Massive construction or prefabricated house

Do the walls breathe better?

I didn't ask for more details.

The experience in SH is that the prefab house becomes more expensive than the commonly used aerated concrete solid house here, mostly with clinker brick, unless you choose the popular Swedish-Danish wooden house variant common to us. The big advantage of prefab construction is certainly that the house is almost dry from day one. With a solid house, I like the inertia, staying cool for a long time in summer and retaining heat well in winter. Then I like that you are very free in planning. And if you want, you can build with a regional, smaller company, where customer service still takes place between the boss and the customer, and you have their mobile number. For me, a house made of stone feels right. But that is not rationally justifiable. If I were an Inuit, my feeling would be that a house belongs made of ice. The price advantage was not felt to be massive. For example, the Scanhaus Marlow Marlow Bungalow 105 with a larger roof pitch and therefore expandable upper floor ended at the base price of 170. That didn’t even include tiles, and the wall construction was a Sto ETICS. Any redesign of the not quite satisfactory basic floor plan costs extra. Staircase only in pine, underfloor heating surcharge, etc. The 110 sqm solid house of my construction company, planned individually with me, with my wife, with a good friend, monolithic wall construction without styrofoam, underfloor heating included, vent in the bathroom as well, generously tiled with 50 sqm tiled out of 110 sqm, cost only 163. Plus a large selection of door fillings, better heating, Junkers instead of Buderus, house connections, satellite system, Velux upstairs, beech staircase included in the price. All this made the choice easy. Scanhaus Marlow Marlow was still cheap among prefab builders, southern German ones like Bien Zenker are very expensive. Only Scandinavian providers like Fjordborg or EBK or Danwood could keep up. But I didn’t want a wooden house, because of painting. Karsten

Luxhaus told us that the indoor climate is better in a timber frame house.

Our product is better - the basic statement of every sales talk.

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Our product is better - the basic claim of every sales talk.

I also didn’t include anything about why one should now go to a prefabricated house provider.... especially since the price is apparently similar.

Well, if you now decide on a "projekted" prefabricated house and make no changes, it seems quite affordable. Unfortunately, no one offers underfloor heating, I don’t understand how anyone still wants to live with radiators.

why one should now go to a prefabricated house provider.... especially since the price is apparently similar.

Prices are above all one thing, namely: hard to compare. The description of the construction services is by far the bigger price lever than the construction method or the wall structure. Top quality can be achieved in different ways, flawless "Economy" as well – but also poor performance up to the limit of fraud. In the past, prefabricated houses were cardboard boxes / barracks. Then came a time when the prefab builders caught up enormously. Thirty years ago, one could speak of parity, as there was (also architecturally) quality at the same level, with a better k-value at half the exterior wall thickness. This advantage is gone again at today's energy saving ordinance level.

Recently, some bargain hunters have been populating the market, whose concept, simplified, is a combination of fashionable details with rediscovered cardboard box construction quality. Whoever wants to create dumping prices has to botch in solid construction and has more "play" on the prefab level in how cheaply they tack things together. Almost like the house as a "Billy shelf, faked in China".

But the biggest trick factor lies in the service description. Value unfortunately does not arise from brochure pictures.