Canadian Reacts to Building a House in Germany - The Roof
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Moin, there are different building styles in Germany, as someone who has worked in construction for over 20 years and I have helped build houses, especially here in the north, I can say that in northern Germany there are houses with basements, but the trend here in the north is towards basementless ones Build. This not only saves money, but in some parts of northern Germany it also has to do with a higher groundwater level, which would have to be laboriously sealed when building a cellar so that the water does not push through the cellar floor. I have now worked on over 12 houses and none of them had a basement. Furthermore, in the north, houses are often finished with clinker bricks instead of plaster. Northern Germany is very flat and often windy. In plastered houses it can be observed that the wind causes the plaster and thus the paint to become dirty more quickly than in the south. Clinker bricks are an advantage here because they do not have to be laboriously maintained. All in all, there are now different construction methods in Germany, so you can no longer say that this is typical. Greetings from Schleswig-Holstein
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Interesting view on German houses.
When I was a child I went with my friend to contruction sites to look what was done there :)
In the 1950ths, most of the houses were built with cellars for storage, not considering the costs. Nowadays the cost argument is prevailing.
High ground water levels is another argument against a cellar. But in my hometown in the center of Germany we have a different underground:
- on one side of the small river, there is a very deep layer of clay, nearly everywhere
- on the other side, the farest extentions of an ancien vulcano, there is solid rock beneath 40 or 60 centimeters. There, nobody builds a cellar.
Regarding the shape of the roof: "Doppeltes Walmdach" = double hipped roof
- it might look nice
- it deprives you of usable room/ space (therefore there are many new houses with flat top roofs maximising the living space under given restritions)
- its nearly useless for a photovoltaic system: half of the area is not usable. The architects haven't changed there plans in their drawers yet ;)
Roof?
I did'nt know that huts in america need that stuff 🤣🤣🤣
The celebration is called "Richtfest". For this, the wooden part of the roof must be finished. Notice there is no roof ventilation because the roof is insulated, not just the topmost ceiling like in American houses. For that reason, there are no soffits and roof vents.
Huh? This is not even the half of the original video.
No Problem! Time must go on!
It is a typical house. People just don't know what "typical" means. "Typical" does not mean "every house is that way", it doesn't even mean "that's the most common type", it means "houses like that are nothing alien, super rare, or one-of-a-kind". The clue is right in the word, "typical" comes from "type". This is one of the types of houses that exist in Germany.
The etymology of the word 'typical' comes from the latin word typicalis, so does the word type. The meaning of the word type is different as the word typical.
Typicalis means: the most usual characteristics of a person of object. Very much what our word typical means.
The word type means a specific set of characteristics of a person of object, So type lost it's original meaning and the clue is NOT in the name.
Next please!
Moin, I'm not that sure how houses were build in Canada, but I believe it's nearly like in the US. There is a cultural difference why germans or europeans don't build the houses out of wood, in this light build version like the US do. It's not only for weather, we build houses for generations, for our childreen. In the past europeans were very domestic, meanwhile it changed, but the house building stays the same than houndreds of years ago.
The reality is, the way we build houses in Germany makes us pay for the house for a big part of our work-life. If we are done with paying, the children have left the house because it's too small to be a multi generation home. Then the repairs because of the age of the house are due. After that, the homeowners are maybe too old to keep living there on their own. So the house is sold to pay for their care. A developer buys the property and the house, and demolishes it. It's too outdated because of ever-changing regulations, which the new owner needs to meet. The property is much more worth without the house. Meanwhile, the children are busy repeating the cycle. Yes, that's a bit cynical, but essentially true.
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The roof construction looks kinda flimsy for German standards. That house was definitely on the cheaper side.