House designs: I don't understand you future builders!

Take a look at the already ongoing discussions and neighboring threads: I often notice that with the same conditions, similar discussion requests run in parallel. Thus, you will often find answers to your questions through these discussions or find ideas on how other users try to solve this or that problem in their house construction.

I came across the "problem" while responding to a private message request for a design sketch of a house on a slope. During this time (let's say two to three days), two other users posted their (or their architect's) designs, which are actively being discussed – currently.

After I pointed this out to "my" user, they asked for the link. For me, a redundant question in a forum, because I myself (also through other forums) know that during a forum visit (as a questioner) you should always have all current questions and threads in focus or at least read the headings if you are currently dealing intensively with the main topic, i.e. the forum's main focus itself.

Of course, there are individual designs that cannot be compared with others; nevertheless, for the questioner, the question of why the hallway is not furnishable or why the dressing room should be swapped with the bedroom may no longer arise. In my example "house on a slope" it was the use of the basement (possibly the suggestion of living spaces with terrace access or changing the use of the floors between ground floor and basement).

Be that as it may: check parallel threads, even if they are weeks old – they certainly contain many solved problems that you currently have yourself.

Other people’s problems also help you! Almost all users here are in the same situation as you: by reading at least the current threads posted by like-minded people, you do not become less knowledgeable. Even if it may not concern you at the moment, surely this exact problem will affect you in the future – having existing knowledge then is not wrong.

Best regards Yvonne

... but that is much more work than just asking the question and waiting for everyone else to take care of it?!
;)

It is simply laziness. It cannot be due to using the search function. Presumably, there is so much to do that it is considered tedious to first look around in the forum. This also includes having to gather one's own questions from various posts. It is easier if you prefer to write your own case completely new, which of course differs largely from the other issues, then you only have to read those answers. It doesn’t get any more comfortable than that. ;)

I rather believe that it is the lack of experience with internet forums and the matter of building a house itself. At first, everything is unfamiliar and you are clumsy. It is like that in all forums, whether it is about cars, hi-fi, or houses.

Of course, you can read a lot about it, but an expert looks over it once and immediately recognizes the most obvious mistakes. However, if you want it to be perfect, you have to read up on it and hope that you don't get lost in the details.

Certainly, you cannot find everything through the search mask. I also admit that in forums where I visit myself, I rarely use this option. Nevertheless, I then hang around in the subforum that interests me and click around here and there... I often find that the headlines are anything but sensibly chosen. "I need help," Here: "House construction" or "Experiences..." then do not show me what kind of question it is, but a click on this question clarifies whether the discussion can be useful to me. When I ask my question as a user, I pass the waiting time by satisfying my curiosity about whether others also have my problem or what problem others have. Fortunately, it is only a few who make their topic a question every few weeks, even though it is already being discussed in parallel. And unfortunately, I will not reach with this thread those who make the mistake and do not even browse around :( In this sense, Yvonne wishes you a nice start to the week :) P.s. I also have no problem answering parallel discussions, but some users make life difficult for themselves even though the solution is often already within reach here to read ;)