Is building a basement still justified today?

Hello,

are you sure that you told your architect that you and your girlfriend want a utility basement?

... als Abstellmöglichkeit für kaum genutztes Zeugs, zur Vorratslagerung und zum Unterbringen der ganzen Haustechnik (Heizung, Strom, Netzwerk, etc.) nutzen.

So, as a future junk room with the technical alibi :D



Rhenish greetings

Well planned storage space, a utility room on the upper floor where the laundry accumulates, and a technical room on the ground floor that provides space for supplies, cleaning agents, etc., is completely sufficient.

What, in my opinion, always gets overlooked is drying the laundry. And as country folks, they possibly have higher requirements for stocking and storage (which of course can be done differently, I know, it also depends on the plot size). By the way, we don’t have a basement, for cost reasons .

In my opinion, what always gets overlooked is drying the laundry. And as country bumpkins, they possibly have higher demands for stockpiling and storage (which of course can be done differently, I know, it also depends on the size of the property). By the way, we don’t have a basement, for cost reasons .

I completely agree with you about drying the laundry. But instead of a drying room, where the laundry used to be stretched across an entire room, people are moving toward dryers. If you were to build a spacious room in a basement, the exhaust of the moist air would have to be controlled, not to mention the costs. Instead, you could resort to a covered area outdoors – most have a rotary clothesline and a drying rack for smaller laundry. We have a wall thing like that in the small utility room upstairs, where sportswear and wool can dry; the rest goes into the dryer. I would be interested to know how a family of four manages this! I will probably start a thread about it Here it is:

Also, I wonder whether the term country bumpkins refers to growing vegetables and fruit on one’s own property. After working eight hours, most people are tired of cultivating their own patch in their free time. Some make it manageable, including myself: zucchini, arugula, beetroot... next year I can plant in the greenhouse Of course, jars are preserved. A cabinet is enough for these jars. But that’s not the kind of stockpiling people practiced after the war, when otherwise there was nothing to eat: back then, people relied on stockpiling and picked apples from the roadside to make compote. The fruits from the home garden are nowadays processed fresh and eaten right away.

I definitely wanted a basement. I need space for sports equipment that is not currently in use and want to set up a workshop. That was one of the reasons we decided on a new build. Washing machine, dryer, and the remaining technology will also find space in the basement. At least with the land prices in Berlin, it was easier to accommodate that in the basement than to enlarge the floor area by the required 60 sqm.

I believe it is a luxury and only as a basement apartment.

Alternatively for economic reasons - but only with extremely high land prices.

We also have a lot of stuff that needs to be stored: cross-country, alpine, and ski touring equipment, diving gear for two people, climbing gear, mountaineering stuff (light mountain boots, crampon-proof boots, crampons, ice axe, and whatever else comes together), and on top of that we also want a workshop. We would definitely prefer to have that on the ground floor, preferably as an extension or something like that, but since we are very limited in the building envelope and have to get by with a relatively small footprint and cannot build upwards, we will have a basement.

Personally, I would rather do laundry on the upper floor and not carry the dirty laundry down to the basement, then hang it out to dry in the sun (ground floor), then bring it down again to iron and back up again to the upper floor when it’s clean. No, thanks... I prefer a different exercise routine.