Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Either I only know the wrong construction companies or you find once again one of your many answers to everything in the forum

When I google craftsman holidays, I find a lot about Baden-Württemberg (although I'm not from there), so maybe it's just more of a regional thing.

So I come from the sales of high-quality machines for construction and agriculture.

Unfortunately, I cannot share the general optimism here. Anyone can try to buy a Bobcat excavator or a crane. In the agricultural sector, orders are sometimes no longer even accepted because nothing can be delivered anymore.

It's no different with the Mercedes G-Class. Exactly!

A German manufacturer buys thousands of washing machines because an important chip needed in vehicles is located on their circuit boards but is not available. Then the chip is removed, the washing machines are scrapped just to be able to deliver vehicles at all. A chip that once cost 2 euros is now being offered for 400 euros.

Therefore, there are only vague statements regarding delivery capabilities. A delivery date in 2024 is certainly the more optimistic variant. That’s the topic of high technology at the export world champion.

Many steel grades were only available from the Mariupol steel plant in Ukraine. The problems arising from that alone are already putting us under great pressure.

But some people here get all riled up. I just spoke with a family who still paid 14 percent mortgage interest rates in 1991. And here people complain when rates don’t go below 1 percent anymore.

How far prices can fall, we know. 100 percent. It can’t go any lower mathematically. Price increases can go to infinity. There is no ceiling upwards.

I have one more small, very interesting example.

In 1960, a cubic meter of spruce wood cost 20 mason hours. In 2022, a cubic meter costs just 120 euros and corresponds roughly to the value of 2 mason hours. Either mason hours are now considerably too expensive, or spruce wood is significantly too cheap despite previous price increases. Everyone can do their own calculations.

Bre was born around 1960. My mother wasn't even born then. You must be crazy. :D :D

In 1960, one cubic meter of spruce wood cost 20 mason hours. In 2022, one cubic meter costs only 120 euros and corresponds to about the equivalent of 2 mason hours. Either mason hours are now significantly too expensive or spruce wood, despite previous price increases, is clearly too cheap. Everyone can calculate for themselves.

Finally, someone who gets it. The material in construction is dirt cheap. So incredibly cheap that it’s not even worth optimizing constructions. The only expensive thing is craftsmen hours. That’s why you have to put in own labor, own labor, own labor, then you can still build a villa today for 1300 euros per square meter.

Only if no working hours of personal effort are sacrificed in one's own job. Because the price increase of labor also affects one's own wages.

Well, of course, you can already pull cables or lines without windows... whether they will stay in permanently is another matter... but trying is famously "wise"... interior plaster without windows is also only half nice...

I assumed that there are temporary solutions for these cases, similar to "construction doors" or "construction stairs". But what you say does make sense; I would consider plastering and filling work still feasible with temporary solutions as a non-expert, but the final wall finishing work rather not.

Sorry, I wasn’t aware that you fall for the propaganda...

As a supporter of "diversity" (based on the laws applicable here), I am interested in different assessments, including minority opinions and also views that I may not share. Based on these, I can always review my own position, which is also "only" based on what I have learned, read, felt, and experienced, and find "blind spots"... yes, and sometimes also learn something new. ;-) But that leads us away from the forum topic again.