leschaf
2022-01-11 23:26:02
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Looks a lot like Lower Saxony.
The numbers add up, it’s still significantly cheaper there than in the remote regions.
Normally it’s already double-layered, so you can blow something in and save yourself the exterior facade insulation.
Breakthroughs shouldn’t be a problem, neither the swimming wall nor the kitchen wall carry anything as far as I can tell.
Overall, I don’t think the house is bad at all, it has a lot of potential.
I would also make an opening to the swimming room, but make it closable again with a sliding door.
You could make a cozy TV room, then you only have a nice big table in the large dining/living room and no ugly TV standing there.
Yes, that’s roughly the idea. The house is pretty cool, but we’re still not sure if we want to put down >1 million € including renovation. And yes, that’s in Lower Saxony...
Two streets away, a house renovated in 2004 with a smaller and worse-oriented plot is being sold under the counter for 1 million. And that renovation is just not our style.
Hi Leschaf,
here are my rough estimates (from various renovation calculations and offers) compared to your rough estimates:
Fits, in my opinion even including switches and the odd additional socket.
Removing the floor, installing underfloor heating, new screed I would have estimated at 100 €/m²; in another thread someone recently said he managed it for 80 €. So for you about 15 K€.
I would have assumed cheaper. But I never had offers for plank flooring. Please check the combination of planks + underfloor heating. That might be tight due to wood’s poor thermal conductivity. Even for parquet with low flow temperature underfloor heating, they sometimes recommend so-called engineered parquet, which only has about a 3 mm real wood layer.
Fits.
Fits, if no frills.
Someone recently did that here:
Fits, if no frills.
If you want to commit architectural sins and just install ETICS with ugly white plaster, then you’re probably looking at just over 20 K€. But hopefully there’s something left for a nicer and lower-maintenance facade. Better calculate 30 K€.
Fits.
I never had that offered. Booked as “petty cash.” Maybe the rude awakening will come someday.
Better a heat pump, 15 K€.
Warning: You should not postpone this task more than 2 years because of insulation requirements on ownership transfer. Better do it right away. Price fits.
What about the following items?
- New water pipes? (7 K€)
- New heating pipes? (5 K€)
- Moving walls?
- Basement sealing? External sealing including earthworks and perimeter insulation about 40-50 K€. This might be important because you possibly have earth-contact living spaces in the basement floor. And the street-side basement rooms are also within the thermal envelope, as far as you can tell from the floor plans.
Great, thanks! Water pipes have already been replaced in one bathroom, not in the other. Heating pipes probably need to be done. Moving walls: I think not, the room layout works as it is (except on the ground floor where the breakthroughs are to be). Drainage was installed around half the house - basically in the basement level towards the garden and on the right side as seen from the garden - so where basement living spaces are also located. But I didn’t find the other rooms damp either - I will explicitly ask the appraiser again this weekend.