ᐅ Floor plan design shortly before submitting the building permit application
Created on: 2 Oct 2017 23:25
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R.Hotzenplotz
Hello everyone!
As some users have requested before, I’m now starting a new thread with the current planning of our detached house, which is about to be finalized.
These are the preliminary drawings for the building permit / planning permission application, and I have one last chance to review them and point out any issues.
It still seems to me that there is less than 1.20m (4 feet) of space between the two wardrobes in the dressing room. Or am I seeing this wrong? Apparently, the rooms on the left and right were overlooked and not adjusted accordingly.
Two Velux ceiling spotlights are still planned to illuminate the upper floor hallway.
In the basement, on the right side in the upper room, a window similar to the one on the left basement side is an option.
We still haven’t decided on the T30 fire-rated door to the garage, even though it is shown in the plans. Most likely, for safety reasons and the limited use of the kitchen at the other end of the house, we will eventually forgo it.
User 11ant pointed out that the right window in child’s room 2 is suboptimally positioned. However, this could still be changed after submitting the building permit / planning permission application. Our architect thinks moving the window to the left would negatively affect the house’s exterior appearance. We’ll have to see about that.
As some users have requested before, I’m now starting a new thread with the current planning of our detached house, which is about to be finalized.
These are the preliminary drawings for the building permit / planning permission application, and I have one last chance to review them and point out any issues.
It still seems to me that there is less than 1.20m (4 feet) of space between the two wardrobes in the dressing room. Or am I seeing this wrong? Apparently, the rooms on the left and right were overlooked and not adjusted accordingly.
Two Velux ceiling spotlights are still planned to illuminate the upper floor hallway.
In the basement, on the right side in the upper room, a window similar to the one on the left basement side is an option.
We still haven’t decided on the T30 fire-rated door to the garage, even though it is shown in the plans. Most likely, for safety reasons and the limited use of the kitchen at the other end of the house, we will eventually forgo it.
User 11ant pointed out that the right window in child’s room 2 is suboptimally positioned. However, this could still be changed after submitting the building permit / planning permission application. Our architect thinks moving the window to the left would negatively affect the house’s exterior appearance. We’ll have to see about that.
R.Hotzenplotz schrieb:
The earthworks were successfully completed today. Tomorrow, I will deliver the standpipe for the construction water supply, the temporary power connection will be installed, and then the shell construction will begin. Wow, things are really getting underway now. Why not take some photos for us and post them in the house pictures thread?
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R.Hotzenplotz21 Feb 2018 20:15I am happy to share some pictures.
Do you have much better weather over there? Our earthworks have been finished since December. Today we have a meeting with the shell builder at the construction site. Water and electricity have been applied for, but as long as the temperature doesn't stay above 5°C (41°F) for three days in a row, we can’t pour the foundation slab. A glance at the weather forecast is somewhat discouraging [emoji57]
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R.Hotzenplotz21 Feb 2018 20:28Yes, we only had the white layer for one day. It is completely gone. This week, construction will definitely continue. Next week might be challenging, with temperatures expected between -2 and 0 degrees Celsius (28 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit). And we haven’t yet finished backfilling the basement.
R.Hotzenplotz schrieb:
The heating installer called to say that now a bit more than 2 kW additional heating load is required and the heating quotes probably won’t hold.
It’s likely an issue between him and the general contractor. He says it’s because the window sill height was changed from 100 cm (39 inches) to 86 cm (34 inches). The dimensions are also specified in the contract (except for an additionally commissioned basement window, which hardly accounts for 2 kW).That’s just nonsense on his part.
A 15 cm (6 inches) lower window sill makes the following difference:
Assuming you have 10 linear meters of windows affected, that equals 10 m (33 feet) * 0.15 m (6 inches) = 1.5 m² (16 ft²) more window area instead of wall area.
With assumed U-values of 0.20 W/m²·K for the wall and 1.2 W/m²·K for the windows, and a temperature difference of 34 K (20°C (68°F) inside to -14°C (7°F) outside), that results in 1.00 W/m²·K * 1.5 m² * 34 K = 51 W.
So only 0.05 kW more.
Wow.
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