II. Is the design included in the price and do you have a catalogue of type projects?
Yes, "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. is the only one in the country to dispose of over 500 type projects for houses, with total built-up area of 73 m2 to 870 m2. The company stimulates work on type projects, as well as helps the clients in developing their own notions for a home. Our architects elaborate individual projects and work on customer's assignment.
III. Why do we say that "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd `s houses are power-saving?
Because of the low power consumption in both the course of building and during the exploitation period. We show you graphically the difference in material consumption for heating in monolithic construction and in "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. house.
IV. What documents do I need ?
IV.1.
To start planning and begin the next stages we need :
1. Zoned property
2. Planning visa
3. Conciliation letters from Electrical Distribution and Water Supply
4. An exemplary project from our catalogue or an idea assigned by you. We would help you develop your own concepts of a home. Our architects work on individual projects upon customer's request with the necessary specifications of all details.
IV.2.
In 30 days "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. designers prepare the planning documentation for the construction. With the set of documents you go to the technical office of the section (the location of the property) and you, the investor, leave it to be coordinated. Upon your request you can enter an agreement with an independent construction supervision, which on your behalf will be controlling the entire construction process.
IV.3.
After we receive the building lease we begin the construction works. While we wait for the necessary technological time needed for the foundations to dry (around 14 days) to elapse, all the constructive elements of the construction are manufactured. If you have engaged an independent construction supervision firm, verification of the different construction stages of your future home is performed. After completion of the construction works we prepare in collaboration with you, the investor and/or the construction supervision the procedure of issuing a permit for use (Act16), according to regulations of the Town Planning Law, in accordance with the latest changes.
V. Where does the comfort of living in such a house come from?
"EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. `s houses are warm in the winter and cool in the summer. This fact is due to the extraordinarily good heat-insulation of all elements - walls, floor, ceiling. A prefabricated house has a ratio which is 2,45 times better than this of a brick building, i.e. 25 cm of a panel wall for a prefabricated house equals 61.25 cm of brick wall. Their ratio of heat transfer is nearly the same in low energy houses and is many times lower than the standard for brick buildings.
VI. To what extent the constructions of the prefabricated house are earthquake-resistant?
The houses of "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. are built with a galvanized metal construction. Buildings with such a structure are recommended for construction in seismic areas for the following reasons:
1.Metal as a constructive material is exceptionally solid. It can endure great single loads and recover its initial condition afterwards.
2.There are no monolithic (immobile) joints in these buildings. All the fittings sustain a certain displacement, without destruction.
3.The considerably lower weight of the construction contributes to much smaller forces of inertia.
VII. What is the payment method?
On signing of the contract - 10 % - for planning.
For finished project - 50 % - for foundation building and manufacture and assembly of the metal construction.
For set up: construction and foundation - 40 % - for finishing works on the contract specification.
In lending :
20 % - for planning, geological research, excavation, encasing, reinforcement and placing of concrete of striped foundations.
80 % - are financed by the Bank for a period of 5 to 30 years.
Prefabricated house crediting example scheme: Total available area - 80 m2, credit time limit 30 years:
Credit amount : ........... Euro
Credit time limit : ...... years
Annual interest rate : ...... %
Equal monthly installment for the period: ............ Euro
VIII. Can you start building immediately?
We must be notified for your intentions at least 1-2 months in advance. The forthcoming sites for the next year are planned at the end of every calendar year. For small buildings we use our teams on the rotation principle. Moreover, our company has many years of experience in monolithic construction. If you want to erect a housing, industrial or service building with a construction and masonry of reinforced concrete, we can be of use to you. All we need is a planning visa. The rest is our concern.
IX. What lifespan the prefabricated houses have?
In Canada, the Scandinavian countries and Western Europe, where this construction system is traditional, there are buildings known to have outlived a century. For this and no other reason the skyscrapers are built with this technology - on a steel skeleton. Of course, the exploitation period of a building, irrespective of the construction system applied, is determined by several conditions:
1. The ability of the materials to retain their quality with time.
In "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. houses metal is the basic constructive material. It is proven that even if it is subject to outside subversive activities, the metal does not change its quality in the course of time.
2. Expertise of the assembly.
To keep the construction from corrosion, we lay special anticorrosive coatings.
3. The normal exploitation and maintenance of the building.
Experience shows that buildings with metal construction are being successfully exploited for more than a hundred years.
X. Where in the country we can build?
The company accepts orders for construction throughout the whole country, as well as in all European countries. The necessary conditions are: the presence of a road, so that the separate elements could be transported and electricity and water, but if some of the last two requirements are not met , this is not a problem because our assembly groups are equipped with the necessary gear to wade through the missing factors needed for the construction process.
XI. Why should I coordinate the project with Water Supply and Electrical Distribution?
Admitting a copy of the project in Electrical Distribution and VIK is necessary to obtain permission to connect to the existing network. The water-supply association will render where the water-conduit and plumbing is, and Electrical Distribution will determine if it is possible for the given power to be taken in the already created transfer network. It is conceivable that the appropriate power will not be sufficient and for a number of reasons you will be asked to construct subsidiary appurtenances. Similarly, we have sites which are already built and are fed with gas, petrol or diesel units with very low consumption, but with them your monthly bill will be much higher than your electricity bill.
XII. Is there a limit of the square surface of the prefabricated houses?
The constructive and architectural parts of the prefabricated houses are carried out according to normative regulations of the Republic of Bulgaria. There is no limit of the square surface regarding "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. `s abilities. There is a restriction with respect to floors - up to 6 floors.
XIII. Is it possible execution in only "partial completeness"?
Yes, it is. The customer chooses whether the finishing works will be done by "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. or not. It is the same for the choice of doors and windows. In case the customer wants to place the frames by him/herself, then the necessary technological openings are made and he/she or another company does the assembly. But it is good to remind that the person completing the assembly bears the responsibility for the elements. In this case we have worked things out in such a way that when we enter into a contract of planning and construction, the client chooses each and every detail of the house, as if you are ordering an automobile. In other words, wall panelling and flooring is chosen for every room, substantiating color, material and so on. You also choose frames, doors, sanitary equipment, lighting fixtures and many others. We would also present to you numerous additional options which are described in detail in http://www.eurohouse.us/opcii.html.
XIV. Who determines what the foundations will be (zero cycle)?
Since this type of construction is suitable for seismic areas or areas with high landslide activity, the normative regulation requires the constructing of a foundation on which the house to be built. This gives the opportunity for a stripe foundation (belts) to be made and a plate of light cement without digging deeply in the ground. Also, if you have a bigger displacement, "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. is the only one in the country to have incorporated in the system steel groundwork, which allows building houses with displacement of the terrain up to 2 (two) meters.
However, if the owner wants to have underground premises (basements, garages, tavern) there should be made geological research for high groundwater, excavation work, ransport of removed earth and building of a foundation, providing for the relevant hydro- and heat-insulation.
XV. What is the time limit for the production of the prefabricated houses?
The time limit for manufacture depends entirely on the house project and the degree of finishing works. Depending on the square surface and the floors of the prefabricated house which you have chosen, the time limit of the construction and assembly works ranges from 20 to 65 days. Naturally, there are longer periods possible in houses with total built-up area of 500 to 800 m?.
XVI. "EUROHOUSE-Bulgaria" Ltd. places at your disposal certificates for the materials used and undertakes the guarantee for all the construction and assembly works, which it executes. The extent of the guarantee period is different for the individual types of work according to article 173, paragraph 4 of the Town Planning Law, and is determined towards the guarantee conditions given by the manufacturing firm of the respective materials invested in the building of the house. The solidity and quality of our construction considerably exceeds the traditional construction and the wooden designs, the actual guarantee of which should not be more than 10 years. What is more, the outside and inside appearance of our constructive work can be executed in any desirable style.
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