ᐅ Demolition of a Prefabricated House – Who Has Experience with Tearing Down a House?

Section 306 does not apply, as it requires "external" factors. However, as a non-lawyer, I see fairly good chances under Section 306a (houses are, by definition, buildings used as human residences. There is no mention of them being "currently inhabited"). Possibly, the public prosecutor could also build a case based on the endangerment of neighboring houses (assuming, hopefully, that nothing actually spreads, otherwise the case is clear).

Aside from that, the fire department is usually too quick, and their intervention generally does not solve the problem.

toxicmolotow schrieb:
Is it not allowed to deliberately burn down your own property in a controlled way?

Kekse schrieb:
Aside from the fact that the fire brigade usually arrives too quickly, and the action generally doesn’t solve the problem anyway.

The idea isn’t entirely wrong: offering the fire department the opportunity to burn down the building as a training exercise.

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It will probably be similar to working on old timber-framed buildings.

Wall and floor coverings, ceiling panels, electrical cables, and plumbing pipes are removed; roof tiles and possibly insulation material are taken out; the timber is extracted with an excavator and stacked separately. Any construction debris is inspected to determine its contamination class, as disposing of wood can be expensive.

The only solution is to request quotes. We searched for about a year. One company wanted over 100,000 euros for demolition in summer 2016 when quoting in autumn 2015, later for gutting in winter, and demolition in spring 2017 it was only 40,000. We had a lot of debris due to the demolition of outbuildings.

How much needs to be demolished and the disposal costs depend on the federal state. Keep looking.

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much for all the responses. For us, the plan is to keep the basement and build anew on top of it after the prefabricated house has been dismantled. I expected it to be expensive, but the figures I’m reading here are quite something... I’m curious to see how high the first quotes will be.

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Susi

Susi_90 schrieb:
For us, the plan was to keep the basement and build new on top of it after the prefab house was taken down.

I still see this (probably as one of the few) as a new trend.

Susi_90 schrieb:
I thought it would be expensive, but the numbers I’m reading here are no joke...

As I said, I would carefully consider whether the planned house could be developed from the existing one. There are gradually more carpentry companies operating as “prefab house manufacturers.” One of them might be able to make a suitable proposal.

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11ant schrieb:
I think I (probably one of the few) am seeing a new trend here.

Trend? I hear surprisingly often that people want to keep the basement. Sometimes I think it’s just false hope to save significant costs.

I’ve talked to acquaintances (an architect) and relatives (building authority), and reusing the basement only offers minimal cost advantages, if any, because a basement from 1968 is poorly insulated. (In our case, it’s single-layer masonry made of sand-lime bricks, sealed with bitumen sheets—nothing else). Insulating and renovating the basement (half of it is living space due to the sloping site, but there’s moisture issues and it’s in really poor condition) doesn’t gain much compared to building a new basement.
The basement floor plan is about 16 x 10 meters (52 x 33 feet), which is even larger than the desired new house. We were strongly advised against having a basement larger than the house itself.

For the upcoming demolition quotes, I’m asking for both options (with and without the basement), but it looks like we’ll just remove it entirely.

11ant schrieb:
As I said, I would cautiously consider whether the target house could be developed from the existing house. More and more carpentry companies are positioning themselves as “prefabricated house manufacturers.” One of them might come up with a viable proposal.

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No offense, but that sounds like a DIY solution. I definitely don’t want to live in a prefabricated house from 1968. That thing is going away.