Maybe I also expressed myself poorly. I’m building in NRW. As far as I know, steel prices have fallen extremely sharply in the last weeks and months because warehouses are full and demand is lower. Of course, I have to include the margin of a structural shell contractor and he should also be allowed to make a profit and factor in a safety margin. But a 50% mark-up and more for a simple reinforcement is something I can’t understand.Wow. That's intense... My estimate concerns NRW - the more dealers you have in between, the more it naturally becomes. Factory + building materials dealer = end customer (basis for my price of 1,600) is naturally a different price than factory + building materials dealer + construction contractor (+ possibly subcontractor) = end customer. Sorry if I gave you the wrong direction there.... Currently, everyone still wants to line their pockets as much as possible and if everyone goes along, these are also the "cartel structures" that we currently have in so many areas.
Should we be ashamed for having made something of ourselves? I grew up in the housing project. Nobody needs to tell me what it looks like further down there. And I’m certainly not ashamed of what I have achieved. And I had cancer at 32. Quite a funny thing as a mother of two children. But what do I know. I’m not allowed to "whine." No, thank you. I wish to take a flight once. I don’t think anyone has a right to that. But one is allowed to wish for it, I suppose. And I won’t say more on the subject.
We live in a very small 100-year-old house that we mostly renovated ourselves. Think before you accuse. Not everyone here lives in a 180m2 new build :p.
I did not write that. You are accusing me of that. I do not presume to judge your life story; I merely informed you that whining about a short-notice canceled flight is inappropriate when the majority of society has completely different concerns.
And is everyone intellectually capable of this? Or do the parents support it accordingly (the parents decide the type of secondary school)? There are a thousand reasons why this is not given to everyone.Of course, one can also feel bad oneself if a vacation with the children in the south is no longer possible or if one might have to forgo it oneself. Sure, there are always others who have it worse, but that is really no benchmark. Unlike you, I have no sympathy here for those who cannot afford a house. Because everyone here can get an education free of charge in Germany and attend schools/vocational schools/universities that train you for a good job. Whoever does not want to or is not diligent enough, also does not have the right to necessarily live in a house.
Try searching for disposable pallets on classifieds. Sometimes they are even given away for free.Where do you get the wood from? From the forester? And how did you find out about it? It’s not in the newspaper or anything.. Does anyone have tips on where to generally get wood (of any kind) cheaply??