Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Who uses 7500kwh per year? That’s insane...

For non-new buildings, it’s okay. How much energy do you use?

Who uses 7500kwh per year? That's madness... btw... after how many warnings does one have to at least leave with this nick?

Why should that be madness? 4 people or more. No KFW 55 or such nonsense Heat pump plus some technology Larger than 150sqm heated area That's quickly together (and more)

Hello everyone, I have been reading here for a while and wanted to share my own experiences.

We are currently planning the construction of a single-family house in the Eifel, the contract was signed at the end of 2021 with a rather smaller general contractor. The handover date is targeted for mid-2023. The house price without additional features is linked to the construction price index, capped at a 10% price increase. With the elimination of the KfW subsidy, our contract also became invalid (keyword "resolutive condition") and our house builder announced a moderate adjustment of the contractual clause regarding the price cap.
The proposal was: we pay the 10% price increase as planned, the next 3% is covered by the house builder, anything beyond that is split 50/50. We accepted this after some consideration, with the condition that the index from Q1 2023 serves as the final benchmark for the house price, so that we will have peace from further increases afterwards. Currently, the index has increased by 14.3% since the contract signing. However, the last increase from quarter 2 to 3 was rather moderate, we hope it won't rise much more in the remaining 2 quarters.

We are partially awarding the trades for the interior work ourselves to local companies that we know and have a contact person on site.
The geothermal heat pump has become about €1100 more expensive from the first offer in April this year to the current offer this month, with everything included €1500 more than the first offer, with the same model. Delivery time is now one year, quite unpleasant. Despite my urging, unfortunately we did not receive any information from the house builder for the heat load calculation beforehand, so that we could have ordered the heat pump earlier: "You still have time until the house arrives..."

Otherwise, we only hear about price increases and delivery difficulties for everything we inquire about (kitchen, bathroom, electrical, etc.), which is why we are ordering most things now.

I will also present the entire project in the next few days.

Who uses up 7500kWh per year? That's crazy...

It's done quite quickly. We (4 people) have consumed about 10,000kWh per year in recent years. Without a heat pump and electric car, but with a lot of gadgets (air conditioning, controlled residential ventilation, pool, saltwater aquarium, server, etc.) I have now replaced some old technology, so it will probably be 2000kWh less. That's how it is. :cool:

I am always amazed by the crazy power consumption in the home office. And as always, when something seems strange... we start calculating: My ZBook G7 consumes around 150 watts at full throttle (the power supply doesn't provide more), with the screen, etc. 250 watts. We generously calculate that for 10 hours/day and, assuming 220 working days, come to a staggering 550 kWh. IF we assume that my laptop is running at full power for 10 hours a day... it of course is not... no computer runs at full load for 10 hours a day, especially not an office laptop that only handles Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook... So please stop using the home office as a fig leaf for absurdly high consumption...

.. but then you forget that a proper desk lamp (I have a daylight lamp), a second monitor or a second device, the router is under load, a possible printer, etc. also belong to the home office. Then you are usually there, the coffee machine is running, you might also have a second light on, etc. All things that are not running when you are at the company.