Hausi1909
2020-02-03 16:22:00
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Hello everyone,
we are currently planning our house construction and more and more questions are coming up.
Our plot (approx. 770 m²) is on a slope, which makes us tend, based on some reading, to build our house with a basement, since we would rather not dig ourselves in and look against an earth wall.
I have attached some excerpts from the development plan.
The plot is rather elongated (approx. 20 m wide and 40 m deep and rises from the street). According to the Geoportal Hessen, we have a height difference of approx. 3 m over the 40 m depth.
Then the first thought was: "Okay, then we just build with a basement." However, we then dealt with the individual height specifications from the development plan and here there could be a problem with the eaves height of 5 m (measured from the road surface edge (highest point) of the street, measured vertically in front of the middle of the building).
With the 5 m eaves height we would have to dig the basement about halfway in, right?
We had thought that one could basically enter the basement (UG) from the street at ground level and then enter the garden from the living area (EG) at ground level at the back.
How do you assess the dimensions of the development plan?
We were at the model house exhibition in Bad Vilbel over the weekend and had, among other things, a conversation with a gentleman from Fingerhaus, who suggested a kind of compact basement, which is not accessible from inside the house, but only from outside. Does anyone know this type of basement, or are there already experiences with it? Could you then not simply build a "real" basement?
We roughly calculated the costs:
House (turnkey) according to Fingerhaus (Type Sento B): approx. €300,000
Floor + walls: approx. €20,000
Additional equipment: approx. €50,000
Basement + incidental construction costs: approx. €80,000
Do you consider these figures to be reasonably realistic?
Can anyone by chance recommend construction companies from the Mittelhessen area?
Can construction companies provide a cost estimate based on the existing data or do we first need a soil survey or the exact heights etc.?
Questions upon questions, but somehow you have to start somewhere.
Thanks already for any tip or answer!

we are currently planning our house construction and more and more questions are coming up.
Our plot (approx. 770 m²) is on a slope, which makes us tend, based on some reading, to build our house with a basement, since we would rather not dig ourselves in and look against an earth wall.
I have attached some excerpts from the development plan.
The plot is rather elongated (approx. 20 m wide and 40 m deep and rises from the street). According to the Geoportal Hessen, we have a height difference of approx. 3 m over the 40 m depth.
Then the first thought was: "Okay, then we just build with a basement." However, we then dealt with the individual height specifications from the development plan and here there could be a problem with the eaves height of 5 m (measured from the road surface edge (highest point) of the street, measured vertically in front of the middle of the building).
With the 5 m eaves height we would have to dig the basement about halfway in, right?
We had thought that one could basically enter the basement (UG) from the street at ground level and then enter the garden from the living area (EG) at ground level at the back.
How do you assess the dimensions of the development plan?
We were at the model house exhibition in Bad Vilbel over the weekend and had, among other things, a conversation with a gentleman from Fingerhaus, who suggested a kind of compact basement, which is not accessible from inside the house, but only from outside. Does anyone know this type of basement, or are there already experiences with it? Could you then not simply build a "real" basement?
We roughly calculated the costs:
House (turnkey) according to Fingerhaus (Type Sento B): approx. €300,000
Floor + walls: approx. €20,000
Additional equipment: approx. €50,000
Basement + incidental construction costs: approx. €80,000
Do you consider these figures to be reasonably realistic?
Can anyone by chance recommend construction companies from the Mittelhessen area?
Can construction companies provide a cost estimate based on the existing data or do we first need a soil survey or the exact heights etc.?
Questions upon questions, but somehow you have to start somewhere.
Thanks already for any tip or answer!