we are currently planning our house construction and are at the stage of pre-selecting house providers from whom we might request an offer after advanced planning.
I actually recommend it the other way around: first discuss the preliminary draft, then pre-select based on the responses whether to continue with stone or wood design and who should then be asked for offers.
I am currently looking for providers who build in an installation level.
House manufacturers found so far who build an installation level:
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- Baufritz
Are these really the only ones who build an installation level or have I missed something somewhere?
From my point of view, you have overlooked putting the cart before the horse.
There are many reasons for a Porsche; “ignition lock on the left” would not be at the top of my list.
What is this about: are you a connoisseur of features who finds nothing good enough even from premium providers and absolutely wants the option to lay your golden speaker cables inside the wall?
We built with Schwirten & Klein – they had an installation level. I assume that for most timber construction companies that are not fully industrialized, that should not be a problem.
A regional, owner-managed provider: that would be a top criterion for me much more. In the case of , it was ensured that the provider listens to what is important to the building family. Another candidate for what I consider a top selection criterion.
also builds, for example, with an installation level – basically you will find this with the higher-priced providers, since it is somewhat more elaborate in execution (but rather minimal), and is associated with noticeable net space losses relative to the gross area. In other words: you have to be able and willing to afford it.
Separating the installation into an extra level, from my perspective as a construction-method-neutral building consultant with four decades of market knowledge, is more a philosophical question than a quality criterion. But especially the higher-priced providers want to cater to customers whose perception regards this as a quality criterion. For stone houses, there are many customers who also consider masonry non-load-bearing interior walls as more valuable. And since premium brand customers are especially “right” and practically the top king, providers deal with that – there is no other core issue involved.
As wiltshire points out, smaller/local timber frame builders can also install this (albeit perhaps only on request).
Not only the timber builders, also the stone builders are as flexible as their ownership structure allows. Big names generally behave industrially, regardless of construction method.
To my knowledge, besides those mentioned also at least possible with:
- WOLF-Haus / - Schwörerhaus / - / - Weberhaus / - / -
There are probably dozens of other providers as well.
I consider BZ very inflexible in the aforementioned sense, Wolf is at least a smaller player by market share.
But as I said, I would not restrict it to timber builders at all, but proceed in two stages as is well known and set the course in the rest period of the dough and only decide in service phase 3 whether it should be restricted to general contractors (which, by the way, is not my preferred way). Maybe the OP first takes a look at the “A house-building roadmap, also for you: the HOAI phase model!”. I hope the basement question is already resolved, and the installation level is basically just a use case of the stone mantra.
