ᐅ Recommendations for Solid Timber House Builders in Schleswig-Holstein
Created on: 21 Jul 2020 22:25
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bauking01
Hello everyone, we are about to start our house construction project near Heide in Dithmarschen and are considering possibly building a solid wood house. The question is which providers would be suitable for this. Maybe someone here in the forum has experience with local companies?
Of course, I have come across, for example, Fjorborg, but I believe they work with timber frame construction rather than solid wood, which is quite different in terms of quality. Besides that, from various people’s experiences, I have heard that local providers are often more reliable and offer better deals.
What is your opinion on this, and can you recommend some companies with whom you have had positive experiences in and around Heide?
Of course, I have come across, for example, Fjorborg, but I believe they work with timber frame construction rather than solid wood, which is quite different in terms of quality. Besides that, from various people’s experiences, I have heard that local providers are often more reliable and offer better deals.
What is your opinion on this, and can you recommend some companies with whom you have had positive experiences in and around Heide?
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bauking0124 Jul 2020 20:3511ant schrieb:
I’m still missing the "why" – preferences should have reasons (and fellow discussants should know them).For one, I prefer the look of wooden houses over conventional brick houses. Especially modern ones with a cubic design and weathered wood appeal to me. However, such houses probably cost significantly more than the common wooden houses, like the Scandinavian-style ones. I don’t think I’ll be able to convince my wife for a design that looks too modern.
Besides that, I generally appreciate the positive ecological impact and the healthy indoor climate of a wooden house. My concern, on the other hand, is the noise transmission.
So much for my reasons.
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pagoni202024 Jul 2020 20:45bauking01 schrieb:
I probably won’t be able to convince my wife to go for a design that looks too modern. Who knows what a bouquet of pink carnations can achieve!
bauking01 schrieb:
Besides, I generally appreciate the positive ecological impact and the healthy climate …neither of which necessarily occurs just because a house is made of wood.
Stone houses can be any shape and can be clad with wood.
Wood and ecology is mostly marketing. The wood does not come from the local mixed forest nearby. The wood was not carefully hand-cut and pulled to the nearest path with a logging horse.
The climate inside a wooden house can be good, but it doesn’t have to be. I cannot tell the difference between stone, timber frame, and solid wood construction.
Wooden houses are not necessarily more prone to noise transmission.
What do you understand by a wooden house?
Wood and ecology is mostly marketing. The wood does not come from the local mixed forest nearby. The wood was not carefully hand-cut and pulled to the nearest path with a logging horse.
The climate inside a wooden house can be good, but it doesn’t have to be. I cannot tell the difference between stone, timber frame, and solid wood construction.
Wooden houses are not necessarily more prone to noise transmission.
What do you understand by a wooden house?
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Daniel-Sp24 Jul 2020 21:24bauking01 schrieb:
On one hand, I prefer the appearance of wooden houses over conventional brick houses. Especially the modern cubic-style with weathered wood appeals to me. However, such houses probably cost significantly more than the common wooden houses like the Swedish-style ones.The facade, when constructed with good quality, is ventilated from behind and hung in front. You have flexibility in how it is designed. Whether it’s Swedish style or cubic design doesn’t really matter. What truly counts is the main wall, though you usually don’t see it. Therefore, you can’t judge the quality of construction based on the facade alone. There are high-quality houses with Swedish-style facades and more basic houses with facades that appear high-quality in cubic design. You should study the topic a bit more in depth.
bauking01 schrieb:
That’s the background to my reasons.I don’t know much about your wife’s opinion, but regarding the other points, I can already give you three pieces of good news. 1. Whether a house is built from stone or timber, these days it’s hardly distinguishable even for a layperson. I’ve been involved in this for four decades, and in most new housing developments today, I wouldn’t bet on identifying the construction method correctly. In very few cases, the timber frame prefab house—which you trust the least—actually has the advantage when it comes to the structural feasibility of many designed ideas. But these cases are too rare to claim any overall superiority of one system. More than 80% of building concepts can be implemented convincingly with all types of construction.
2. Mistakes that affect acoustics can be made with any building method; it’s the design of various connection details that matters. No construction type has an inherent disadvantage in this regard. I often wouldn’t bet on the acoustics either—nor on indoor climate, which is similar. So from the start, a homeowner doesn’t need to get discouraged just because their supposed “best method” only has a limited number of local providers.
3. Indoor space and living climate are complex. For example, clay plaster on a masonry house won’t make you any less comfortable than a cork floor in a timber yurt. In terms of building biology, there are many shades of gray between paradise and disaster.
So try to free yourself—at least as a thought experiment—from the building method and let’s focus on your dream house, for example, from a design perspective. In the end, I see three winners: the homeowner, the wife, and the father-in-law—all happy and satisfied with the same house. I’ve seen this many times before, and one more time won’t make much difference now.
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