Prefabricated house, poor sound insulation

Hello

I have never understood why anyone buys a prefab house. A timber frame, some insulation inside, drywall on the inside, plaster on the outside. If you hit it with a wheelbarrow, you’re standing in the living room.
If the houses were cheaper, I would understand it. But a masonry house doesn’t cost much more. And the interior finish is almost identical.
My house consists of 24 sand-lime bricks, mineral wool, and clinker bricks. In total over 50cm of exterior wall. No sound gets through that. And when I see the prices being asked here, I couldn’t afford that either.
My house will still be standing in 100 years. At least the structure is still okay. A prefab house has fewer chances of survival there.

Steven

Hello I have never understood why someone buys a prefabricated house. A timber frame, some insulation inside, drywall inside, plaster outside. If you hit it with the wheelbarrow, you are standing in the living room. If the houses were cheaper, I would understand it. But a masonry house does not cost much more. And the interior finishing is almost identical. My house consists of 24 sand-lime bricks, mineral wool, and clinker. In total over 50cm exterior wall. No sound gets through that. And when I see the prices called here, I could not figure it out either. My house will still stand in 100 years. At least the structure is still okay. A prefabricated house has less chance of survival there. Steven

Yes, you are absolutely right. That’s why there are no old half-timbered houses in Germany either. An ETICS is much less sensitive than any prefabricated house. And if the wolf comes, it will blow down the wooden house. Above all, I want to particularly agree with you here: Absolutely every prefabricated house is the same! In reality, there is no difference between solid wood or different insulation materials. *Irony off

Hello I have never understood why anyone buys a prefabricated house. A timber frame, some insulation inside, drywall on the inside, plaster on the outside. If you hit it with a wheelbarrow, you’re standing in the living room. If the houses were cheaper, I could still understand it. But a brick house doesn’t cost much more. And the interior finishing is almost identical. My house consists of 24 sand-lime bricks, mineral wool, and clinker. Overall over 50cm external wall. No sound gets through that. And when I see the prices being asked here, I wouldn’t pay that either. My house will still stand in 100 years. At least the structure is still okay. A prefab house has less chance of survival. Steven

That is nonsense and generalization. Apart from KSS with ETICS, other houses nowadays also have poor sound insulation. Ytong and Poroton are also bad. But windows are usually always the weak point with RwD 30 to 33 dB. You can’t do anything about that even with your KSS wall, which probably has 50 dB to 53.

My house will still stand in 100 years.

It doesn't have to be an advantage.

I don't know which areas you live in, but regardless of the architectural style of the houses, I haven't noticed poor soundproofing anywhere in a negative way when I visited somewhere. It should be quite obvious that wood or aerated concrete at the airport or a main road is not the first choice.

But a brick house doesn't cost much more.

the same applies to brick houses as well. We have the same symptoms as in a house built with Poroton.

I hear in our house when - cars drive by - car doors slam - people when they talk loudly

However, unlike the OP, we don’t have our ear pressed against the wall... we hear it even without doing that. But: if we did that, we would have already gotten too caught up in foreign noises and would probably hear every little beep and get annoyed.