ᐅ Building a Single-Family Home Suitable for Extended Absences – What Should You Consider?
Created on: 7 May 2018 08:22
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Hello everyone!
What should be considered when planning and building a single-family house if you know that you will often be away? It should all work smoothly, with solutions in place for any expected situation, regardless of whether you are there or not. Realistically, I would expect a maximum absence of four weeks.
I’ll start a list here and would appreciate any additions:
- Complete security system with perimeter protection, smoke, water, and gas detectors
- Full outdoor video surveillance with motion detection
- Connection to a monitoring center
- Notifications to the monitoring center in case of power outage or heating failure
- The monitoring center should be able to remotely open the driveway gate and front door
- The monitoring center should have the ability to make announcements around the house via loudspeakers
- No roller shutters (not even automatic ones)
- Roof drainage entirely passive, without the need to pump out infiltration pits during heavy rain
- Automated garden irrigation
- Garden design without large lawn areas, possibly with a robotic lawn mower
- Trash bins must be accessible from the outside for waste collection services
The only remaining requirement is that someone regularly collects the mail. Have I forgotten anything else?
Matthias
What should be considered when planning and building a single-family house if you know that you will often be away? It should all work smoothly, with solutions in place for any expected situation, regardless of whether you are there or not. Realistically, I would expect a maximum absence of four weeks.
I’ll start a list here and would appreciate any additions:
- Complete security system with perimeter protection, smoke, water, and gas detectors
- Full outdoor video surveillance with motion detection
- Connection to a monitoring center
- Notifications to the monitoring center in case of power outage or heating failure
- The monitoring center should be able to remotely open the driveway gate and front door
- The monitoring center should have the ability to make announcements around the house via loudspeakers
- No roller shutters (not even automatic ones)
- Roof drainage entirely passive, without the need to pump out infiltration pits during heavy rain
- Automated garden irrigation
- Garden design without large lawn areas, possibly with a robotic lawn mower
- Trash bins must be accessible from the outside for waste collection services
The only remaining requirement is that someone regularly collects the mail. Have I forgotten anything else?
Matthias
haydee schrieb:
Good visibility is discouraging. That is often true, but not always. In my specific case, it is precisely the good visibility in the rear area that causes people to climb over the fence at night to vandalize an outbuilding or throw stones at it. So: Good visibility does not always discourage, but can also encourage.
Matthias
Well, there are two houses in the front area of the property—one where I live and the other where my parents live. In the long term, I plan to build another one toward the back. Since there is also a house at the back of the neighboring property, this should be allowed according to §34. So, there will always be people living in the front. However, they won’t always be aware of everything that happens in the back.
Strange priorities.
Statistically, a burglary happens to you once every 100 years. But someone who ventilates the house to prevent mold doesn’t get considered?
At the top of the list, I would put automatic ventilation. You benefit from it while you are at home.
Otherwise, it would be smart to actually live in the house or have someone live in it. Instead of a lawn-mowing robot, a gardener would make more sense.
Statistically, a burglary happens to you once every 100 years. But someone who ventilates the house to prevent mold doesn’t get considered?
At the top of the list, I would put automatic ventilation. You benefit from it while you are at home.
Otherwise, it would be smart to actually live in the house or have someone live in it. Instead of a lawn-mowing robot, a gardener would make more sense.
Or not build at all; high-security buildings are the responsibility of the state.
I mean this seriously: anyone who experiences such fears and wants to equip themselves with a 2-meter (6.5-foot) high fence and other gadgets should move into the fourth floor of an apartment building.
I mean this seriously: anyone who experiences such fears and wants to equip themselves with a 2-meter (6.5-foot) high fence and other gadgets should move into the fourth floor of an apartment building.
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