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2023-05-22 16:56:06
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I have now received an offer from an architect for the planning of a single-family house (approx. 200 sqm) and wanted to hear your experiences and opinions about the offer.
Offered are service phases 1-4 - €4,000 + VAT.
Drainage planning - €600 + VAT.
Statics without deep foundation - €1,800 + VAT.
Total = €7,616 including VAT.
Is the offer okay and should I consider anything else?
I think you should look for another architect, even if it may be tempting that this one also offers the structural engineer service and the total price is cheap. However, I unfortunately expect that an architect working for apprentice wages will not put much love into the planning, and as a result, among other things, actually 200 sqm will be used to meet a demand of 160...170 sqm. Moreover, you can "recognize" from discount offers with the service scope of phases 1 to 4 exactly the kind of architects that rightly warns about so passionately: too lazy for detailed planning, incompetent in budget adherence. So a rubber stamper of the "after me the flood" kind. Such offers are regularly regretted three to thirteenfold: costs that run out of control already due to size, unplanned detailed connections with great potential for disputes and extra hours...
But we know too little about your building project. If this has already been discussed elsewhere, please link (but of course only within the forum) or please carefully fill out the form for prospective builders.
The discussion of the OP has so far been quite one-sided; the "one-and-a-half-story city villa" is supposed to be built on an 875 sqm plot .