Floor plan review single-family house with basement on a slight slope

I hope you stick with it here now and report a little.

Everything’s a bit much at the moment, the toddler’s daycare acclimation is dragging on, the older one was sick, lots of work, a meeting with the landscape architect is coming up, still looking for a civil engineer (at least a decent offer came in yesterday), photovoltaics are on my mind, checking out tile centers...

Thematically I should actually distribute these things into different threads (solar, kitchen, floors...), but that would take even more time. So I’ll just "dump" it here as bullet points for now:

[*]We have now fixed the financing stuff for 20 years, documents have just gone to the broker. Yesterday I had spontaneous talks with 3 other places, including the house bank and the local savings bank – none could offer anything comparable or better.
[*]This morning we finalized the kitchen – initially we assumed €15k as a lump sum in our calculation, then planned a "dream kitchen" (just under €30k) and now (slightly) reduced that to a reasonable version of the dream kitchen. Our agreed pain threshold was €20k, after sharp calculations by the kitchen builder we’re now at €20,400, and the drywall builder will do the encasement (that was included in the kitchen builder’s €30k before, but those are comparatively peanuts – if that term is even allowed here).
[*]Photovoltaics with storage seemed reasonable to me and the solar installer’s quote sounds plausible too – but after researching in the forum it’s all devilry and optimistically calculated and so on... mentally I had almost crossed it off, but now I’m thinking again.
[*]To hopefully make (some) progress with the floors, we took sample boards from the kitchen builder so we can look at the color tones together – you just can’t do that from memory.

Quick update: After some back and forth (and RUNNING after) regarding the civil engineers, who apparently all have more than enough to do, everything is up and running :)

In the week before Christmas, the first containers and the "gutting crew" (plus a nicely shaped portable toilet) arrived on Monday, the 22-ton excavator came on Wednesday or Thursday, and on 27.12. they started tearing down the old house as well as the neighboring barn. This could/should have been finished last year, but since the weather was terrible and the excavator shouldn’t tumble down the slope, the last remains were excavated on January 3rd and 4th. Now there are only two full large containers left, but the house is gone and everything looks so unusually different. The people from the village also regularly stop and watch :oops:
Next week a slightly smaller tracked excavator will come, which will dig the construction pit and also bring in gravel. (Otherwise the big excavator would eventually be “trapped” behind the construction pit and wouldn’t be able to get away, at least not without destroying the slopes and the gravel bed.)
We will probably have a construction kick-off meeting with site managers next week regarding house construction, civil engineering and basement construction; maybe the landscape architect will also join so we can discuss the reuse of the excavated material directly and avoid unnecessary back and forth. The surveyor now has to come again after the demolition, the batter board has to be set up.....

It’s all exciting, and it always feels like there’s something to do or coordinate - but: it’s going!

A construction startup meeting with site managers regarding house construction, civil engineering, and basement construction will probably take place again next week; possibly the landscape architect will also join so that we can directly discuss the further use of the excavation material and avoid unnecessary back and forth.

It is definitely nice to hear from you again!

Thank you very much for the flowers


Actually, I would like to report more often, but there is no time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Many thanks for the flowers Actually, I would like to report more often, but there is simply no time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know that. You do have a construction insurance that theoretically takes care of everything, but: trust is good, control is better :cool: We are right in the middle of it too. Theoretically, the masonry work is supposed to start on Monday. How did the price develop for you? The 320k according to the architects seemed more than just optimistic to me :)

Hello there, The 320k was without the basement – and without special requests. The data on page 1 still came from the time of the rough "pre-sampling". After much back and forth, it turned out to be the nicer solid wood staircase, the more comfortable roof windows, the more expensive front door….. In the end, we are now at just under 360k€, but a) we are relatively sure that there are no bigger surprises or gaps left b) we approached the financing with a bit of a buffer What I completely forgot to mention:

I am always a fan of placing doors so that a cupboard fits behind them. That would be easily possible in the children's rooms. This way dead space becomes possible storage space for "stuff" :)

...about 30 cm in the west child’s room and soon half a meter in the south child’s room, I would estimate.

We did it exactly like that