Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Yep. That's why the Trabant, almost unchanged and based on the 1958 development level, was produced in the GDR until 1990, while four generations further with the Golf III had already been reached in the FRG... The GDR bought its autarky with 30 years of technical backlog.

And with extreme shortage economy and extremely high prices for everything except basic supplies.

Stop giving the monkey sugar :( That way you'll never get rid of him... More than spinning like a little flag in the wind or posting "alternative facts," he can't do...

Hello everyone, I need an assessment.. We want to have a fence built this year. It's about 62m and we have imagined a "decorative fence" (if you google that, first image hit), 80 cm high. And now I have received an offer from a fence builder that is around €8200 net. Everything that belongs to it is included, so setting posts and removing excavated soil, hanging the fence and a custom-made gate. Do you think this is an acceptable price? Unfortunately, I have no comparison offer, as two other regional fence builders have not gotten back to me..

Would be just under €140 per linear meter. Don’t find that excessively expensive. Pure steel railing (flat) here in BW about €350-400 per linear meter

Just a question about construction costs. I still need to model the terrain in the garden. Various earth mounds into a small embankment at the boundary, dig out the crane area and place it under the terrace, plus a bit more gravel where the carport will go. I have an offer here for 1 day with a 5t excavator, driver, and vibrating plate for just over €1600 gross without gravel. Is that fair?

We paid 700 EUR net per day for excavator and driver and 30/h for 1 construction helper. They then shaped the terrain (processed construction road as a substructure for the entrance and spread some earth). But it was only a mini excavator, I estimate 2t...

Insofar, your price actually seems fair to me, if no construction helper costs are added...