Franzbrot
2021-10-15 17:45:24
- #1
As I already wrote in several places, we bought a plot of land with a small settlement house (semi-detached house) from the 50s on it. The house is about 90 m2 in size and (presumably) partly cellar. The other half of the settlement house, to which we also have to build again, is not cellar. This leads to the fact that if the cellar is demolished, we would probably (?) have to have underpinning done, which sounds costly and not quite straightforward. Therefore, we have now considered whether it might be "easier" to only demolish the house, leave the cellar standing, and rebuild on top of it. Or to renovate the old house and build an extension (but here probably again the problem of different settlement behavior?). We would not only build on the cellar area or where the house now stands, but want to become significantly larger overall (about 200 m2). Therefore, my question now about experiences with building larger on an old cellar? Has anyone here done this? Is that even possible? Is there another option besides having to do the underpinning when demolishing? (Originally I thought you could just fill in the cellar. But apparently that doesn’t work (?)