House construction planning: timber frame house, log facade, shed roof

Here is one with a tidy floor plan.


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Interjection from my husband, who doesn't have an account here but reads a lot:

Have the infrared heating calculated by the energy consultant to see if it is even possible with KfW40. How do you get it for half the price if it is offered for more expensive? Who installs it?

Also, the south-facing window areas play a significant role in the calculation – those are very small and narrow in your case... Due to the roof overhang, it could also get quite dark on the south side of the upper floor.

Keyword: domestic hot water heat pump:
With infrared heating, you have radiant heat and convert electricity into heat 1:1 – that is already not very efficient. If you then also use a domestic hot water heat pump, which usually converts ambient heat into hot water, I see dark times for the limits for funding. Those are something entirely different from just achieving KfW40 and are constantly being adjusted or tightened.

From the beginning, before you plan technically further, I would bring an energy consultant on board so you don’t have to overturn everything again later.

As it is currently designed, we can only submit the KfW application in 2024 because then we will fall below the zvE of 60k

You know that for this, the average of the zvE of your girlfriend and you from the years 21+22 forms the basis in the application year 2024?

my girlfriend
the energy consultant has been contacted and more or less selected, but not yet commissioned to do the calculations; we will tackle that in the near future. We assumed that it would work this way since Talishaus also builds/sells houses with IR heating and domestic hot water heat pumps. We also have the narrow windows in our current apartment, or rather here they are 20 cm wider. The guest toilet still has a window facing east, and the office/guest room still has a window facing west. The veranda and the roof overhang shade the windows since we are currently still planning without shutters/blinds.
The IR heating has a ceiling mount and is connected via a socket. The electrician is planning to install sockets on the ceiling. Either he installs them, or we do, or we take the offered ones, but those are about 4000 euros more expensive.
For example, the domestic hot water heat pump can be installed near the inverter since it produces waste heat. But we also have plans for instantaneous water heaters or simply a 150-liter hot water tank. We're not quite sure yet what it will be in the end.

You know that for the application year 2024, the average of the taxable income of your friend and you from the years 21+22 forms the basis?

exactly, that's why it works. If we apply in 23, we are way above that :) But parental leave and part-time were factors for us in 22 :)

We also have plans for instantaneous water heaters

We had also planned with instantaneous water heaters, but that exceeds the new limits... In the first calculation with the old limits, it would have been barely possible. Of course, many factors play a role, but it already had a strong impact on us. Just keep in mind roughly that achieving these values is not that easy. But if you are flexible there, then I hope it will work out for you in the end :)