Purchase decision small semi-detached house 100 sqm from 1930

2023-12-06 10:37:06

I am very excited about the pictures! Respect for the personal effort :)

2023-12-06 10:44:52

That sounds great, I wish you a wonderful time in your own home! And you can be very proud of it, and you should be!

2023-12-06 10:53:51

So, now I can write extensively from the laptop. I have never presented our project separately here, but I’m happy to write you something about it here. Our house was also built for miners, 1921. Plot size is larger though, about 650m2, because feed for the pigs that lived in the basement stable was grown here in the past. Our house was equipped with bathrooms in the 60s (before that there was just a laundry room in the basement). In the early 90s, the roof, facade, windows and exterior doors were renewed. In 2017, we bought it and renewed the following: electricity, roof insulation from the inside to create living space under the roof including a new small bathroom there, roof windows, most other windows, bathrooms, water pipes, floor coverings, interior doors, stairs exposed, sanded and glazed, paneling removed and ceilings suspended with drywall at 2.60m, and over the last 5 years we renewed the internal plaster on the 1st floor, plastered the basement on the inside with renovation plaster and took care of many small things and dug a lot in the garden. Next year, if everything goes as planned, we will renew the internal plaster on the ground floor (it is now 101 years old!), insulate towards the basement (so far an uninsulated wooden beam ceiling over the vaulted cellar, very cold feet in cold winters), renew the last 3 old windows as well as the entrance door and depending on costs also install underfloor heating, heat pump and photovoltaics. Our gas heating system is from 2010 and has worked perfectly so far, but I guess I don’t need to mention why we want to switch now before it breaks down by itself.
How much did we spend? We took out a 39,000€ loan for the renovation, which we used up. Through a mix of craftsmen and own work, we estimate renovation costs at 50,000€ since then, possibly more, I unfortunately didn’t list it separately and we just kept going whenever money was available. Mind you, a lot of own work, no frills (simple electricity, cheap doors, laminate) and prices from 2017.

I’m quoting myself here, as we have since done a lot more and invested about 50,000EUR for it. Front door, last windows, insulation towards the basement, screed on the ground floor, underfloor heating on the ground floor, tiles on the ground floor, new plaster on the ground floor, enlarged hallway, new kitchen, solar thermal for heating and hot water on the facade, new basement entrance door, worked on the stairs again.

Maybe of interest to you, .

2023-12-06 20:16:29

What is considered normal ventilation? Theoretically, you have to ventilate three to four times a day for 30 minutes. Probably no one manages that..

Unless you have a ventilation system. At our place, no window has been opened for 2 weeks and the humidity everywhere is around 45-50% rh.

2023-12-06 22:37:28

The quoted post is a year old...
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I am definitely glad that you finished the renovation and even well under budget.

2023-12-07 08:17:04

The quoted post is a year old... -------------------- I'm definitely glad that you finished the renovation and even well under budget.

Under budget – yes. But the truth is also that the photovoltaics were dropped and we didn’t do facade insulation, just core insulation of the masonry (about €15,000 cheaper, I would estimate). However, we should still just about achieve an efficiency class C, I estimate.

Also, from the €200,000 loan volume, it turned into €247,000 (at 3.5% interest, current payment €1,070 with €725 interest portion, will increase when the younger one goes to kindergarten and mom works part-time again) – we had kept back some equity and paid for kitchen, furniture, etc. from that. Additionally, we bought the neighboring 300 sqm plot. It is currently still used as a garden by my girlfriend’s aunt and cost another €20,000. Let’s see what we do with it long-term, but at least it’s ensured that no one will block our view (even though the plot is difficult to build on). After deducting the remaining work (terrace, painting, ...) we still have €20,000 left as a reserve from the financing.

Moreover, the bank’s calculation of living space even resulted in 110 sqm living area, so on paper we’ve “gained” 10 sqm :D

The “problem” I now have is that I’ve learned so much about how to do it, how not to do it, what I would definitely do differently, organization, processes, etc., that I really want to go through such a project again. Maybe in 5-6 years, if we want to expand again with more kids. :)

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Purchase decision small semi-detached house 100 sqm from 1930

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