Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I am really fed up with the topic. I don’t know how many companies I have contacted since September. But 99% never picked up the phone or responded. It is incredibly frustrating. But I simply can’t install a solar thermal system myself. Nor a heat pump with photovoltaics. We are praying that our gas heating system just doesn’t break down in the next few years, I wouldn’t even know what we should do. You can’t get a stove builder, you can’t get a heating engineer.

So at least here it is mentioned most often. I don't know any official statistics on that.

Have you ever dealt with it? The deductions are brutal. And then surely the topic of "but I want to leave something to my children" also plays a role...

No, I haven't. I've just read about it often. I also don't know any statistics, but I don't think this forum is representative.

The forum is definitely not representative. I would claim that there are disproportionately many high earners here (also in relation to home builders in general). So if money is already the topic here, imagine how it is in the overall population (yeah yeah, those are each the parental homes, but that correlates, right)? And even if it were only 30%. It would still be an important step and it would be so easy to implement. A hammer doesn't fit every job, but that's no reason not to start driving the nails in!

: My condolences!

- 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: