Hello,
even though I am not a dentist - some teeth need to be pulled sometimes:
So we went to Bad Vilbel to a prefab house park to get an impression.
Not entirely wrong. However, some providers are located in houses that a competitor had set up there as a show house back then, otherwise some of the show houses no longer correspond to the current state of the providers located there. They serve primarily as contact points.
So we were already impressed by the houses but the prices...
Prefab houses currently are often more expensive than 'conventionally built' houses.
We want a house with about 150sqm living space. In this size range WITHOUT basement one should expect about €200,000. Demolition and basement would be about €270,000 to €300,000!!!
Even with conventional construction you will not be cheaper - the €200k is already a very 'cheap' estimate.
I find this extremely overpriced! There were terraced houses WITH land here in town for €150,000. Of course, not really a comparison but then I would almost get two houses.
No. Just renovating and bringing it up to a comparable technical standard will cost you such a chunk of money that the toothaches come for free. And one should not compare apples with pears.
Is it even worth building a prefab house? Architects certainly also have a portfolio where you can fall back on a standard house.
Standards are currently out of fashion. Standard houses of course also exist in conventional construction, sometimes cheap, sometimes expensive. Whether that is even an option has to be seen individually.
My parents also built a house. 160sqm living space planned by an architect and it cost less than the prefab house!? And it is only about 300m from here.
Yes, where is the contradiction? Prefab houses are generally not cheaper than comparable conventionally built houses. And depending on what you want, they can also be significantly more expensive. Many providers no longer even offer the 'off-the-shelf catalog house', here prefab houses are then planned by architects specifically for the building project. They are just preassembled in the factory and erected on site.
For example, with us, even the intermediate ceiling elements were only assembled on the construction site. By the way, the interior finishing was conventionally done on site.
Of course, the salespeople wanted to make their product appealing to us... only sometimes I thought that what they said could hardly be true.
Some there told us pretty seriously total nonsense. A quick internet search then exposed much of it.
-Cladding would be pointless
Depends on where you build. It always depends on what you want to achieve.
- Solar system would be ridiculous
If costs and benefits are correctly evaluated - many solar thermal systems do not make financial sense.
And photovoltaic is currently also not so easy to calculate to black figures for new buildings,
but it always depends on the individual case.
-Stove would be luxury
If the stove does not take over the base heating in the house, then that is true. Typical heating power of a wood stove: 6-9kW - heating load for the corresponding newly built house is significantly smaller - i.e. when firing up you immediately open the window so it doesn’t get too hot in the living room. Costs for fireplace, stove, underpressure monitor etc. easily head towards €10-15k - quite expensive for pure ambient fire.
Regards
I.