Prefab house vs. solid house - Please urgently need advice!!

Hello,

we urgently need advice:

We find the prefabricated house builder HUF very nice. The houses and floor plans are exactly in our style (half-timbered house 2000). Unfortunately, the price is also high.

We have already purchased a plot of land and now “only” need the right house.

Question:

HUF is something like the Mercedes among the prefabricated house builders. If you have a house built by them in solid construction with some modifications but similar in style, could that possibly become cheaper?
Or no chance? Are prefabricated house builders always cheaper than solid construction?

We would be very grateful for answers!!!

PS: The architect costs (statics, planning, building application, etc.) are excluded because we have already negotiated these costs with the land purchase, since the land belonged to a construction company.

Hello,
I can only say keep your hands off prefabricated houses. They do have the advantage that the costs seem to be transparent, but even here the contract is made first and then the selections are made (significant amounts for changes can still add up). Prefabricated houses have really developed great in recent years especially in terms of quality, but they simply cannot yet match the value retention of a solid house. Although to be fair, many solid construction methods have had their problems since the energy saving ordinance. For example, the popular brick construction method has problems still meeting the required values and at the same time its struggle with tight building envelopes (topic mold: clay naturally absorbs moisture rather than releasing it and once a brick is full you can grow mushrooms). Aerated concrete falls through solely because of poor sound insulation and lack of thermal storage capacity (for both you need weight, no matter what calculations say). There are now systems that combine the various positive properties like vapor permeability, sound insulation, thermal storage capacity, and thermal insulation.
I built in 1998 with a wood-chip formwork block and can only say top living quality, nice and cool in summer and above all not so muggy inside and warm in winter. My house was a kit house, they recently also started offering a solid prefabricated house built with the same system but prefabricated in the factory and built within 5 days including interior and exterior plaster, windows, electrical. I linked the company on my homepage because they are really good and especially very reliable in handling, I can only recommend them. Getting informed costs nothing.
Regards Tomtom