elVincent
2017-02-20 14:56:01
- #1
Back to the actual topic: We are currently building and in the final stages. The trades were individually contracted and supervised. My impression is that it is very crucial to establish a certain connection with the people responsible in the contracted companies. This is how we ended up with relatively small and partly already known companies, where you rather have the feeling that one person stands as a representative for the result and works better out of this personal responsibility.
Of course, we also spent a lot of time on site and were always available for questions or uncertainties. In addition, I spent an extremely long time researching in order to understand and question everything myself as much as possible. At the moment, I am still convinced that everything delivered was really well to very well done.
As far as costs are concerned, I think you have somewhat more control, but in the end it does not get significantly cheaper. After all, you want the best of everything, question the scope and services of the individual trades even more, and then arrive at a good compromise of price and performance. In turnkey construction, you rarely get the best solutions but the best compromise between effort and yield, although from the perspective of the companies involved in the construction.
My conclusion would therefore be that self-contracting works, but requires a lot of time, is rather not cheaper in the end, but overall the result is of higher quality.
Of course, we also spent a lot of time on site and were always available for questions or uncertainties. In addition, I spent an extremely long time researching in order to understand and question everything myself as much as possible. At the moment, I am still convinced that everything delivered was really well to very well done.
As far as costs are concerned, I think you have somewhat more control, but in the end it does not get significantly cheaper. After all, you want the best of everything, question the scope and services of the individual trades even more, and then arrive at a good compromise of price and performance. In turnkey construction, you rarely get the best solutions but the best compromise between effort and yield, although from the perspective of the companies involved in the construction.
My conclusion would therefore be that self-contracting works, but requires a lot of time, is rather not cheaper in the end, but overall the result is of higher quality.