ChrisEF
2017-08-04 15:20:46
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Hello everyone,
I hope you can give me some advice on my topic.
We bought a plot of land at the end of last year and want to build our single-family house with a construction company.
A friend (an architect by profession) had "just for fun" already planned our dream house with us beforehand. We took the floor plans to the construction company and said that we would like the house built like that. The floor plans were adopted by the architect of the construction company and slightly adjusted.
In the meantime, an offer was made, the financing was approved, and the land charge was registered. So everything went according to plan.
Next was the creation of the building application. Suddenly, our construction company noticed that the house does not comply with the development plan and that instead of 1.5 stories, we must now build 2 stories. After we came to terms with this, we sat down with the architect from the construction company and redesigned our entire house.
It was therefore necessary to redesign the upper floor as a full floor, meaning going from a 1.25m knee wall to 2.75m. We already suspected that additional costs would arise, but in order not to have to adjust the financing and the land charge again, we removed the expanded balcony, the roof windows, the chimney, and the cellar entrance door (total value approx. 15,000 euros) and reduced the house by a total of 5m².
Still, the house now costs nearly 7,000 euros more than before.
We are currently wondering whether the price (nearly 22,000 euros) is justified or whether they are trying to make additional profit afterwards because the contract has already been signed.
On the other hand, we wonder whether the construction company must bear the extra costs themselves to comply with the development plan, since planning according to the development plan was not our responsibility but theirs...
We have also considered withdrawing from the contract, but for now, we want to try to resolve it in a peaceful manner.
I would appreciate helpful answers.
I hope you can give me some advice on my topic.
We bought a plot of land at the end of last year and want to build our single-family house with a construction company.
A friend (an architect by profession) had "just for fun" already planned our dream house with us beforehand. We took the floor plans to the construction company and said that we would like the house built like that. The floor plans were adopted by the architect of the construction company and slightly adjusted.
In the meantime, an offer was made, the financing was approved, and the land charge was registered. So everything went according to plan.
Next was the creation of the building application. Suddenly, our construction company noticed that the house does not comply with the development plan and that instead of 1.5 stories, we must now build 2 stories. After we came to terms with this, we sat down with the architect from the construction company and redesigned our entire house.
It was therefore necessary to redesign the upper floor as a full floor, meaning going from a 1.25m knee wall to 2.75m. We already suspected that additional costs would arise, but in order not to have to adjust the financing and the land charge again, we removed the expanded balcony, the roof windows, the chimney, and the cellar entrance door (total value approx. 15,000 euros) and reduced the house by a total of 5m².
Still, the house now costs nearly 7,000 euros more than before.
We are currently wondering whether the price (nearly 22,000 euros) is justified or whether they are trying to make additional profit afterwards because the contract has already been signed.
On the other hand, we wonder whether the construction company must bear the extra costs themselves to comply with the development plan, since planning according to the development plan was not our responsibility but theirs...
We have also considered withdrawing from the contract, but for now, we want to try to resolve it in a peaceful manner.
I would appreciate helpful answers.