Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

- Create incentives to make these professions more attractive. - Promote educational programs - Promote career changers - Reduce causes of typical occupational diseases - Work more with the umbrella organizations of craftsmen - Simplify recognition of foreign professional qualifications - Because financing construction projects has become much more difficult.

Yes, more difficult, but not impossible. Many still build anyway, then just limit themselves, build smaller, do more themselves. Our general contractor said recently, it’s still going on. And there is a lot of renovation. How is the state supposed to create incentives to make professions attractive? Then we move away from the market economy. I could still imagine career changers and educational programs. But there also have to be people interested in that. And if many training positions have remained unfilled in recent years, apparently there aren’t any.

For example, better marketing of job profiles. Practical days specific to certain professions (based on Girls/Boys-Day), industry-specific (higher) minimum wages, better [Bafög] conditions

We are 34 and 36, and even for us the prospect of 2-3 months living amidst construction mess is really a challenge. So aside from the fact that despite intense searching we can’t find any craftsmen :cool:. For my grandma it was already a nerve-wracking balancing act when she knew the painter was coming. She was nervous two weeks in advance.

You get used to the dirt eventually ;-) 2-3 months is almost nothing :-) Fingers crossed with finding craftsmen! Most of ours then went through the architect... otherwise we’d probably still be searching. :rolleyes:

You get used to the mess eventually ;-) 2-3 months is practically nothing :) I'm keeping my fingers crossed for your search for craftsmen! With us, most of it went through the architect... otherwise we would probably still be searching. :rolleyes:

We have been building for 5 years. But here we are talking about tearing up the entire ground floor from floor to ceiling. New screed, etc. A huge project in an inhabited state with children and animals. That is certainly not something you get used to^^.

We have been building for 5 years. But we are talking here about tearing up the entire ground floor from floor to ceiling. New screed, etc. A huge project in an occupied state with children and animals. That's definitely not something you get used to^^.

That's exactly how we have it right now ;-) admittedly without children and animals. But hardly any room is left intact. Apart from the architect or general contractor: we tried to consolidate the trades as much as possible to become more attractive to the individual companies. So the roof was immediately combined with an extension in timber frame construction. The heating engineer is doing everything including photovoltaics. But we also spent ages on the phone for the latter, that was not handled through the architect.

For two people, it wouldn't be an issue. But with children and animals, it's a different league. Especially since we have to move out temporarily because you won't be able to get to the upstairs anymore. But as I said, we will probably have to do it mostly ourselves as usual, then we'll do it with dry screed = it will always be walkable and then we'll do it room by room. You just have to convince yourself that it also has its advantages....