Modern basement apartment with large conservatory, first occupancy after energy-efficient refurbishment to A+ house

This solid house, built in 1966 and extended in 2014-2017 with an attic conversion, was purchased by us at the end of 2021 and has since been completely renovated and converted to make it more energy efficient. The interior work should finally be completed around March 2025. We originally wanted to move in ourselves, but ended up in another city for work reasons.

The house is now divided into three self-contained apartments, one on each floor, and all three are due to be rented out for the first time in spring 2025 after the renovation.

The lower, southern garden facing the street will be assigned to the basement, which can also be accessed directly from the conservatory via the terrace. The upper, northern garden facing the forest strip / hospital grounds will be allocated to the ground floor. If you want to let off steam here or create a vegetable, herb or flower garden, you have all the freedom you need.

The 3.10 m high double garage under the ground floor terrace with driveway is assigned to the ground floor apartment, but it is also possible for the other apartments to park on the street in front of the house without any problems.

The refurbishment was carried out very elaborately, carefully and to the highest quality standards with an architect from Sigmaringen and tradesmen from Sigmaringen and the immediate vicinity. The improvements include:
- Complete external insulation with temporary removal of the soil on the slope side, so that thick insulation could be applied on all sides down to the floor slab.
- The small north-facing window openings for light wells in the basement were more than doubled in height for brighter rooms on the slope side
- New roof with new over-rafter insulation
- Demolition of balcony (would be thermal bridge), addition of new conservatories for basement and ground floor
- New flowing screed for basement and ground floor with
- New underfloor heating for basement and ground floor in all rooms
- All rooms in the basement and ground floor are now tiled to a high standard (60x60 cm)
- Completely new high-quality bathrooms in the basement and ground floor with floor-level, tiled showers
- Completely new, high-quality kitchens in the basement and ground floor with induction hobs and extractor fan in the hob
- Completely new triple-glazed windows, with the exception of the previously installed, remote-controlled Velux skylights on the top floor
- New pipes for drinking water and sanitary facilities, heating and waste water (incl. demolition and new concreting of the floor slab, as the old waste water pipe underneath was clogged)
- Completely new electrics in the basement and ground floor and partly in the attic with network cabling in many rooms
- Removal of gas condensing boiler, installation of highly efficient and quiet new Viessmann heat pump, which generates 3.5 to 4.0 kWh of heat for heating and hot water with 1 kWh of electricity
- Photovoltaic system, which again significantly reduces the running costs for heating and hot water
- Installation of new, insulated front door
- Installation of new doorbell and letterbox system as well as exterior lighting with motion detectors for the entrance area
- New terrace with high-quality porcelain stoneware tiles (60x60 cm) for the basement and ground floor
- New railing and planned partial roofing for ground floor terrace
- Complete redesign of the outdoor area at the front (south-facing) and rear (north-facing) with new privacy hedge towards the street, creation of new paths and steps in both gardens, planned for spring to early summer 2025

Of course, the photos shown do not yet reflect the final status at the time of handover, once all the interior work has been completed. Currently, the wallpaper and paintwork in the basement are almost finished, but the tiles are still missing. On the ground floor, the tiles are almost completely laid, but wallpaper and paintwork are still to come. The bathrooms and kitchens are still being installed in the basement and ground floor.

The location on a south-eastern slope in an extremely quiet, pleasant residential area with views over the eastern part of Sigmaringen below and, in fine weather, across Lake Constance to the Alps is made even more attractive by the fact that the Hohenneuffenstrasse and Am Dettingerberg bus stops on line 3 and the Kreiskrankenhaus bus stop on line 2 are only 300 m away. Most of the traffic on Hohenneuffenstrasse in this quiet corner, which at first seems like a dead end, is actually just the bus, which passes by every 30 minutes.

Extremely practical, and a decisive factor in our purchase, was the unsurpassed proximity to the Sigmaringen district hospital, which can be reached on foot through the garden behind the house and a small path through the forest strip in 250 meters. However, as the main entrance and the access roads are on the other side of the hospital, you don't notice any traffic or patient activity in this house.

The apartments are therefore not only ideal for hospital employees, but also for employees of the Bertha Benz School, Fidelis School, Geschwister-Scholl School or the Hohenzollern Grammar School, which can often be reached more quickly on foot than by car, thanks to the small path behind the building that leads westwards and downhill through the small wooded area. The Sigmaringen District Office and the Ludwig Erhard School are also within easy walking distance of 1.5 km and 20 minutes.

On the other hand, kindergartens and playgrounds are just a few hundred meters to the south and east.