Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

The fact that the employed craftsman does not earn a fortune despite the lack of demand is not really a new insight. Parallels in the care professions certainly exist. As an average tiler, you have to work about 3 hours to afford about one hour of tile laying.

But that’s how it is everywhere. When I look at the price at which a day of project work is offered here, I couldn’t afford my own time for long either. It’s clear. First, one sixth of the end customer price goes to VAT. Then you subtract the fixed costs of a company: office, workshop, warehouse, vehicles, special tools, marketing and sales. Travel and loading times, because neither the craftsman nor his materials and tools are beamed to the construction site. Then you subtract 6 weeks of paid vacation, 2-3 weeks of holidays and a few sick days. And then the ancillary wage costs. And on the employee side, taxes and social security contributions. I don’t find a ratio of 1:3 that bad at all.

The fact that one's own taste is taken as a reference again is by now already ridiculous. If someone is happy with Ikea furniture, so be it... just as equally if someone wants a thuja or cherry laurel hedge around their city villa.

Clean, you half got my point about the criticism of ceiling spots.

Exactly that! Sure, there is free pricing. But if you see in the gasoline price app that the liter of premium is currently 1.70, start driving - and then realize that the 45-minute time window is over and now 1.80 must be paid... That should at least not be possible in a social market economy.

Now all that is missing is that the price at the gas station must remain unchanged from Monday 8 a.m. for 7 days. The hourly game of change to rip off customers is getting worse and worse

According to the traffic light coalition, all price increases for electricity and gas in 2023 are to be prohibited, making increase letters as of 1.1.23 invalid. Now the lead time of our government has shrunk to under 4 weeks :oops:

It is only about a reversal of the burden of proof for increases; by no means are the increases as of 1.1.23 invalid. The cartel office is supposed to check this, which has already spectacularly failed with the gasoline producers. I wouldn’t bet a penny on it…

It is merely about a reversal of the burden of proof for increases; by no means are the increases as of 1/1/23 invalid. The cartel office is supposed to examine this, which has already failed spectacularly with the gasoline producers. I wouldn’t bet a penny on it…

First of all, the price increase has to be unjustified in the first place. And I have my doubts about that when you look at the conditions under which the suppliers were able to purchase at the beginning of 2022 and under which conditions they have to buy now...

Large customers who buy on the futures market have received increases of up to 10 times... so it does not seem unrealistic at all that the suppliers raise their prices by 70%. I am curious in how many cases, with an increase to, for example, 48 cents/kWh electricity as of 1/1/2023, it will actually be proven that it was unjustified. Someone with money will surely take the legal route, there are always lawyers or teachers with boredom.

I find it very telling again that this is being criticized once more. A few pages earlier, it was written that it’s all a rip-off and that the suppliers are pocketing the money and making a killing. Now the government has taken action AGAINST it BEFOREHAND, and that’s not right either. I don’t want to lump everyone together here, but maybe people should reconsider their fundamental attitude towards life and their expectations of their environment. Complaining won’t make things any better.

By the way, I received a response from KFW Bank yesterday. I had inquired about how the interest rate increased from 1.4 to 3.54%. Blah blah... euribor 1.8, risk premium 0.7, and administration costs 1%. Now I’m wondering... what was the euribor in April, at -0, something? Or did they increase the administration surcharge?