ᐅ User Experiences with Air Source Heat Pumps, Wood Stoves, Solar Systems, and Noise Issues

Sorry, I don’t find that appealing. On the upper floor, there are only long, narrow rooms (except for the bathroom), which are difficult to furnish.

You really don’t have any special requirements that would require reinventing the wheel. There are thousands of (nice, functional) standard floor plans available online.

Jaydee schrieb:
Sorry, I don’t find that appealing. On the upper floor, there are only long, narrow rooms (except for the bathroom), which are difficult to furnish.

You really don’t have any special requirements that would mean you need to reinvent the wheel. There are thousands of (nice, functional) standard floor plans available online.

She’s right! 🙂

Good evening,

You probably won’t like the answer 😀

Petri schrieb:

The result was that we completely redesigned the plan.

It looks like a VI plan from the colleague who is your green competitor, which would explain why it seems so uninspired.

Petri schrieb:

Whether with or without KfW 70 is not yet decided, but the heating system is now set to be an air-to-water heat pump with solar support. I hope our price/cost expectations are at least somewhat realistic now.

If the site conditions don’t contradict it, it should be possible to build an air-to-water heat pump system to achieve a KfW 70 efficiency house. What exactly the solar support is supposed to achieve is not clear to me.

Petri schrieb:

There aren’t many possibilities for the room layout given the floor plan size.

That is not true at all; the external dimensions of the building envelope actually allow for many design options. Attached you will find the ground floor of a single-family house handed over about a year ago with almost identical outer dimensions. For our clients, a home office on the ground floor was essential—you could assign it to the living room and later, in old age, open it up again using a drywall partition.

We implemented a similar floor plan with a straight staircase; even then, the rooms on the upper floor turned out nicer than in your example.

Sorry, but you asked me...

Regards, Bauexperte

Thanks for the honest opinions. They help me more than if everything were sugar-coated.

Bauexperte schrieb:
We realized a similar floor plan with a straight staircase; even then, the rooms in the attic turned out nicer than in your example.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to think it over again. 😉 Now I’m curious to see the responses from the construction companies. I wonder if any of them will be that honest and share their real opinion.

Why does the floor plan have to be so square? What does the plot of land look like?

Petri schrieb:
Now I am curious about the responses from the construction companies. I wonder if any of them will be honest and share their opinions.

I hardly believe that if you go there with a finished floor plan, anyone will criticize it or say "that looks awful."
Instead, go without a floor plan, explain what you need, and see if they will work with you to develop a suitable floor plan.