Is purchasing a house and complete renovation affordable?

A heating engineer friend recently told me that for some time hardly any new orders have been coming in. Maybe the price gouging will get better now.

And my heating engineer has no time to do the annual maintenance at my place because he is so busy. Probably because of all the Cleverli who still want to quickly have a gas heating system installed...

I'll give a small update.

We have now been to the notary and bought my grandmother's house for 325,000 euros.

Ultimately, the financing consists of 3 components:
1st part: 222,500 euros loan from ING at 3.29% interest with a term of 20 years
2nd part: 100,000 euros loan from KfW at 1.97% interest (after the measures end, we can receive up to 25% repayment subsidy)
3rd part: 100,000 euros loan from KfW at 1.97% interest (after the measures end, we can receive up to 25% repayment subsidy)

Equity used - 190,000 euros.
We still have a 40,000 euro buffer.

I will regularly give updates on the core renovation here in this thread.

At the moment we are gutting. This will take a little longer.
The wallpaper was relatively easy to remove. It amounted to 10 bags of 120 liters each.
The suspended wooden ceilings are also down and have already been disposed of.

PVC has been laid throughout the house. It is really tedious to remove.

In the picture here, the PVC is already removed. The substructure at the ceiling is also gone by now.
Under the PVC is a leveling compound that is not even half a centimeter thick.
Under the leveling compound is wood (see next picture)


Here I opened up the wooden floor (which probably lies throughout the whole house) and wanted to look at the screed.
First shock – under the wooden floor there is a layer of sand? that is 7 centimeters thick.



In the last picture you can see the gray leveling compound, then the wooden floor, and beneath a layer of sand.

Can someone tell me if this was common for the construction year (1958) or what the purpose of this sand was?

Next, the entire floor will be torn out and then we will deal with this sand.

I vaguely remember that there was a thread in [grünen mal] where someone also had sand in the ceiling. The sand serves sound insulation, if I remember correctly. So you probably don't have screed then.

I vaguely remember that there was a thread in the green section where someone also had sand in the ceiling. The sand serves as sound insulation, if I remember correctly. So you probably don't have screed

Thank you very much for the answer.

No, there is no screed.

On the one hand, it is really a lot of work to get the sand out of the house and especially to dispose of it. On the other hand, it is now easier for us with the underfloor heating.

In our house from the 1950s, we also had sand in the ground and wood parquet / floating screed on top. It was probably more common in Bavaria/Franconia.