My home: why the concept of the "ideal" home has changed now

I built myself a house with a basement and a semi-attic floor. I have been living for six years. From operating experience I want to say the following. With reinforced concrete floors and 15cm of expanded clay concrete screed, audibility is the same as in an apartment building.

Fortunately, the children on the second floor and not the neighbors are less annoying, but still. I hate narrow corridors and staircases, so the staircase takes 10 square meters from me. on each floor.

Fortunately, its design made it possible to place an entrance hall under it on the first and a storage room in the basement. In general, I am happy with my home, but now my concept of the "ideal" home has changed.

Now I would build a one-story house on a low plinth, possibly L-shaped or T-shaped, in order to space the places common areas (hall, living room and dining room) and bedrooms as much as possible, so that silence and personal space.

As for heating, I would like to make a remark as a specialist, it is more expensive to heat a one-story house, because the most large heat losses through the attic floor, then through windows and doors, and only last through walls. But this can be solved, no one forbids putting in the attic not 20 cm of insulation, but 40 for example.

And the last thing about the cost of construction. The cost of a box is no more than a third of the cost of the entire construction, the rest is finishing and engineering, and it is the same for any house design. Therefore, the difference in the cost of the boxes will not greatly affect the total cost of the construction.

I have a specialized higher education. And I know what the feasibility study for choosing the type and thickness of insulation on the enclosing structures is. Which, by the way, includes, in addition to the technical characteristics of the insulation and sanitary and hygienic standards, the cost and service life of the insulation and the building itself, the cost of energy carriers.

As a result, you get an economically feasible type and optimal thickness of insulation, so that capital and operating costs for the entire period of the building's operation are minimal. And only then: "... and further increase in layer thickness does not play any role."

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