Building cheaply - this is how it can be done too!

Canada?!

... why stop at the front yard? Then the whole house can look like it's from the Flodders, then surely no one will come by. The question is whether you would still want to live there yourself and why you would even build your "dream house" (which also includes the garden) in the first place...?!

I do like the far north, but life in the Yukon is too tough for me. Instead of people, bears come by. Impressive little creatures.
There are differences in the districts regarding burglaries.

The thing with front yards was once mentioned in an article about burglary prevention or what burglars decide by where to break in. Whether you like that is something everyone has to decide for themselves.

I assume "Polenfenster" is meant as a synonym for inexpensive, if some homebuilders here would take the trouble to look beneath their branded goods..a large part of the electrical equipment in the house either comes from China or Turkey...but that is a well-known phenomenon.

I can say about our house components that they were purchased from German retail...whether in the end they do come from ....State xy I of course do not know..

the bricks come from Müritz
the windows and doors from Rostock
the roof tiles from Güstrow
sanitary ware from Rostock

No no, he did mean that the windows would come not from his supplier in Kiel but from another one in Stettin. Windows consist of glass, profiles, fittings. These parts go individually to smaller or larger factories or workshops where they are glued together into windows. It does make a difference whether that happens in Kiel or Stettin, although the result in Stettin does not have to be worse. Profiles from us Verka, handles Roto, hinges etc. Winkhaus. Made in Poland. Karsten

Isn't that basically the case with all craftsman services? It's not rocket science, and houses are also built in Poland. The trick in these cases is that quality management must be right and the schedule must be adhered to; if both are right, the house can also come from Hinterpforzheim.

But I admit, I have no idea about that ...

Well, your cluelessness is probably not that pronounced after all. You just haven’t noticed yet that we are indeed talking about the same thing: 9 heads plus 1 cm equals 113.5 cm; now you still allow some "play" for fitting and end up with 110 cm. Then you add four construction dimension grid steps and you get a 160 cm frame outer dimension. With plan blocks and precise work, your planner might argue that 1 cm play would be enough, then you have your 161 cm rough construction width.

In our case, the house was assembled from sand-lime plan stones (huge things that practically made up a kit), so there was no relevant construction dimension.

This view is wrong, but unfortunately popular: even large-format stones have dimensions adapted to standard construction measures. Ignoring the standard dimension grid leads to avoidable issues: with "too long" walls, you have to "pull apart" the stones. Gaps appear. These are either bridged with mesh before plastering or in the (which for plan blocks are actually intended to be dry) joints, "system-violating" mortar pockets are created. With "too short" walls, you have to saw stones (this is done with aerated concrete, costing time) or patch with small-format stones (this is done with bricks, making the wall inhomogeneous, as the small formats are often solid bricks).

160 sqm "architect’s house" split-level in the style of a suburban house, nothing off the shelf.

Yes, what now? – these are quite a few contradictions: "suburban house style" is the opposite of "architect’s house," it is a witch’s house copied on the copier for the entire settlement with a chicken coop and a rabbit hutch. It has a gable roof without knee wall and "split level" is at most the toilet halfway up the stairs.

Another way to build cheaply is with an extreme amount of own labor

Although in my opinion, it is then a bogus calculation to leave out the value of own labor in the lump sum price. You simply do not have to pay yourself, but that does not diminish its value (if done properly).

What is the roller shutter supposed to provide in terms of security?

Terms change, also the meaning of "security." The roller shutter for security still comes from the days of Ede Zimmermann.

At 37, I am a debt-free and happy homeowner. Sure, I don’t have 250 sqm of living space for that. But I do have a beautiful lake in front of the window and a nature reserve on the other side. And all that on 1000 sqm in Hamburg.

Respect. Everything earned, or may one be a little envious of luck?

In summer, I allow myself to draw a thief’s sign with chalk on the pavement.

*smile*

and it scares off the organized Eastern Europeans, who have more respect for dogs than Germans.

"Red Card for Romania" leaves me with a different impression ...

I wouldn’t break in any earlier than in 10 years in a new housing estate anyway..

It’s not necessarily the case that it’s not worth it before. The Porsche density can vary greatly there.

I assume "Polish windows" is used synonymously with inexpensive, [...]

Many "German" "manufacturers" have switched to sourcing from Poland or Slovakia instead of own production. Most are Schüco or Kömmerling licenses – whether Mr. H. or Pavel assembles them makes no difference. Pharmacists today mostly sell boxes too; traditional pharmacy practice has become very rare.

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What is probably being discussed here, however, is the "spontaneous" burglary in the sense of acquisitive crime or at least not an organized burglary...

No, absolutely not.
We do still have burglary as acquisitive crime here as well, but in relation to organized crime it is negligible.

Since I work in law enforcement for crime prevention and am not a burglar myself, I will politely withdraw from this discussion.
There are enough threads here about burglary security.