Building a house during parental leave - or when is the optimal moment?

I can easily set aside an additional 1,000 EUR on top of the rent at the moment. My girlfriend can certainly also save 500 EUR.

Just wait until the first 1-2 children arrive

and I also think a few more months wouldn’t have such a negative impact on the income

First, you should clarify whether this would be okay with your employer at all... just taking a few months of unpaid leave is probably not something everyone agrees to...

The work that you could probably do yourself (laying floors, painting, etc.) you could probably do most of during your 2 months of parental leave + 1 month of paid vacation...

I don’t think you’re just allowed to help out with laying stone on stone like that. That only slows down the trained bricklayers rather than helping. If anything, do it all alone -> the contractor will have a problem with his deadlines.

Parental leave is actually intended for intensive care of the child. Believe me, you will want to spend as much time as possible with your family anyway and therefore simply will have no time and no headspace to acquire any tasks, even simple ones, to save a few € - there is no potential for saving more anyway. At least not the way you imagine it. Use the free time for yourself and your family.

The people you will have on the construction site are a well-coordinated team, I don't think you can really help much there (just like me!). I also plan to take parental leave at the time of the final construction/move-in of our place (in two years) to take care of the outdoor facilities (driveway, carport, terrace, greenery) intensively. I don't need any instructions or any help for that, I can do almost everything by myself - and I'm eager to finally use my Bosch Professional 36v cordless screwdriver (after it has been in the closet for a year). That's a small difference: I really enjoy it and look forward to it - I will not see it as a burden.

I am currently on parental leave, and I can tell you that you will use every free minute to get done what you can't manage when the child wants to be entertained. On Thursday our house will be put up, and I think I won't even have enough time and especially the desire to watch all day. People tend to underestimate the energy a child demands when it is not exceptionally easy. But after three weeks without really sleeping a long night, you won't go to the construction site anymore.

Hello,

Building a house means tackling 16 trades

Which ones are they?
What proportion of the building do they account for? And can this be separated into labor and material?

(of course, just very roughly / statistically)

Sorry to bother you with this topic

Which ones are those? What proportion of the building do they have? And can one separate that by labor and material?

(of course only very roughly / statistically)

Sorry to bother the topic

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