goalkeeper
2019-04-25 11:41:36
- #1
I think it's good to also commission the painting work with the general contractor. That provides planning security since it's included in the construction time guarantee and the fixed price. Q2 & textured wallpaper are actually no longer very popular. I would have everything plastered/scraped in Q3 like on the ground floor and painted directly. If a special texture is desired, then with fiber fleece as far as I'm concerned. The price seems reasonable. Painting work for a single-family house under €10,000 seems fair to me. Regarding the flooring, the material price doesn't help much, since you only select the samples afterwards and then the additional costs come. We have now found out that our general contractor offers the same prices as craftsmen on the free market for floor coverings/tiles. So we could have included everything from the start instead of running around now looking for craftsmen who are hardly cheaper.
We find Q3 and painter's fleece totally unnecessary for the children's rooms, since they probably won't benefit much from that. Maybe we'll ask for a price for the whole house. However, the extra cost is not in any relation to the benefit. It's purely an aesthetic matter.
We also believe that at that price, you don't have to worry or think about it at all if the prices are in that range for painters and floors. Another general contractor quoted over €25,000 for both – in that case, it makes more sense to perhaps look around.
On the other hand, ideally we want everything from a single source so that we can move in promptly next year and not have to wait weeks to move in just because one trade is missing.