Nordlys
2018-01-26 13:28:59
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O God. I would not accept an order for firecrackers. The lawyer would already have to be factored in there.
Honestly? I demand that I be allowed to do my work and that people trust I know what I’m doing. I try to do the same for others. Meaning, if they did the masonry, I trusted that they did it right and only checked the obvious (window width, door in the right place, etc.). I haven’t read or checked a single norm. I would have gone crazy doing that. Of course, I can fail with this approach, but so far it has worked pretty well for me. My goal was a house where I can live without constant repairs for the next 60 years. I believe I got that. Whether the insulation lasts the 60 years, I can’t say. Whether the plaster flakes off after 3 years... could happen.Not really. My roof is supposed to be just as tight, my electrical installation just as safe, my heating pipes just as durable. Performance is of course another matter. Do you know the normative requirements for the number of sockets per circuit in your house? Was the voltage drop calculated or measured in your case? For many other questions in the single-family house sector, there are either no normative requirements or very poor ones (example: soundproofing in residential construction, durability of facade paints). Missing standards are contractually supplemented in industrial buildings and especially in data centers, or corresponding classifications are defined by private companies. For house building, this is actually essential too. Recently we had the topic "allowable air exchange rate in the BD test according to the Energy Saving Ordinance"; 3/h is allowed, which would be shoddy workmanship. I have regulated many details in my building contract, today I would also include a limit value of 0.5 here.
Who has a house with an air exchange rate of 3 or just below?
Not everything that limps is a comparison. The additional financial effort is out of proportion to the benefit. Otherwise, you will receive approval. For a reputable construction company, complying with the applicable building standards is not the problem. They just need to be reminded of it kindly from time to time.Compared to the standards in industrial construction, power plants or data centers, most single-family homes are botched.
The purpose of standards is to define minimum requirements. Whether these are difficult or easy to achieve is another matter. Likewise, whether minimum standards are always "absurdly bad."I don't know anyone either. Should be an example of absurdly bad normative limit values.
"just barely" does not exist. Either fulfilled or not fulfilled, that counts. You pay for compliance with a standard, nothing more, that costs. Strange statement from an expert.just barely meets the German standards
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