Hello everyone,
We are currently looking for a developer for our house. At the same time, of course, we are also focusing on the right design, features, and price of the house.
Building a house is truly an adventure, and as you can imagine, there are a thousand questions and it’s hard to know where to start.
What I would like to know here is whether we are on the right track with a specific offer and if it can be implemented without any major concerns.
The key details are as follows:
Single-family house with approximately 140m² (1,507 sq ft) of living space, gable roof without dormers, KfW 70 standard, and
- central mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
- triple glazing with a U-value of 0.5
- solar rooftop system for domestic hot water with a 300-liter (79-gallon) storage tank
- roller shutters on the ground floor and upper floor
- underfloor heating return circuits in bathroom and kitchen
- triangular windows in the gable ends
The price for the whole package is supposed to be 180,000 euros. Overall, I find the price fair, but of course I’m also interested in your opinion.
Then I have a few more questions:
1. The construction description has very little information about the ventilation system installation. Should I follow up on this?
2. A condensing boiler from Vaillant, Junkers, Elco, or equivalent will be installed. Is this recommended, or are there specific things I should look out for?
3. What other aspects of the construction description should I pay attention to before accepting the offer? Are there any critical points I should be aware of?
Looking forward to your answers.
Best regards,
Matthias
We are currently looking for a developer for our house. At the same time, of course, we are also focusing on the right design, features, and price of the house.
Building a house is truly an adventure, and as you can imagine, there are a thousand questions and it’s hard to know where to start.
What I would like to know here is whether we are on the right track with a specific offer and if it can be implemented without any major concerns.
The key details are as follows:
Single-family house with approximately 140m² (1,507 sq ft) of living space, gable roof without dormers, KfW 70 standard, and
- central mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
- triple glazing with a U-value of 0.5
- solar rooftop system for domestic hot water with a 300-liter (79-gallon) storage tank
- roller shutters on the ground floor and upper floor
- underfloor heating return circuits in bathroom and kitchen
- triangular windows in the gable ends
The price for the whole package is supposed to be 180,000 euros. Overall, I find the price fair, but of course I’m also interested in your opinion.
Then I have a few more questions:
1. The construction description has very little information about the ventilation system installation. Should I follow up on this?
2. A condensing boiler from Vaillant, Junkers, Elco, or equivalent will be installed. Is this recommended, or are there specific things I should look out for?
3. What other aspects of the construction description should I pay attention to before accepting the offer? Are there any critical points I should be aware of?
Looking forward to your answers.
Best regards,
Matthias
At VW, I also don’t find out who the alloy wheels actually come from. There is only a VW stamp on them. I also don’t get any information about the relationship between battery size and alternator (at best, I can order a larger battery as an extra). I have to rely on the engineers at VW having sized everything correctly.But you don’t need to know that.. The car is the finished product for which you can read tests and so on... You can thoroughly research its strengths and weaknesses in advance...
I think this could be endlessly debated. I’m in a similar situation now. I buy a product and I’m given a price for it. I know the installed components. But I try to assess whether the price is fair.The difference is that a house is not a finished “product” manufactured and tested in large quantities identically... it’s more a system of different products, which hopefully are well coordinated... And it’s exactly these components that you don’t know!
Every manufacturer has good and bad products, or products that either fit your “system” or don’t...
Whether you can personally judge if they fit or not is a different matter again...
For example, Continental supplies good car tires! However, if you have a set of Continental winter tires from your old Polo and want to put them on the 20-inch (20-inch) summer wheels of your new BMW X5, that simply doesn’t work...
The tires themselves may even have been test winners... but that doesn’t change anything...
A good example is China... the Chinese love everything that is Western. However, they do not have the same quality standards that we have. The benchmark is simply much lower. I spent three weeks in China last year, and I saw various Villeroy & Boch products in different hotels and guesthouses. 🙂 Oh dear... there were some really strange items, and sometimes it even said "Western Standard" on them... hehe
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perlenmann15 Jun 2012 17:08Der Da schrieb:
I was there on my honeymoon... had enough "personal attention" with me 🙂You bastard, cheating on your honeymoon :p