more like 10 to 40 years, which any house can easily withstand without collapsing.

What exactly do you want?
hb-julia3 Dec 2019 09:57
Lumpi_LE schrieb:

For the buyer, it doesn’t really matter whether the house would last 200, 400, or 600 years.
But of course it does. Nowadays, you can no longer be sure that you will want or be able to live in the house forever.