Peanuts74
2017-02-13 14:57:03
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Finished or prefabricated does not necessarily have to mean wooden panels, and solid does not necessarily mean bricks. Aerated concrete is just as common today.
You will find plenty of pros and cons when it comes to the question of solid or prefabricated houses, and the longer you ask, the more the ratio of comments tends towards 50:50.
Basically, I tend to see the prefabricated house providers nowadays as ordinary builders to whom you can submit the same preliminary designs for a request for offer as to the solid construction builders.
Unfortunately, currently almost all prefabricated house providers offer only semi-detached houses under the keyword "two-family house" (which can certainly also be built on an undivided plot, but usually that caters to a different tenant clientele than one-story apartments).
Due to the trend towards individual planning, an old advantage of prefabricated houses (proven, because it has been built exactly the same way 100 times) has been lost.
Prefabricated house providers mostly build in a more fashionable, current style, while local solid construction builders tend to build everything looking the same, even over decades.
I wouldn’t see it that way at all. With many general contractors (all those from whom we requested offers), we were able to submit the plan we designed, which was then implemented 1:1 as an offer, slightly adjusted to fit the stone grid. Even during the construction phase, meaning while the shell was being built, we could still change windows.
That’s almost impossible with a prefabricated house.
Why should solid houses have been built the same way for decades anyway???
Only with the very large companies like Heinz von Heiden or Town & Country do you naturally have poor chances if you want to make changes. But it should be similar with Massa Haus, Allkauf Haus, etc.