ᐅ What features did you include in your house, and what did you decide to leave out?
Created on: 30 Jan 2015 14:18
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willWohnen
Hello,
When planning and building a house, you focus on the essentials and the budget. Some wishes get dropped along the way. But certain small luxuries or nice features are important to you, even if they are not strictly necessary, and you end up including them anyway.
For us, a heated conservatory was an unattainable dream. However, we treated ourselves to tiled, walk-in showers, even though they take up more space.
I would love to hear what you have given up and what you managed to include.
Best regards
When planning and building a house, you focus on the essentials and the budget. Some wishes get dropped along the way. But certain small luxuries or nice features are important to you, even if they are not strictly necessary, and you end up including them anyway.
For us, a heated conservatory was an unattainable dream. However, we treated ourselves to tiled, walk-in showers, even though they take up more space.
I would love to hear what you have given up and what you managed to include.
Best regards
We don’t need shutters for heat protection because we have air conditioning. It runs for free when the sun is shining (solar power = self-generated electricity). Additionally, the south-facing wall is insulated to Passive House standards and now has a wall thickness of 40 cm (16 inches), up from 24 cm (9.5 inches). For light control, we use curtains and pleated blinds, which are also available as blackout roller blinds. Shutters still help with cold insulation on double-glazed windows, but with the new triple-glazed windows, the inner pane always stays warm, even at -10°C (14°F) outside. So, I would doubt their effectiveness in that case as well.
I also wanted to add air conditioning and photovoltaics to the "treat yourself" category.
I also wanted to add air conditioning and photovoltaics to the "treat yourself" category.
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nordanney9 Feb 2015 11:52Elina schrieb:
We don’t need heat protection with roller shutters because we have air conditioning. It then runs for free (sun = self-generated electricity).Please don’t forget VAT and non-monetary benefits ==> self-consumption is not = free, but just a bit cheaper than purchased electricity.Bautraum2015 schrieb:
We are going with a Plewa Classic....The stove looks great. Does it require a special chimney, or can it be installed in an existing one? May I ask how much it costs?
Bautraum20159 Feb 2015 17:16As far as I know, this is a prefabricated chimney and is used during the shell construction phase. However, I believe it can also be connected to an existing system. You would need to ask for more detailed information. It costs us 4900€, thanks to good connections with our house builder. The prices can be downloaded directly from the website.
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willWohnen9 Feb 2015 17:24Thanks to all of you, this thread is still very interesting.
@MünchnerKindl: Was it worth choosing rimless toilets? Are they really much easier to keep clean?
@MünchnerKindl: Was it worth choosing rimless toilets? Are they really much easier to keep clean?
nordanney schrieb:
Please do not forget VAT and gratuitous value transfer ==> self-consumption is not free, just somewhat cheaper than purchased electricity.“Slightly” is actually an understatement. Production costs are probably around 10¢/kWh (10 cents per kilowatt-hour). That’s 15¢ less than the market price. For anything above 70% system output, I don’t even lose feed-in tariff because that portion is not allowed to be fed into the grid anyway. I have less than 20 euros in VAT per year. I think that’s manageable.
And if you include the costs mentioned above, please look at the full balance. The amount I “earn” from public transit vouchers alone each year, which I wouldn’t have without photovoltaics, far exceeds those costs. For example, there is another 120-euro voucher offer right now. This is already the third promotion this year. Even though I financed the system with a loan, I am already well in the black.
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