ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization for Urban Villa + Considerations for Land Elevation

11ant schrieb:

No, you’re not listening properly. You don’t want to understand that you can’t just install a cable or prepare the routing for it, then calmly look at awnings once the storm has passed. Because then the awning seller will tell you: it needs to be anchored at the floor slab level, and for that, we would have needed a thermal break connector. Miss, now you’re too late – we need a huge support structure because of this.

We don’t have a thermal break connector, and the installation of the Terra canopy worked fine without it (concrete ceiling).
Two neighbors also retrofitted their awnings without any special provisions, one of them on a 36cm (14 inch) aerated concrete exterior wall.

Shiny86 schrieb:

Our future neighbor is already quite advanced with construction. He is building a garage right on his property line. Now he has informed us that the rain gutter would extend 3–4cm (1–1.5 inches) onto our property and is asking for permission before proceeding. What do you think about this?
He could install the gutter differently, but apparently it wouldn’t look good—also not for us when we look at his garage. I have no idea how to handle something like this. He’s the type of person who doesn’t really follow the rules strictly anyway, including garden design and so on. It just annoys me.

Here is your future neighbor, who doesn’t see everything quite so precisely. Our rain gutter was originally planned to be on the roof, and I only politely asked you if it would bother you if the gutter extended 3cm (1 inch) onto your property. But that was just a polite inquiry, not a notification. Our garden design has not yet been finalized because our neighbors have not yet decided how they want to arrange their gardens.

It’s just a pity that a simple polite question can lead to not-so-kind comments on a forum where we happen to be members as well.

Kind regards, your new neighbors

canerol schrieb:

Here is your future neighbor,

Yes, cool. As you know, the forum is also very active in mediation.

canerol schrieb:

We can’t start our garden landscaping yet because our neighbors haven’t decided how they want to do their garden landscaping.

And if you go through all the posts here, you can get an idea of when and how long the garden planning will take.
It’s best if you sit down with a bottle of beer by the garage before winter sets in.

So we learn: if one of the two land-use plan excerpts is a bit sparse (original sources https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissoptimierung-stadtvilla-aufschuettueberlegung.33680/page-73#post-391295 and https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissentwurf-stadtvilla-mit-keller-verbesserungsvorschlag.32523/#post-349814), then even my photographic memory does not work perfectly and I do not immediately notice the neighborhood of @Shiny86 (234) with @canerol (233)

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We also had the issue with the gutter... but it was OUR garage, and our construction manager wanted to extend the gutter onto the neighbor's property for aesthetic reasons / because it’s easier...
we refused because it simply isn’t allowed / permitted... if the neighbor’s house is ever sold, I don’t want to argue with the new owner... a garage is a boundary structure and has to be completely on your own property...

And when I read this here, that’s exactly why I didn’t discuss our construction here. I would have been so embarrassed if the neighbors read about all the problems we had. I don’t want anyone putting two and two together and figuring out which house this forum post is about, especially since everyone can look it up for the next 20 years even if I sell my house...
Our neighbor stole construction electricity, and I discussed it here in the forum.
At first, I was really upset, but then everything was settled privately, and things are back to normal.
It’s hard to imagine if he had read my thread.

Yes... my parents used to say to me, “... what will the neighbors think?” I never cared – and I still don’t today. Problems are discussed and resolved here, rather than swept under the rug. There’s no need to be ashamed of that.