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This is a prefabricated panel building from the late 1970s, located beneath the exterior cladding. It could be a WBS70 model, designed as a single-family house in the Cottbus district.

The renovated WBS70 and similar precast panel buildings now have excellent quality, with a guaranteed service life of at least 100 years.
This means the core of your single-family house has great potential.

HöKi2018 schrieb:

The slate cladding can only be installed after the eaves underlayment, and the lower rows of tiles only after the slate.

I found this discussion with @Müllerin about the gable cladding because I’m currently wondering how to properly install the slate. For us, the stair bay facing the street and the basement window are to be finished with textured plaster. Today, we saw that the gable facing the garden was also plastered. Slate is agreed upon because we didn’t want to pay for brickwork. I definitely don’t want plaster there—first, definitely not white, and second, I want to avoid having to repaint it ever again.

It looks like this now and appears “finished.” Simply nailing the slate to the insulation foam underneath won’t work. How is slate usually fastened? Does the plaster and insulation need to be removed again to install battens?

Isokrates schrieb:

That's right, the garage doors are also finished in black.
The entire garage is from Zapf, while the doors and the opener are made by Hörmann.

As far as I know, there isn't a general specification for the broom finish.
We had the plasterer provide three sample panels and then chose the medium option.
The lightest finish would hardly have been visible, and the heaviest might have caused moss growth issues on the facade because water wouldn't drain properly.

It depends on which wall you are looking at. Most were built with 36.5 cm (14 inches) bricks, especially the exterior walls.
The interior walls (like in the bathroom picture) are partly built with 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) and 17.5 cm (7 inches) thickness.

I will never understand why someone would specify an 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) wall for you... It happened to us too. What's the point? For 3.40 euros and 2 cm (0.8 inches) more living space...
Shaking my head.

OWLer schrieb:

I found this discussion with @Müllerin about the gable cladding,

😳 where? I don’t remember, and searching for gable, slate cladding, etc., brings up nothing...

but I can attach the pictures here.

From the inside, you can see that the window front is built with masonry and the sides are made of wood; the insulation (glass wool) is installed from the inside.

At the front, there is brickwork; on the sides, a protective membrane over the wood.

Unfortunately, I don't have a photo for this, but based on this picture, I assume that the moisture-resistant (?) membrane is directly covered with slate.

So, looking at your photo: if the white layer on the outside is insulation (Styrofoam?), then there definitely should be something on top that you can nail into.

Müllerin schrieb:

😳 Where? I don’t remember, and searching for gable slate cladding etc. doesn’t bring up anything...

Thanks a lot! Now I’m looking forward to the contractor’s response. According to Förch, it should be installed something like this:

I admit that “discussion” is a bit exaggerated. I meant post #2616.