BUILDING A HOUSE in SOUTHERN EUROPE - FRANCE (Start to Finish)
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Did you ever wonder how they do construction in other parts of the world? In today's video, we are diving into French construction techniques and showing you the full process of a recently built home in southern France. Join us and learn a little bit about how they do things in FRANCE!
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Having watched the video I can see why they need such a big structural foundation with all that concrete that is a very heavy house and an interesting watch from another country's building methods.
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
A solidly built house. Warm in winter and cool in summer, lovely ♥♥
You and all your family did a lovely job❤👍👍👍😎😎😎🙂🙂
Very cool building techniques, great video…enjoy your time in France with family !
Very well documented !
Thank you for taking us on your adventures. ❤😊
Many thanks for sharing that. Nice to she how the other half live😎
Hello, je sentais en vous que vous avez l'âme Française c'est super sympa
Amazing job!
thank you so much!!
Interesting, there are a few differences from how we do it in Poland. For example, except of cases where you have a basement (much more rare these days than it used to be, probably due to high cost of insulation etc.) the ground floor won't be "floating" but rather be poured over compacted sand inside the foundations. Sometimes instead of deep peripheral foundation you have a thick heavily rebared concrete slab as a foundation. Last year we were adding a large staircase of sorts to our house and we first poured 5cm layer of concrete to level the ground and protect the water insulation from rodents, then put water insulating barier on that (bitumen) and the main course - 25cm thick concrete slab, so 30cm of concrete in total.
South of France is quite warm of course but here it is mandatory to insulate the foundations and floor, not just the walls and the roof. The more fancy way if you have a slab foundation is to put the insulating layer (usually a form of hard styrofoam like XPS) first and then pour the foundation over that. But regardless of the traditional foundation or the slab one you will have a thick (15-20cm) insulating layer below the concrete or anhydrite floor. These days it is very popular to put floor heating in that final layer of anhydrite or concrete.
There are a few different ways to build the floor of second level but they all involve concrete, just in different amounts ;-) And there will be also a thinner layer of insulation (~5-10cm).
Similar ceramic material for the walls is also popular here, commonly referred to as "porotherm". Other popular options are foamed concrete blocks (autoclaved very light and warm concrete) and silicate blocks.
I was mostly surprised with the way those windows were installed. We do have similar technique here too with those metal L-shaped brackets BUT it will always be on the outside, not on the inside. This is a more fancy/costly variant called "in the insulation layer montage". It is better from heat insulation perspective but more common way is to put windows in line with the outside wall and when doing the wall insulation (also always outside) overlap it slightly on the window frame by about 2cm. Styrofoam is the most popular option for the insulation but wool is also in use.
Otherwise it's very similar to what we do over here :-)
Thanks for all the info!!
Wow very solid house!
Très beau travail cela vous change de votre maison avec contenairs
Building process similar to the one we use in Brazil, however, here we do not cover the interior with drywall. 🇧🇷

What an interesting video. The house is so well built.
That was fun to watch.Hi from Colorado Springs 😀
Thanks for sharing, that was really interesting to see!
Nice to see they built them so solidly vs seismic activity in region... how bif are the quakes usually and frequency ? Who is serving your emperor Peanut in your stead while you're off in France ?
Thats basically the way we build our houses in Europe not only in France. Hello from Germany 🙂
As we are talking about house building! Why are you guys overseas using mostly wood to build houses? I mean you guys have a lot of tornadoes and stuff and I’m just wondering why you don’t build more solid houses?
Low cost, low quality home building is the rule in US with high heating and cooling as well as high maintenance cost being pushed on to the home owner. This is largely due to ignorance and the notion that housing regardless of quality will go up in value. The energy shocks of the early 1970s and the financial crisis of 2007-08 where values dropped were regarded as anomalous. There are many examples of quality buildings in this country. They are custom built by homeowners who value comfort and resilience over market value or by a developer who is willing to make significantly less profit for their efforts. Building codes make the typical house safe to inhabit and do address some of the future costs of heating and cooling of new construction but are not retroactive. American housing stock is mostly deplorable.
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Wow, a very beefy house. I can see why they need to install a strong foundation. This house would stand up to a major hurricane that we experience along the gulf coast in the US. Beautiful design, I'm really intrigued by the bio blocks used on exterior walls. Do you know what it's R value? Also, it was funny seeing a Lafarge concrete truck. Either a coincidence or they are located in other places around the world. We have a Lafarge concrete plant here in southern Louisiana.
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They have a 400 year code, not a 40 year code. These homes are built to serve many generations, not just one.
In Europe they have ground floor, first floor, etc, unlike in the US where it’s first, second floor, etc.
Is it Less or more expensive than the way we build here in us😢😮
It depends on how you look at it. In any case, the houses in Europe all live at least 100 years. Stone houses that are 800 years old and still inhabited are mainly found in Germany, but also where I live in the Netherlands. Price comparison is difficult - wood prices in Europe are very expensive - but in terms of lifespan I think the European construction method wins.
In the south of Europe there are also a lot of forest fires in the summer ; stone , brick and concrete walls have better fire resistance .
It costs more money and time to build but you keep your house longer than North America .
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