I can't really say anything about the actual question, but two points stood out to me.
Now let's say, if a company wants to sell us a house and in 2021 offers carpet and laminate as standard, then that's not acceptable and we won't buy. That already shows they are 20 years behind and who knows what else somewhere else that I can't even assess.
@@RotorMotor, this is very exaggerated and unnecessary.
What I want to say is that if such a company has something as simple from the 90s as standard in 2021, then surely countless other things are not up to their current standard.
You should see it differently: building a house means having a lot of money. Many place value on technology but simply don’t have the money for parquet or tiles anymore. So materials are offered that are also available for 15 or 25€/sqm.
But that doesn’t mean carpet is 90s standard. There are many high-quality carpet products that cost more than parquet and are of natural origin, namely animal hair, so something noble and renewable.
What’s important, among other things, is that it says KfW40: many need this stamp to get subsidies.
House building companies have to virtually match the buyer profiles; otherwise, they don’t sell houses. Thus, even houses in affordable construction have their raison d'être.
I have to say that with other providers, the standard was directly higher quality, like marble windowsills and such things.
But those can also simply be bait. Then a few high-sounding items are included in the construction specification, and suddenly they seem high-quality.
We ourselves also have marble windowsills; correct me if I’m wrong (it’s been a while), but the additional cost for all was 80€.
it turns out that the rather cheap providers are disappearing
But there are also regions or builders who don’t want to participate in all the hype with roller shutters, Bauhaus style, etc. (that is still the majority) and the offers refer to that. You can always upgrade.
It’s like buying a car.
So I would also be careful not to fall into this cliché thinking that average houses are cheap or have no reason to exist just because there are expensive homebuilders. Because they or your taste are not the standard.
Basically, you should rather go for good and contemporary technology if you can afford it, but even radiators are rather “80s” ;) and underfloor heating is more standard.
And: in the end, it has to fit – that might possibly need to be adjusted downward for you if your soil report turns out bad. You then find yourself sooner in the cheap sector than you’d like.
But all this is easy to say (after X years distance and post-empirical knowledge), because I also would never have taken a homebuilder who didn’t install underfloor heating for me ;)
So everyone is somehow sitting in the glass house cited by Acof :) (including me)
Nevertheless, when you look at everything ecologically closely, you shouldn’t excuse your mistakes just because others do the same.
Each of us somehow has to go to work and somehow leaves their own bad imprint on this world. We also have a fireplace that is supposed to heat in September, October, March, and April. And yes, the fire looks quite nice o_O. I don’t have an electric car either and we bought a caravan that is towed with horsepower. So hopefully people here won’t look at me “angry.”
But it doesn’t hurt anyone, before making statements, to look at their own footprint in this world to see if it has to be that way and where to start doing better: after all, it is our children who have to suffer the consequences of our sins. These finger-pointing comments like “look at yourself” don’t help us at all because then you shift responsibility away from yourself.
As already said. Glasshouse and stones...
