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So we are working hard and things are slowly progressing. At the front, only the house number sign is missing (excluding the outdoor facilities).

Upstairs, the rooms now have flooring. It's a pity that we didn't choose this bio flooring for the whole house. We really like it better.

I'm a bit annoyed by the thinking behind the exterior plaster. I need to take a closer look.

I really like the color of the walls in the living area! The dents in the exterior plaster are really annoying, especially with such lamps you unfortunately notice every unevenness

We were really lucky with our screed. Poured at the beginning of July when it wasn't quite so hot yet, but already nicely warm. And now it continues to cure for another 2 weeks in these high outdoor temperatures. Overall, the mostly rain-free and warm period since May was optimal for construction. Now it would already be too hot to work well outside. But in May it was still very pleasant. Lucky us

We are getting our screed on Thursday.... I hope it’s not too hot, you also want the screed to take the time it needs. I’m looking forward to when the inside of the house finally looks a bit more like a real house!

The dents in the exterior plaster are really annoying, especially with lamps like these you can unfortunately see every unevenness

Even though you can probably get better quality, the tolerances in this area are probably very high. Just leave the lighting of the facade alone, it even saves money. Nothing will come of it anyway.

Uh, with the wooden frame construction you have the same problem. (Risk of mold) Or don't you have screed?

No! All wood, even the basement (if anyone's interested, you can search on YouTube under "Staudenschreiner" to see the construction of a wooden basement). So with us nothing has to dry.

And - YAAAAY - soon I will also be able to participate properly here. Demolition of the old garage in the next few weeks, groundworks starting early September and we were now told the moving-in date would be Jan-Feb. Although not everything will be finished yet (e.g. outdoor facilities and basement interior), we could move in. Yippee! After more than two long years it is finally becoming concrete. We conservatively expect a moving-in date in March, but even that is significantly earlier than we had previously assumed (we were thinking of April/May, possibly June). *fidget*

oh wow, that’s crazy, I saw this on YouTube..everything is actually made of wood. How is it with the soundproofing? The values? And how is the house insulated? And why did it take 2 years?

Overall, a wooden house, I believe, is somewhat less soundproofed. However, that was not decisive for us, and we will counteract it somewhat with clay plaster. From the beginning, it was clear to us that it would be a wooden house because we found the living atmosphere in wooden houses more pleasant. A basement was actually planned for a long time as a "normal" basement made of concrete with corresponding insulation.

The insulation values in terms of thermal insulation are excellent. Especially as it is done by Staudenschreiner (he is an environmental freak who also always tries to get the maximum environmental friendliness and sustainability out of the heating technology); our exterior walls are 40 cm thick.

2 years: that has nothing to do with the wooden house, but with a cranky municipal council *eye roll* that repeatedly rejected the construction project, even when the superior building authority had long given the green light. Ultimately, they could not prevent it but significantly delayed it. We had the approval from the LRA after some fights and compromises in late summer last year; all objection periods had then expired in March this year, and we had to wait for that, just so the municipality wouldn't try to initiate proceedings before the administrative court. We had enough experience with them during that time; we didn't want to take the risk that they would still file an objection in the last days.