ᐅ If Building Again – What Would You Do Differently?

@Hausbautraum20

Raising roller shutters is really something only complete beginners do. Anyone who has made a few mistakes already knows how the shutter slats can be on the lawn within seconds, almost silently.

Mycraft schrieb:

@Hausbautraum20

Raising roller shutters—that’s really something only absolute beginners do. Anyone who’s not a beginner knows how roller shutter panels can be laid flat on the lawn within seconds, almost silently.

I wouldn’t know, for example. And with professional burglars who conduct house surveillance, I wouldn’t know how to protect myself 100%:

- RC2-rated windows are good but not unbeatable (we will have them).
- Window panes with a security film applied, preventing them from breaking easily, were "unaffordable" for us.
- Having a camera is good—you can monitor the break-in :-)
- Then there’s the question whether too much visible security might actually attract professional burglars more?

The only thing I can imagine would be an acoustic alarm connected to a motion detector. Everything else is helpful but doesn’t prevent the break-in.

Tom1978 schrieb:

I wouldn’t know, for example.

Perfect, that shows us you’re not a burglar 🙂

Tom1978 schrieb:

Everything else is helpful but does not actually prevent a break-in.

Most common and simple security measures are designed not to prevent but to delay entry. It just has to take longer to get in than at the neighbor’s place, as silly as that may sound.

kati1337 schrieb:

What’s the point of closing the roller shutters when going to bed?

When you want to sneak to the fridge at night without being seen...

Best burglar protection: look like there’s nothing worth stealing.
So, park your old/small car in front and the nicer car behind the house.
Put an old tube TV in the street-facing room.
Don’t immediately repaint plaster if it looks a bit worn.
Don’t have a robotic lawn mower; mow with a manual reel mower instead.
Don’t have the landscaping perfectly done by a garden contractor before moving in; spend years just shifting soil around on weekends yourself.
Use Euro pallets as entrance decks and terraces, possibly covered with artificial turf—but not the one with blade-like fibers, just plain green carpet.
No concrete or steel pools, only inflatable pools from Pearl.
No Steinel lamps, but outdoor and garden lamps from discount stores!
And of course, don’t lower the roller shutters on vacation (they don’t help anyway, as mentioned). Better yet, don’t go on vacation at all, just spend the whole summer lying on inflatable sun loungers in the garden, listening to the noise from a cheap radio from Bangladesh (China or Malaysia would be too expensive)...

Yaso2.0 schrieb:

As you know, we are right in the middle of it too, and until recently, I was one of those who thought you only build once in a lifetime. By now, I think that with the ultimate mega plot, I would take the chance and build again (I always think of @11ant’s statement when I consider this..)

In the Kreuzberg nights of the Blattschuß brothers, they say one of the thirty beers from yesterday must have been bad. In that spirit, I have to ask: which of my seventeen thousand statements are you thinking of?

Yaso2.0 schrieb:

4. I would definitely use the life-size floor plan service and, as (either @haydee or @hampshire) always recommends, place the furniture directly on the floor plan at true-to-scale dimensions and mark it accordingly.

Yes, I was pointed to the "life-size floor plan" by friends via messenger, since I don’t normally watch shows like “Dragon’s Den” (and therefore feel completely lost when people in a neighboring thread rave about the houses from “The Perfect Dinner”) – but I am really impressed by this idea.

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Pinkiponk schrieb:

I would like to ask why. Background: We are currently planning quite a few recessed ceiling spots, which will of course be complemented by table lamps, floor lamps, etc.

Relatively expensive and overrated.
We have those in the bathroom and bedroom. Our reason was simply "because everyone has them" – just the trend.
But we hardly ever turn them on; in the bathroom we have good mirror lighting plus indirect lighting by the bathtub, and in the bedroom we have a switch to control the bedside lights. There are so many beautiful lamps that provide similar or nicer light when we need it. And I’m already dreading the next ceiling repaint!

kati1337 schrieb:

I have to ask a basic question – what’s the idea behind closing the roller shutters when going to bed? I can understand it in the bedroom to keep it dark (if you like that), but in the living room? Energy saving?
I think I’ve missed something because we only use our roller shutters occasionally.

As I said, we rarely close ours as well. I also like to enjoy the garden view in the dark and look outside.

hanse987 schrieb:

Just so you know, roller shutters do not provide real burglary protection.

motorradsilke schrieb:

Energy saving and burglary protection. Of course, a roller shutter is no miracle solution against break-ins, but it does create additional effort and noise if someone tries to overcome it.

Roller shutters do pose an obstacle to burglars, but they are no real protection.
If I were a jeweler, my home would be like Fort Knox. Or a bank manager or relative of Reemtsa.
But since I work in the largest security company in the country, I can say in general (even though I dislike generalizations): at night, companies are targeted; during the day, residential homes. Anyone who feels safer with roller shutters should use them. Everyone should do as they wish. Nothing is self-evident, trendy, or naturally modern. They provide functionality where the occupant needs it.