Swedish Element House / AB-Elementhus Renovation vs Demolition

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I would advise you to do that only if your desired communication partner is online at the same time (within up to ten minutes you can remove it again - otherwise your address will be quite publicly visible here).

Hello everyone, I am also the owner of a SEH - Swedish Element House built in 1974. We bought the house in 2017 and have extensively modernized it so far. Unfortunately, we have no data/documents about the house from the previous owners. Does anyone have some information here? Regards Tim

What do you want to know? We completely renovated such a house and demolished everything except the foundation walls. Fortunately, there were plenty of documents about it.

Hello everyone,
I am currently facing the decision to buy a prefabricated house from the company "Schwedische Elementhäuser GmbH" built in 1975.
I have already generally informed myself about prefabricated houses from this year of construction and have repeatedly read that there are problems especially concerning pollutants (asbestos, DTT, PCP, etc.) as well as unpleasant odors (e.g. from chloranisoles).
Are there this type of problems also with this company or has anyone of you had experiences with it?
I would appreciate a brief feedback.

Regards Dominik

that there are problems especially regarding pollutants (asbestos, DDT, PCP, etc.) as well as unpleasant odors (e.g. due to chloranisoles). Are there this kind of problems with this company as well or has anyone of you had experiences with it?

I at least assume that the statement

It is also a SEH (Schwedische Elementhäuser GmbH in FFM has distributed and built AB Elementhus houses in Germany)

is meant to say that it is an importer of the complete shell, so the walls were manufactured in Sweden. You would presumably have to look for information in Swedish about how neurotoxins in wood preservatives have possibly been viewed differently in Sweden – i.e. banned earlier or later – than in Germany. In general, when replacing, for example, chipboards of previous formulations with current ones, I would consider that the residual toxicity of the old materials may by now be below the limits of the new ones.

No idea if I hadn’t already written it: I had a material analysis done: without any abnormalities. It’s possible for quite little money at some labs, in case it gives you a better conscience. Actually, chipboards are hardly used at all, since the Swedes back then primarily relied on spruce cross-laminated timber. The filling is also spruce planed chips. The SEH have nothing to do with the German prefabricated houses from that time. Both here in the thread and via Google you can find some posts about the construction, the approval plans for the elements are also available online for a few euros.