A southern slope is ideal for a plot of land for development. The house itself should be located so that large windows face south. Select the size of the plot at least eight acres - optimally nine to ten (in our case, 9.24 acres). With such an area, you will be able to fully realize your idea, because a modern project, in addition to the house, must also take into account the recreation area.

After preparing the site for construction, we decided to start immediately with the fence: pour its foundation and build a frame. Along the perimeter of our site, we arranged a concrete beam, which also serves as a retaining wall. Thanks to her, we leveled the area to a perfectly flat plane with the same slope.

To begin with, a sketch project is quite enough, but in the future you will need a constructive one. You will have to review the project dozens of times and analyze every centimeter. After all, it is at this stage that the understanding of the dimensions of the house, the appearance of its facade appears, and the decision is made regarding the final planning option.

We started this stage by digging a pit. After that, the pillow was concreted and the foundation itself was made. Waterproofing and insulation were carried out immediately. We emphasize that warming the foundation is a mandatory step.

We relied on a geothermal heat pump to heat and cool the house. To install it, we drilled three wells of 100 m each. After that, plastic pipes with a total length of 1200 m were sunk into the ground. Actually, these pipes take the necessary temperature of the ground in winter and summer.

The final step in external communications for us was water and rain drainage and the installation of autonomous sewage. At the same time, we leveled and compacted the inner part of the foundations of the houses, which were previously filled with scree (sand and clay).

The first thing that is needed at this stage is a construction plan and constructive solutions. However, the main question for us was: "What material to build from?".

Choose reinforced concrete without any doubt. When calculating the reinforcement of the floor slab, we made sure that there was not a single protruding beam in the house. All of them should be in the overlay body. Otherwise, in most cases, protruding beams significantly complicate design decisions and become a big problem when conducting air ducts of the ventilation system.

The construction of a single-pitched roof attracted us primarily because of its high energy efficiency, because we avoid almost all bridges of cold, and in winter, snow works to preserve heat.

At this stage, be careful, because warming the facade is a responsible process. Your future utility bills directly depend on it.

They worked exactly in this sequence - first the decoration, and then the installation of windows. A significant advantage of this approach is that we get the maximum tightness of connections, break cold bridges and install windows already after finishing the facade, screeds and plaster.