Did anyone here ever build one of those wooden kit houses from Germany?

NIMAN

I remember doing a fair bit of reading up on them back in the day, as we were thinking of building a house but ended up buying after the crash.

Admittedly there is probably more sources of them than Germany, but it seemed to be the location for a lot of the reviews on them.

Wondering how many Irish people actually bought such a house, and how they find it now having lived with it for a decade or so?

Muahahaha

Would be interested to hear myself. They seem like a great idea and the fact they're built within a week seems pretty good. Though there has to be questions about how something designed in Germany might handle the Irish climate over decades. I believe they are not all that cheaper than regular construction methods, perhaps 20% less? I know the German Huff houses featured on Grand Designs before can cost more than a traditional build but they do look amazing.

wobbie10

I worked for -snip- at one stage. Great way to build and we put up over 100 one off homes across the country. The did modify the Austrian wall build up and created a wall for the wetter Irish climate.

They were not cheap however costly more than the traditional build. Mind you they were A rated homes before that became common.

Lovely homes

NIMAN

Funnily enough, just seen this advert in the NW

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£4,800 for a 4 bed house! (minus all the labour and extra bits to make it a property you could live in of course).