@@Headhunter-5000 To provide some context, Google started filming Germany for Streetciew in 2008. In mid 2010 it made the announcement that it planned to cover the 20 largest cities in Germany. The first images were available to the public by the end of the year. However, Google received so many request from individuals, almost 250’000, to blur their properties as well as general public backlash that it said in April 2011 that it would stop expanding and updating Google Streetview in Germany. After Apple offered their version in 2022, Google started up again and since 2023, Google Streetview has new updated images and a much more expanded area for Germany.
It also depends on the region. In water protection areas, you cannot build a basement underground, so the ground floor often has to be built as a raised ground floor. Added to this are the high costs of an accurate drainage system.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezerGenerally, the more expensive the land is, the more floors you’ll want to build. But zoning rules often restrict the height to a maximum of three floors. Meaning once you’ve hit the height limit, you start building underground.
Exactly, in general this German house looks like a very low budget variant. Today people usually use 50 cm thick bricks, not those small 25 or 30 cm ones. The bitumen barrier usually comes directly on the concrete slab, before the first layer of bricks is layed. But again, without a proper cellar they have to improvise.
Not really a classic German house. Especially because there is no cellar/basement. Houses without these are built like that because of money. Digging and building a cellar ist very expensive, but a part of a typical German house
nicht wenn du im moor gebiet lebst mein lieber, da kannst du es so oder so vergessen, nicht mal ne 2 millionen villa hat nen keller hier also wenn schon dann sag es auch mit allen gründen
@@avrracer4175 Sehe ich als Architekt auch so. Sofern es keinen Grund gibt aus technischen Gründen keinen zu bauen (hoher Gr.wasserstand etc.) dann gehört ein Keller dazu. Allein schon, um die Haustechnik anständig unterzubringen. Aber billig ist ein Keller nicht wirklich. 80-100.000 Euro Aufpreis kann das bei einem normalen Haus schnell mal ausmachen.
German houses are a lot more expensive than American houses, but also a lot sturdier. Over the time, they are cheaper, as there will be less to repair.
They are pribobly cheaper, but also smaler. Basically half the size, but also a lot cheaper, probobly not quite half the price. Also worth saying that a typical german plot is 600-800m2 while in the us its almost double. Part of that is eaten by us fire rules in most state forces residential buildings to be moved back from the street quite a lot.
Practically, all houses in Germany are built this way, reinforced concrete floor and bricks. Insulating bricks are a newer development. The elements for the ceiling are called "Fettdecke". When our house was built in 1969, they were unknown. To pour the ceiling, all rooms were full of adjustable steel columns with wooden sheets on top. Then the electrician builds a network of tubes and a ceiling outlet for all rooms because the electricity distribution is in the ceiling enclosed in the concrete. From the ceiling, tubes are run down to where switches and wall outlets are to be. They have a special tool to cut grooves in the wall, looking like an angle grinder with two disks. After this is all installed, the ceiling is poured. Routing additional power lines or pipes requires significant effort. The pieces over the window openings are especially strong concrete beams. If you try to drill a hole into them, you notice the big difference to a regular wall. I wish our house were built with these insulating bricks. In 1969 insulation was irrelevant, heating was very cheap. Until 1974.
i know some, since building a house is becoming almost impossible for the money, people save money without getting a basement. i dont like it but whatever
Our houses are mostly built of stone. My house (Approx. 300m² of living space without storage rooms, technical rooms and stairwell with hallway) with fired Poroton brick with a wall thickness of 40cm because of the insulation. The windows are triple glazed. On the roof are heavy concrete tiles (type: Frankfurter Pfannen). The masonry stands on a homogeneously cast reinforced concrete floor slab with a foundation substructure, depending on the subsoil (sand, gravel, rock). The ceiling panels consist of 20-25cm thick reinforced concrete. The roof beams are made of wood that could bear an extreme snow load. The side bars of my house are 40cm high and 35cm thick. They have a length of 16m each. The roof beams are 20cm high and 14cm thick! The completely finished basement has the same floor plan as the ground floor and could be lived in! I live in the Swabian Alb. The building regulations require a stable (expensive) construction. I have a double garage with an extension for garden tools. The garage is not connected to the house and can be reached through a door through the courtyard. The length of the garage is 10m, the width is 7m. Both floors have a bathroom and one each guest toilet. The guest toilets are each also equipped with a urinal (for the boys). The heating is a combined oil-solar central heating. In addition, each floor has a tiled stove(heated with wood). The room height, including that of the basement, is 2.8 m. The basement could be inhabited, it is completely covered with tiles! In addition, it has a toilet and a shower (after gardening). Owning your own house is very expensive in Germany, which is why most Germans rent it. I was lucky that my father was a master mason and I was able to learn a lot from him. In addition, my brothers and brother-in-law have been very supportive. I think it would have been more difficult! Not to forget, we have a Liebherr fridge-freezer combination on every floor. We also have a huge freezer in the basement. For the venison from my son(hunter).😉
The U and Canadian houses are huts, glued together with salvia. Lousy insulation forces You to AC in summer and heating in winter, and never trouble with termites Whatever You save on the house You pay later via the electricity bill Check Part 2 to see the rest
HAHAHA Ah yes that is why the US has 1-2k heat related deaths each year, even with harsher climates. Meanwhile Germany had 9100 in 2022... Even though the US also has over 4x the population.
Ein massives Haus hat eine geplante Gewährleistung von 300 Jahren,ein Fertighaus 80 Jahre. Der Überstand ist die(Regen) Traufante .Man braucht ca.1000 Steine für ein kleines Haus.
The reddish bricks are adobe. They have a high (heat) insulation value but are more expensive than default concrete bricks. Other popular bricks are heavy, white limestones (high noise insulation) which are often used for structural walls between two apartments and between apartments and staircases in apartment buildings. Some people also use them for walls without casing or stukko e.g. garages and garden walls. Then there is Ytong (a brand name) or autoclaved aerated concrete. They are ultra-light weight (because they are 50% air) and can be sawed to fit.
A typical german house. 1st minute: no basement. I'd say, a basement IS typical. Funny side fact: in my younger years, i was a plasterer (you know, those guys who do plastering and "stucco"). Stucco (Stuck) is actually a special part of plastering in germany, those fancy ornaments and colums and stuff. I was 17 and wanted to finish my apprenticeship in germany, so i could then go to the US as the MAN and plaster all the US guys on the wall (wordplay?). Turned out, they send me on a job by myself, the first day. They told me, they prepared everything and i would find a toolbag there, with everything i need. When i opened that bag, half the tools i had never seen before in my life. It was literally to 70% a different job. PS: might have slipped your attention, but this seems to be a multi part series (roof f.e.), since this said "part 2" in the beginning
This ist not a german house, it's just a "cheap" bungalow ... no cellar and stuff! We have some of this buildings in our area, but I don't wanted to live there! *sorry
It's not a typical German house, because it has no basement and there are other parts in the build in later videos that are not standard. It's maybe a standard for the specific company that built the house. Having no basement reduces the resale value and garages or sheds are not really an alternative. German garages are only barely bigger than a car with average 5x2.5m and when there is a car inside there is no place for a hobby room like in a basement. The most expensive part is the property in most areas and often you are limited in building height, so an additional floor above ground is not possible an dosme don't have the space for a garage. The average price for a floor slab is about 170€/m² and for a basement about 180-250€/m² (sometimes more) depending on the ground material and in my opinion if you save money by not building a basement you should wait until you have the money for a basement.
And, mind you, you're not legally allowed to store anything other than vehicles and vehicle-related things in garages (I'm aware than almost no-one follows that rule, but still - you can't see a garage as just an extra room to your house).
@@andrewrichards9042 Doesn't change that basements are preferred.... plots are most of the time smaller in Germany than the US and having a basement is storage space without the need for a bigger plot of land. The problem is plots of land are so much more expensive compared to years ago that buying a bigger plot is expensive. On average(!) 1m² cost 270€ (I know there are cheaper areas, but there are more expensive, too). If you want a plot that is just 200m² bigger you talk about 54000€ - the same an average basement will cost you and a bigger plot will cost you more properties taxes over time unlike a basement....
@@drsnova7313 Right, and unlike in the USA in most German garages is barely enough space for a car plus spare tires with 5mx2.5m or 3x6m if it is big single car garage. A neighbor drives a Ford F150 Raptor - He can't park the car in the garage, because he is not able to open the doors of the car to leave it and the second problem would be the height. The space under the door is 180cm and F150 is about 200cm high at the highest point.
Many houses are built brick by brick, but there are also houses based on timber frame construction. A house like this is currently being built in our town and in another street 2 detached houses and 1 semi-detached house have been built . As a rule, it can be said that after the shell has been completed, it takes around 3 months for the interior work. Depending on whether you buy directly from a property developer or have an architect plan and build your house, the construction time often depends on the availability of the individual trades and on imponderables, such as delays due to extremely bad weather.
A lite deck icf roof is 6 inches of structural concrete. Then a EPDM layer, then 2 inches of concrete and waterproofing. The EPDM lasts forever being buried, and the roof is insulated via lite deck. Tornado proof and super strong, and can handle any amount of snow load.
I follow a channel in which a woman who normally knits is "renovating" an old house near Vancouver on her own with her boyfriend. In reality, they are actually tearing it down. 😄 I've been working in the German construction industry for over thirty years as a design engineer in a structural engineering office and every time I watch their video, I wonder more how this old hut has been able to stand for so long. 😉😄🇩🇪🇪🇺
Much sturdier than stick construction, better insulation and no chance of mold problems caused by construction errors. The downside is price which is obviously higher.
At least in my area of Germany the outer walls are at least 3 layers, the immer load besting layer is usually constructional calcium silicate bricks (large scale, the whole layer is), mineral wool as thermo insulation, a thin layer of air to dry the insulation and bricks if they ever get wet )optional, and an outer shell of either clinker bricks (those are regulated at around 11,5cm × 24cm and 6,5 cm) or plaster/ stucco (the inside usually is stucco + paint or stucco+ wallpaper+ paint. The loadbearing elements can vary, but it's usually wood, brick, concrete or steel, ceilings are usually steel+concrete unless that would be too heavy, the building is old or you're at the uppermost floor. Hope that helps :D
I worked under a chef and it was so much fun to watch and also a lot frustrated how he complicated his building site! Also he hired the cheapest workers who were not able to do anything properly! In this video it shows how its done but some German contractors work like verbrechers means something like scammers! I also experienced alot of great contractors here 2! Many scammers mostly have a short period to do Business locally then they have to depend on clients minimum 16miles away from company location!
Common house building in western Europe, not only in Germany, of course several techniques and material exists but the results are almost the same, a strong concrete house made from blocks and bricks ;-)
One more reactor who doesn't notice that the endcard has a playlist of all episodes. So the number of those who did notice still remains at 0. ;) Although, parts 7 and 8 are not available in English, but I see others have already linked them. This house uses underfloor wiring, a fairly modern technique. I think it became popular after people noticed that underfloor heating pipes worked well and wondered if the same could be done for electrical wires. Traditionally, electrical wires are run in channels cut into the bricks about a foot below the ceiling, unlike, for example, the UK, which traditionally runs them below the floorboards.
That was not a typical German house. It did not even have a cellar and modern day houses are way flimsier and more cost effective. Houses here used to be way more solid with much thicker walls and the costlier houses are made of concrete. Good thing is that modern walls are less prone to mould and will still be sturdy enough and insulate just as well. Never seen a German house without a cellar though. The music is embarassing though. I would expect this music to accompany a mission to Mars perhaps. It is way too epic and upbeat for the building of a random house that doesn't even have a cellar.
@@mortanos8938 Not really, I like cellars, but for a lot of people, they are not cost-effective as they mostly use them to store useless stuff. In the old days, cellars were necessary for insulation and as a barrier to ground humidity. They lost this function with the advent of advanced materials. Hardly anybody needs a lot of storage space anymore for potatoes, apples, pears, eggs in big jars, rows of glasses of jam, preserved vegetables and such.
@@mick-berry5331 Your assessment is fair enough. However, the cellars of family houses in Germany are usually the same size as the surface area on the above floors, and will be used either for living quarters, or entertainment rooms, or other, not just for storage. For Germany a house without cellar will always be uncommon.
Wooden houses the way they are bulit on north america would be terribhle in germany. they have almost no insulation meaning your heating bill would be through the roof.. energy and electricity costs 3-4 times as much in germany as it does in Northa america
@@UntilWeGoAC in residential housing is very rare in Germany. However, stone walls have a lot of ‘thermal mass’, meaning it takes a good amount of energy to heat them up. This basically buffers temperature changes. During the day, the outside heat must first heat up the stone walls before it reaches the interior. This on its own means that the day-night temperature changes inside are much more muted than the outside temperatures. This also helps when there is only one or two really hot days. Of course, for longer hot streaks this is not sufficient and you basically leave your windows open overnight and put your blinds down when there is direct sun shining through your windows to make things bearable without AC.
@@UntilWeGo We pay between 0.35-0.50€uros per kWh .... few houses have AC and the majority are built in a way that they aren't needed. Instead most people close the roller shutters.
@@UntilWeGo Essentially no residential buildings in germany has AC.. again.. electricity costs.. we just suffer for the 4 hot weeks we get a year and thats it
So is that why 90%+ of the homes in the Nordic countries are made of wood... You have no idea what you are talking about as there are extreme climates all over the US.
Six months build time is still a relatively short time. Somewhat larger or more involved projects take between 12-24 months, some even longer. But for most building projects the planning and administrative stage is the longest part. Getting all the paper work done in Germany is HELL! If the ancient Romans hadn't perfected bureaucracy Germans would have. 😄 Once a German house is built it takes some major catastrophe to bring it down. Normal storms do nothing to a German house. Yeah, they might take off a roof tile or two, but usually nothing major. It is quite possible that the grandkids of the couple that built this house will still live in this pretty much unchanged house. Such a house is usually planned to last for at least 70 years, minimum, if not longer. So yeah, investing in good construction techniques may be expensive in the beginning but it will pay for itsself over time. Personally I live in a house in Hamburg that was finished in 1958. So in a mere four years my house will reach that 70 year mark, and I can say with confidence I will be living here in another 20 years NO problem.
Totaler Blödsinn. Haben unseren Grundriss komplett selber entwickelt der Architekt schaute drüber dann ab zum Statiker der setzt eine Teil einer Wand auf 24cm weil der Architekt von meinen 17cm auf 11cm wollte der Rest blieb bei 17cm. Den Rest übernahm der Architekt an Papierkram und ab 17 bis 19 wurde gebaut und fertiggestellt
@@avrracer4175 na klar, Blödsinn. Passiert ja auch niemals, daß im Nachhinein nicht doch die eine oder andere Vorschrift übersehen wurde. Danke für diesen freundlichen Hinweis.
@@RustyDust101 was soll jetzt passieren an Vorschriften?? Hab dem Architekten nur Arbeit abgenommen und sicher zu gehen das der Grundriss so wird, wie wir uns das vorgestellt haben ..😉
Don't be confused mace, it was twenty years ago that detached houses in Germany were always supposed to have a cellar. Due to the rise in construction costs, most builders have been doing without basements for decades now.
It's terrible if they don't add additional thermal insulation on the exterior, because that system is full of thermal bridges.Relying only the insulation inside the blocks means that all that ceramic "comb like" structure transfers heat around the insulation. Heat finds ways just like water. It's called a thermal bridge. In the winter, heat passes through that wall just like water through a sieve. As an architect, I also envy how easy german codes are on the structure, due to having no quakes. In Romania (seismic zone) we have to add reinforced concrete columns even on a single floor house (at least 25x25cm/10x10in, but sometimes 35x35+) on (almost) every wall intersection, every 4m (~13ft), both sides of any opening(door/window) larger than 2.5sqm/~27sqft and the list goes on. What they've built in this vid would be considered very flimsy here. It would not pass inspection and would either be demolished or expensively reinforced.
This is not true. Because of the chambers there is only a very small comb like system. The thick parts of the block are along the wall. They did not connect the inside with the outside. Additional the clay is porous and not a good heat conductor. 60 year old houses were build with those blocks - without insulation only air chambers. But there ate no pattern in the plaster - which would be a sign of heat differences on the surface. And it is ridiculous to complain a house not build for quakes, would not surpass an quake inspection - especially if the house does not stand in a quake zone...
Some "typical" houses are built in 2 weeks (mostly prefabricated ones). Others can take 2 years (mostly with do-it-yourself construction of if the first construction company went bankrupt between). Most houses are still built in "Massivbau" (massive construction) style with either concrete or brick walls (sometimes also a mixture of both), which means as a rule 3 to 6 months construction time, but the market share of modern prefabricated houses is rising (using mostly heavily insulated wood stand construction modules, but also some using log house construction, concrete modules or brick-based modules). 7 minutes vid by a supplier of prefabricated houses: ruclips.net/video/xYBPTeb_XmM/видео.html / 49 minutes documentary about building a prefabricated house during wintertime (featuring another supplier, one of the biggest in Germany, and including details about the prefabrication process): ruclips.net/video/VQcQlxDE9gc/видео.html
11:13 the amount of steel bars that are embedded in concrete depends very much on the area. If the area is in an earthquake zone, there will be much more steel in the concrete.
It also depends, if the romanian and bulgarian workers snitched them away for some extra BBQ&Alcohol money! A malls basement in my hometowne got screwedthis way. It was not waterproof anymore, because workers stole 50% of the steel wires, selling them at the scrap yard. Ground water was forcing its way through the walls in the lowest badement constantly
Unfortunately the series isn't completely posted on YT, but if you google the company Brale you'll find a homestory with the owners. Then you can see the downside of expensive massive construction - the interior is a bit sparse and improvised. The typically lack of money in the first 20 years. Personally, I don't like the layout of the rooms either. A master bedroom with only 16 square meters is a bit small.
I yhink the original is in German. Knowing Germans, they hate making subtitles. So they did it this way. American movies is also synchronized with (real) German vouce actors. Not so here in the Netherlands 😊
Well , they made 8 episodes ( if i remember right ) , thats third ruclips.net/video/fdVMlLKgrSM/видео.html , the 4 th ruclips.net/video/CJf_2_LGxz8/видео.html nd continued with a 5 th Episode ruclips.net/video/1e96lo0N-CM/видео.html with plumbing and installing a Heat Pump and continued with a 6 th episode , the 7 th ( only in German ) ruclips.net/video/g4nsiXeLOpA/видео.html and 8 th ruclips.net/video/9i-Ze04166c/видео.html ( German )
This isn't typical. Normally, you have an inner wall of sand-lime bricks and an outer wall of clinker bricks. The insulation is on the inside of the inner wall. But theoretically, you can also put the insulation between the two walls.
In Norddeutschland wird heute noch so ähnlich gebaut. Tragende Wände innen mit Kalksandstein, dann die Isolierung und dann kommt Klinker. Die Fassade hält 100Jahre und man braucht nicht neu streichen oder verputzen.
A brick will never be proprietary to a construction company, just maybe for the brick company. This kind of bricks are pretty standard and are available from several companies.
@@mick-berry5331 It has good insulation with 365mm blocks, easy to form and cut, lightweight. Just add some rebar and plaster on both sides and it’s done. Expensive? Get out, the cost for the building blocks for a whole house is negligible.
Statistics shows that the price level of housing is ca 115% of the average level in Europe, topped by the Scandinavian and Benelux countries and some others like Ireland and Switzerland.
How in the world do you think it makes sense, structurally, to move a brick house?! WTF? Your US & Canada stick houses, sure. A brick house? My guy... :))))
A typical german house. 1st minute: no basement. I'd say, a basement IS typical. Funny side fact: in my younger years, i was a plasterer (you know, those guys who do plastering and "stucco"). Stucco (Stuck) is actually a special part of plastering in germany, those fancy ornaments and colums and stuff. I was 17 and wanted to finish my apprenticeship in germany, so i could then go to the US as the MAN and plaster all the US guys on the wall (wordplay?). Turned out, they send me on a job by myself, the first day. They told me, they prepared everything and i would find a toolbag there, with everything i need. When i opened that bag, half the tools i had never seen before in my life. It was literally to 70% a different job.
"Do you have have Google Earth in Germany?"
No, it's just named "Google EARTH" for fun. 🤣🤣🤣
True 🤣 there is countries today didn’t let them take pictures of everything though 🤘
@@UntilWeGo Ah, that might be. Makes sense. 🙂
@@UntilWeGo You are mixing up Google Earth (aka satellite images) and Google Streetview. The latter wasn’t available in Germany for a long time.
We have Google Maps that includes Street View.
@@Headhunter-5000 To provide some context, Google started filming Germany for Streetciew in 2008. In mid 2010 it made the announcement that it planned to cover the 20 largest cities in Germany. The first images were available to the public by the end of the year.
However, Google received so many request from individuals, almost 250’000, to blur their properties as well as general public backlash that it said in April 2011 that it would stop expanding and updating Google Streetview in Germany.
After Apple offered their version in 2022, Google started up again and since 2023, Google Streetview has new updated images and a much more expanded area for Germany.
As it has no cellar, it is rather atypical.
No, the trend is that way because a basement is about three times as expensive as an additional floor and a shed with a carport is even cheaper.
Having a basement adds 30% cost to the whole building so a lot of people omit one now..
It also depends on the region.
In water protection areas, you cannot build a basement underground, so the ground floor often has to be built as a raised ground floor. Added to this are the high costs of an accurate drainage system.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezerGenerally, the more expensive the land is, the more floors you’ll want to build. But zoning rules often restrict the height to a maximum of three floors. Meaning once you’ve hit the height limit, you start building underground.
Exactly, in general this German house looks like a very low budget variant. Today people usually use 50 cm thick bricks, not those small 25 or 30 cm ones. The bitumen barrier usually comes directly on the concrete slab, before the first layer of bricks is layed. But again, without a proper cellar they have to improvise.
Not really a classic German house. Especially because there is no cellar/basement. Houses without these are built like that because of money. Digging and building a cellar ist very expensive, but a part of a typical German house
nicht wenn du im moor gebiet lebst mein lieber, da kannst du es so oder so vergessen, nicht mal ne 2 millionen villa hat nen keller hier also wenn schon dann sag es auch mit allen gründen
Genau! Ein Haus ohne Keller ist wie ein Hund ohne Schwanz 😀
Ein Keller und teuer ? Eher nicht wer mit Keller baut gibt keine Unsummen aus... Der Platz den man erhält ist unbezahlbar
@@bicolour4412Hammer Säge Schwanz benutzt man immer ganz!
@@avrracer4175 Sehe ich als Architekt auch so. Sofern es keinen Grund gibt aus technischen Gründen keinen zu bauen (hoher Gr.wasserstand etc.) dann gehört ein Keller dazu. Allein schon, um die Haustechnik anständig unterzubringen. Aber billig ist ein Keller nicht wirklich. 80-100.000 Euro Aufpreis kann das bei einem normalen Haus schnell mal ausmachen.
German houses are a lot more expensive than American houses, but also a lot sturdier. Over the time, they are cheaper, as there will be less to repair.
And less cost for heating or cooling.
@@hansjanko7966 Of course. Better insulation.
They are pribobly cheaper, but also smaler. Basically half the size, but also a lot cheaper, probobly not quite half the price.
Also worth saying that a typical german plot is 600-800m2 while in the us its almost double.
Part of that is eaten by us fire rules in most state forces residential buildings to be moved back from the street quite a lot.
maybe for generations
Is there Google Earth in Germany? No, of course not. The whole earth, except Germany! We still live in trees and send messages with bush drums! 😀
🤣 I meant street view, lol I know some countries didn’t allow it
No, we havnt electic Ligth, not Refrigator, not Cars not Train, not Airplanes ...! Only idiots in USA ?
12 m³ concrete ≈ 28.8 metric tons
Of course we have Google Earth in Germany.
If you want to see the roof you should watch part 3.
Practically, all houses in Germany are built this way, reinforced concrete floor and bricks. Insulating bricks are a newer development. The elements for the ceiling are called "Fettdecke". When our house was built in 1969, they were unknown. To pour the ceiling, all rooms were full of adjustable steel columns with wooden sheets on top. Then the electrician builds a network of tubes and a ceiling outlet for all rooms because the electricity distribution is in the ceiling enclosed in the concrete. From the ceiling, tubes are run down to where switches and wall outlets are to be. They have a special tool to cut grooves in the wall, looking like an angle grinder with two disks. After this is all installed, the ceiling is poured. Routing additional power lines or pipes requires significant effort. The pieces over the window openings are especially strong concrete beams. If you try to drill a hole into them, you notice the big difference to a regular wall. I wish our house were built with these insulating bricks. In 1969 insulation was irrelevant, heating was very cheap. Until 1974.
I don't know one house in Germany without a basement.
i know some, since building a house is becoming almost impossible for the money, people save money without getting a basement. i dont like it but whatever
nothern germany has few basements. too high groundwater to dig deep without exploding costs
The Installation of the Electric and Heating,Water and Technic stuff is the important part!
this is an entire series of videos, showing everything from start to finish
There are additional videos for this house, where it gets finished.
I have to say it…. I love to hear you say Moin. As a North German it‘s sounds so familiar to me. Wonderful
Yeah, we still do tend to build for centuries... let's say, it's a habbit ;D
Our houses are mostly built of stone. My house (Approx. 300m² of living space without storage rooms, technical rooms and stairwell with hallway) with fired Poroton brick with a wall thickness of 40cm because of the insulation. The windows are triple glazed. On the roof are heavy concrete tiles (type: Frankfurter Pfannen). The masonry stands on a homogeneously cast reinforced concrete floor slab with a foundation substructure, depending on the subsoil (sand, gravel, rock). The ceiling panels consist of 20-25cm thick reinforced concrete.
The roof beams are made of wood that could bear an extreme snow load. The side bars of my house are 40cm high and 35cm thick. They have a length of 16m each. The roof beams are 20cm high and 14cm thick! The completely finished basement has the same floor plan as the ground floor and could be lived in!
I live in the Swabian Alb. The building regulations require a stable (expensive) construction. I have a double garage with an extension for garden tools. The garage is not connected to the house and can be reached through a door through the courtyard. The length of the garage is 10m, the width is 7m. Both floors have a bathroom and one each guest toilet. The guest toilets are each also equipped with a urinal (for the boys). The heating is a combined oil-solar central heating. In addition, each floor has a tiled stove(heated with wood). The room height, including that of the basement, is 2.8 m. The basement could be inhabited, it is completely covered with tiles! In addition, it has a toilet and a shower (after gardening). Owning your own house is very expensive in Germany, which is why most Germans rent it. I was lucky that my father was a master mason and I was able to learn a lot from him. In addition, my brothers and brother-in-law have been very supportive. I think it would have been more difficult! Not to forget, we have a Liebherr fridge-freezer combination on every floor. We also have a huge freezer in the basement. For the venison from my son(hunter).😉
The U and Canadian houses are huts, glued together with salvia.
Lousy insulation forces You to AC in summer and heating in winter, and never trouble with termites
Whatever You save on the house You pay later via the electricity bill
Check Part 2 to see the rest
You mean part 3...
HAHAHA Ah yes that is why the US has 1-2k heat related deaths each year, even with harsher climates. Meanwhile Germany had 9100 in 2022... Even though the US also has over 4x the population.
Ein massives Haus hat eine geplante Gewährleistung von 300 Jahren,ein Fertighaus 80 Jahre. Der Überstand ist die(Regen) Traufante .Man braucht ca.1000 Steine für ein kleines Haus.
The reddish bricks are adobe. They have a high (heat) insulation value but are more expensive than default concrete bricks. Other popular bricks are heavy, white limestones (high noise insulation) which are often used for structural walls between two apartments and between apartments and staircases in apartment buildings. Some people also use them for walls without casing or stukko e.g. garages and garden walls. Then there is Ytong (a brand name) or autoclaved aerated concrete. They are ultra-light weight (because they are 50% air) and can be sawed to fit.
Hello! Watch to the End!More Parts next time please 😊
how many were there? i think between 6 or 7 in total, too lazy to look for them now, sorry.
They use an AI voice only for their English version (there is a German version of this video with a human voice).
No houses in Germany are taken away ... they all stay where they were built..... you sell your house and buy a new one - or rent one ..
A typical german house. 1st minute: no basement. I'd say, a basement IS typical. Funny side fact: in my younger years, i was a plasterer (you know, those guys who do plastering and "stucco"). Stucco (Stuck) is actually a special part of plastering in germany, those fancy ornaments and colums and stuff. I was 17 and wanted to finish my apprenticeship in germany, so i could then go to the US as the MAN and plaster all the US guys on the wall (wordplay?). Turned out, they send me on a job by myself, the first day. They told me, they prepared everything and i would find a toolbag there, with everything i need. When i opened that bag, half the tools i had never seen before in my life. It was literally to 70% a different job. PS: might have slipped your attention, but this seems to be a multi part series (roof f.e.), since this said "part 2" in the beginning
This ist not a german house, it's just a "cheap" bungalow ... no cellar and stuff! We have some of this buildings in our area, but I don't wanted to live there! *sorry
"Cheap"
It's not a typical German house, because it has no basement and there are other parts in the build in later videos that are not standard. It's maybe a standard for the specific company that built the house. Having no basement reduces the resale value and garages or sheds are not really an alternative. German garages are only barely bigger than a car with average 5x2.5m and when there is a car inside there is no place for a hobby room like in a basement. The most expensive part is the property in most areas and often you are limited in building height, so an additional floor above ground is not possible an dosme don't have the space for a garage. The average price for a floor slab is about 170€/m² and for a basement about 180-250€/m² (sometimes more) depending on the ground material and in my opinion if you save money by not building a basement you should wait until you have the money for a basement.
basements became like 3x the averagle above floor within the last decade. latest price hickes not included yet.
And, mind you, you're not legally allowed to store anything other than vehicles and vehicle-related things in garages (I'm aware than almost no-one follows that rule, but still - you can't see a garage as just an extra room to your house).
Tons of new builds in Germany don't have basements.
@@andrewrichards9042 Doesn't change that basements are preferred.... plots are most of the time smaller in Germany than the US and having a basement is storage space without the need for a bigger plot of land. The problem is plots of land are so much more expensive compared to years ago that buying a bigger plot is expensive. On average(!) 1m² cost 270€ (I know there are cheaper areas, but there are more expensive, too). If you want a plot that is just 200m² bigger you talk about 54000€ - the same an average basement will cost you and a bigger plot will cost you more properties taxes over time unlike a basement....
@@drsnova7313 Right, and unlike in the USA in most German garages is barely enough space for a car plus spare tires with 5mx2.5m or 3x6m if it is big single car garage. A neighbor drives a Ford F150 Raptor - He can't park the car in the garage, because he is not able to open the doors of the car to leave it and the second problem would be the height. The space under the door is 180cm and F150 is about 200cm high at the highest point.
Many houses are built brick by brick, but there are also houses based on timber frame construction.
A house like this is currently being built in our town and in another street 2 detached houses and 1 semi-detached house have been built .
As a rule, it can be said that after the shell has been completed, it takes around 3 months for the interior work.
Depending on whether you buy directly from a property developer or have an architect plan and build your house, the construction time often depends on the availability of the individual trades and on imponderables, such as delays due to extremely bad weather.
A lite deck icf roof is 6 inches of structural concrete. Then a EPDM layer, then 2 inches of concrete and waterproofing. The EPDM lasts forever being buried, and the roof is insulated via lite deck. Tornado proof and super strong, and can handle any amount of snow load.
For your information... This is actually a DEMO house. Germany and Denmark have the same type of builds.
I follow a channel in which a woman who normally knits is "renovating" an old house near Vancouver on her own with her boyfriend. In reality, they are actually tearing it down. 😄 I've been working in the German construction industry for over thirty years as a design engineer in a structural engineering office and every time I watch their video, I wonder more how this old hut has been able to stand for so long. 😉😄🇩🇪🇪🇺
Much sturdier than stick construction, better insulation and no chance of mold problems caused by construction errors. The downside is price which is obviously higher.
At least in my area of Germany the outer walls are at least 3 layers, the immer load besting layer is usually constructional calcium silicate bricks (large scale, the whole layer is), mineral wool as thermo insulation, a thin layer of air to dry the insulation and bricks if they ever get wet )optional, and an outer shell of either clinker bricks (those are regulated at around 11,5cm × 24cm and 6,5 cm) or plaster/ stucco (the inside
usually is stucco + paint or stucco+ wallpaper+ paint. The loadbearing elements can vary, but it's usually wood, brick, concrete or steel, ceilings are usually steel+concrete unless that would be too heavy, the building is old or you're at the uppermost floor. Hope that helps :D
I worked under a chef and it was so much fun to watch and also a lot frustrated how he complicated his building site!
Also he hired the cheapest workers who were not able to do anything properly!
In this video it shows how its done but some German contractors work like verbrechers means something like scammers!
I also experienced alot of great contractors here 2!
Many scammers mostly have a short period to do Business locally then they have to depend on clients minimum 16miles away from company location!
Common house building in western Europe, not only in Germany, of course several techniques and material exists but the results are almost the same, a strong concrete house made from blocks and bricks ;-)
Perforated clay bricks are popular in Europe, and this house last for 300 years
I knew it was not the largest, but now you made me check... Vancouver island is number 43
Haha top 50 I guess 😂😂😂😂
Thats why German houses last and American houses get blown away.
One more reactor who doesn't notice that the endcard has a playlist of all episodes. So the number of those who did notice still remains at 0. ;)
Although, parts 7 and 8 are not available in English, but I see others have already linked them.
This house uses underfloor wiring, a fairly modern technique. I think it became popular after people noticed that underfloor heating pipes worked well and wondered if the same could be done for electrical wires. Traditionally, electrical wires are run in channels cut into the bricks about a foot below the ceiling, unlike, for example, the UK, which traditionally runs them below the floorboards.
They show how the roof looked at the very begining.
Now, you have to watch all the episodes of this house building journey.
That was not a typical German house. It did not even have a cellar and modern day houses are way flimsier and more cost effective. Houses here used to be way more solid with much thicker walls and the costlier houses are made of concrete. Good thing is that modern walls are less prone to mould and will still be sturdy enough and insulate just as well. Never seen a German house without a cellar though. The music is embarassing though. I would expect this music to accompany a mission to Mars perhaps. It is way too epic and upbeat for the building of a random house that doesn't even have a cellar.
Your infatuation with cellars is out of date.
@@mick-berry5331 cellars will never be out of date
@@mortanos8938 Not really, I like cellars, but for a lot of people, they are not cost-effective as they mostly use them to store useless stuff. In the old days, cellars were necessary for insulation and as a barrier to ground humidity. They lost this function with the advent of advanced materials. Hardly anybody needs a lot of storage space anymore for potatoes, apples, pears, eggs in big jars, rows of glasses of jam, preserved vegetables and such.
@@mick-berry5331 Your assessment is fair enough. However, the cellars of family houses in Germany are usually the same size as the surface area on the above floors, and will be used either for living quarters, or entertainment rooms, or other, not just for storage. For Germany a house without cellar will always be uncommon.
The precision in german construction has to be 1%
The 12m² concrete weigh when wet 30 metric tonnes. Dry maybe 25 mt
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You should watch part 3
Wooden houses the way they are bulit on north america would be terribhle in germany.
they have almost no insulation meaning your heating bill would be through the roof..
energy and electricity costs 3-4 times as much in germany as it does in Northa america
Do these get too hot in summer or thats ok just as long as you have A/c?
@@UntilWeGoAC in residential housing is very rare in Germany. However, stone walls have a lot of ‘thermal mass’, meaning it takes a good amount of energy to heat them up. This basically buffers temperature changes. During the day, the outside heat must first heat up the stone walls before it reaches the interior. This on its own means that the day-night temperature changes inside are much more muted than the outside temperatures. This also helps when there is only one or two really hot days.
Of course, for longer hot streaks this is not sufficient and you basically leave your windows open overnight and put your blinds down when there is direct sun shining through your windows to make things bearable without AC.
@@UntilWeGo We pay between 0.35-0.50€uros per kWh .... few houses have AC and the majority are built in a way that they aren't needed. Instead most people close the roller shutters.
@@UntilWeGo Essentially no residential buildings in germany has AC.. again.. electricity costs..
we just suffer for the 4 hot weeks we get a year and thats it
So is that why 90%+ of the homes in the Nordic countries are made of wood... You have no idea what you are talking about as there are extreme climates all over the US.
Depending the quality of concrete it weighs between 2.2 and 2,4 Tons per cubic Metre!
Kindly the Danish Viking
Sometimes it is used the lightweight wich goes from 1400-1900 kg/m³
I think that documentary is divided in 4 part, it shows the entire house in the last part
The orginial video cries out "I am not a real speaker - I am an AI-generated voice!" - a.k.a. Crap.
Six months build time is still a relatively short time. Somewhat larger or more involved projects take between 12-24 months, some even longer.
But for most building projects the planning and administrative stage is the longest part. Getting all the paper work done in Germany is HELL!
If the ancient Romans hadn't perfected bureaucracy Germans would have. 😄
Once a German house is built it takes some major catastrophe to bring it down. Normal storms do nothing to a German house.
Yeah, they might take off a roof tile or two, but usually nothing major. It is quite possible that the grandkids of the couple that built this house will still live in this pretty much unchanged house.
Such a house is usually planned to last for at least 70 years, minimum, if not longer. So yeah, investing in good construction techniques may be expensive in the beginning but it will pay for itsself over time.
Personally I live in a house in Hamburg that was finished in 1958. So in a mere four years my house will reach that 70 year mark, and I can say with confidence I will be living here in another 20 years NO problem.
Totaler Blödsinn. Haben unseren Grundriss komplett selber entwickelt der Architekt schaute drüber dann ab zum Statiker der setzt eine Teil einer Wand auf 24cm weil der Architekt von meinen 17cm auf 11cm wollte der Rest blieb bei 17cm. Den Rest übernahm der Architekt an Papierkram und ab 17 bis 19 wurde gebaut und fertiggestellt
@@avrracer4175 na klar, Blödsinn. Passiert ja auch niemals, daß im Nachhinein nicht doch die eine oder andere Vorschrift übersehen wurde. Danke für diesen freundlichen Hinweis.
@@RustyDust101 was soll jetzt passieren an Vorschriften?? Hab dem Architekten nur Arbeit abgenommen und sicher zu gehen das der Grundriss so wird, wie wir uns das vorgestellt haben ..😉
How about taking a look at the German demolition industry and the specialized machinery we use.
😎 cool any links
They could've spent a few bucks on a translator, but I guess a somewhat awkward AI translation got the job done just well enough.
this house looks like a very low budget variant
Don't be confused mace, it was twenty years ago that detached houses in Germany were always supposed to have a cellar. Due to the rise in construction costs, most builders have been doing without basements for decades now.
And they don’t even have Hurricanes and shit! This will be a 300 year old house easy!❤
It's terrible if they don't add additional thermal insulation on the exterior, because that system is full of thermal bridges.Relying only the insulation inside the blocks means that all that ceramic "comb like" structure transfers heat around the insulation.
Heat finds ways just like water. It's called a thermal bridge. In the winter, heat passes through that wall just like water through a sieve.
As an architect, I also envy how easy german codes are on the structure, due to having no quakes. In Romania (seismic zone) we have to add reinforced concrete columns even on a single floor house (at least 25x25cm/10x10in, but sometimes 35x35+) on (almost) every wall intersection, every 4m (~13ft), both sides of any opening(door/window) larger than 2.5sqm/~27sqft and the list goes on. What they've built in this vid would be considered very flimsy here. It would not pass inspection and would either be demolished or expensively reinforced.
This is not true.
Because of the chambers there is only a very small comb like system.
The thick parts of the block are along the wall. They did not connect the inside with the outside.
Additional the clay is porous and not a good heat conductor.
60 year old houses were build with those blocks - without insulation only air chambers. But there ate no pattern in the plaster - which would be a sign of heat differences on the surface.
And it is ridiculous to complain a house not build for quakes, would not surpass an quake inspection - especially if the house does not stand in a quake zone...
Some "typical" houses are built in 2 weeks (mostly prefabricated ones). Others can take 2 years (mostly with do-it-yourself construction of if the first construction company went bankrupt between). Most houses are still built in "Massivbau" (massive construction) style with either concrete or brick walls (sometimes also a mixture of both), which means as a rule 3 to 6 months construction time, but the market share of modern prefabricated houses is rising (using mostly heavily insulated wood stand construction modules, but also some using log house construction, concrete modules or brick-based modules). 7 minutes vid by a supplier of prefabricated houses: ruclips.net/video/xYBPTeb_XmM/видео.html / 49 minutes documentary about building a prefabricated house during wintertime (featuring another supplier, one of the biggest in Germany, and including details about the prefabrication process): ruclips.net/video/VQcQlxDE9gc/видео.html
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the amount of steel bars that are embedded in concrete depends very much on the area. If the area is in an earthquake zone, there will be much more steel in the concrete.
It also depends, if the romanian and bulgarian workers snitched them away for some extra BBQ&Alcohol money! A malls basement in my hometowne got screwedthis way. It was not waterproof anymore, because workers stole 50% of the steel wires, selling them at the scrap yard. Ground water was forcing its way through the walls in the lowest badement constantly
6 month is not much, but considering a basement is missing, I guess it is ok. Typically a German house needs about a year to finish.
Unfortunately the series isn't completely posted on YT, but if you google the company Brale you'll find a homestory with the owners. Then you can see the downside of expensive massive construction - the interior is a bit sparse and improvised. The typically lack of money in the first 20 years. Personally, I don't like the layout of the rooms either. A master bedroom with only 16 square meters is a bit small.
This House has no typical Cellar, only a non normal basement. 😳
A cellar can cost as much as the rest of the house, so many houses don't have any, nowadays.
I yhink the original is in German. Knowing Germans, they hate making subtitles. So they did it this way. American movies is also synchronized with (real) German vouce actors. Not so here in the Netherlands 😊
Well , they made 8 episodes ( if i remember right ) , thats third ruclips.net/video/fdVMlLKgrSM/видео.html , the 4 th ruclips.net/video/CJf_2_LGxz8/видео.html nd continued with a 5 th Episode ruclips.net/video/1e96lo0N-CM/видео.html with plumbing and installing a Heat Pump and continued with a 6 th episode , the 7 th ( only in German ) ruclips.net/video/g4nsiXeLOpA/видео.html and 8 th ruclips.net/video/9i-Ze04166c/видео.html ( German )
Big FAIL: They didn't put traditional Norwegian turf / grass on the roof! And no goat on the roof either. Goats are mandatory on roofs in Norway.
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The Journey to build a German House: Part 2 😂 greetings ❤
Yeah, but this was actually part 2, and your episode is part 3.
This isn't typical. Normally, you have an inner wall of sand-lime bricks and an outer wall of clinker bricks. The insulation is on the inside of the inner wall. But theoretically, you can also put the insulation between the two walls.
Nobody builds like you describe as typical today. I heard these double-wall houses were prevalent in the 1930s in some geographical areas.
In Norddeutschland wird heute noch so ähnlich gebaut.
Tragende Wände innen mit Kalksandstein, dann die Isolierung und dann kommt Klinker.
Die Fassade hält 100Jahre und man braucht nicht neu streichen oder verputzen.
A typical German Family home, with a special kind of Brick that is proprietary to this construction company...Ah well, similar enough i guess.
A brick will never be proprietary to a construction company, just maybe for the brick company. This kind of bricks are pretty standard and are available from several companies.
Thought the aerated concrete like Ytong was more common
@@user2kffs Ytong is expensive and weak, I think it's crap.
@@mick-berry5331 It has good insulation with 365mm blocks, easy to form and cut, lightweight. Just add some rebar and plaster on both sides and it’s done. Expensive? Get out, the cost for the building blocks for a whole house is negligible.
@@mick-berry5331 Maybe get some experience before you start writing crap
HAhahaha, AI! Do you really believe we Germans are so fast to do AI-Videos in business context? 😂
You can also find movable houses in Germany... They are called caravans.
An insulated form Concrete house would go up faster and be stronger. I wonder if Germans are using ICF?
wow four ciling windows... i have just one... 5.5m x 2.3m...
No basement, no fritzl
Its called google EARTH. Germany is on Earth if i am right.
You should see a Greek house!even German ones look fake compared to them
It's not a classic european house. Even There are a multitude types of constructions
some...german houses. rest are made from Stones and Concrete.
Do we have Google Earth in Germany? Are you serious?
Sehr interessantes Video. In kaum einem anderen Land ist der Hausbau so teuer als in Deutschland. Es ist völlig unnötig.
Statistics shows that the price level of housing is ca 115% of the average level in Europe, topped by the Scandinavian and Benelux countries and some others like Ireland and Switzerland.
ruclips.net/video/fubbtelb1VE/видео.html 11qm are like 22-25 tons
How in the world do you think it makes sense, structurally, to move a brick house?! WTF? Your US & Canada stick houses, sure. A brick house? My guy... :))))
Why you say moin ?^^
Germans love canadians...i Personal have 4 female friends..marriaged and living in canada
3 of em live in Brit.Col.
Theese are real houses and not wooden boxes with a roof on top
And this how the Dutch drive in Paris Dakar in a semi: ruclips.net/video/AWCNnlk8rkU/видео.html
Moin aus Lübeck, der Königin der Hanse in Schleswig-Holstein.
Hello from Lübeck, the Queen of the Hanseatic League in Schleswig-Holstein.
Moin
i hate AI voice, very annoying
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In my country everi house til the 90is was bilt like this. Slovenia
A typical german house. 1st minute: no basement. I'd say, a basement IS typical. Funny side fact: in my younger years, i was a plasterer (you know, those guys who do plastering and "stucco"). Stucco (Stuck) is actually a special part of plastering in germany, those fancy ornaments and colums and stuff. I was 17 and wanted to finish my apprenticeship in germany, so i could then go to the US as the MAN and plaster all the US guys on the wall (wordplay?). Turned out, they send me on a job by myself, the first day. They told me, they prepared everything and i would find a toolbag there, with everything i need. When i opened that bag, half the tools i had never seen before in my life. It was literally to 70% a different job.