Construction costs rough estimate, realistic or not?

Hello,

I didn’t want to start a fundamental discussion about the usefulness of soil surveys, even though I’m interested.

Please don’t listen to the two "fortune hunters" either! In total, €800.00 will certainly not be missed in your investment; even if it were, it would be reckless to forgo the soil survey, because not only the civil engineering works but the entire foundation is based on the results of the survey.

If your BU is as you assess it and as I now also have the impression, he will confirm my recommendation to you

It may be that there is someone who is €20k cheaper, but I would still stick with my GÜ because I trust him and have already planned with him for a long time. If someone is €50k cheaper, then I become suspicious and wonder what he does differently that he is cheaper, is it at the expense of the execution quality? I cannot judge the prices because I am not an expert in this field. Our GÜ only builds within approximately 20km, he has built about 500 houses in his career, and he lives on recommendations from homeowners to each other. The head of the local building authority also told me that he belongs to the "good" ones.

Then carry out the BV project with him and don’t let yourself be unsettled. Besides the numbers, intuition is an important decision-maker; even a partnership for a limited time must be able to handle conflicts. Think of securities; if your BU is the one you believe you have in front of you, it won’t be a "Jehovah issue" for him.

There will always be a provider who performs the services cheaper; but in the end, from my experience, the costs for a house "X" generally end up about the same. Of course, you can adjust the key data such as wall thickness or insulation – equipment is rather marginal and can be reduced or increased independently of the provider – whether it is effective (was) only becomes apparent during the course of "living" in the single-family house built this way; certainly later when selling the property. The Energy Saving Ordinance 2014 and its successors already wave goodbye. The Rhinelanders are a travel-loving people

Good luck!

Hello,

.. there are simply people who spend a lot of money on trivial things ... so what ... it stimulates the economy ...

You are "dancing" at too many weddings for me; I cannot take you seriously and hope the rest of the users reading here share my impression.

Rhenish greetings

Hello,

If a basement was built on the adjacent property and there were no problems, I would forgo a soil survey.

It is good that you write from your perspective; everything else can have fatal consequences for naive homebuyers. Building without a soil survey is not only stupid but also expensive if it turns out that there are surprises hidden in the ground. No one then takes responsibility for the inevitably resulting shoddy workmanship!

I have already experienced with DH plots that one property was unburdened while the other concealed quite tricky surprises in the soil. Moreover, anyone who invests several thousand euros to realize their dream of homeownership should consider €800.00 well worth the secure foundation of their single-family home!

Rhenish greetings

Building without a soil survey is not only stupid

... as already written ... there are people who see the devil before you can smell him ...

if it turns out

.... yes >> if ... there could also be an unexploded bomb in the ground .. lol

There are supposedly companies that don't even start building without a soil survey. For ours, that's the case, and it makes me feel more secure. If I had listened to my neighbors, I might be the fool now. They built in the 60s, and back then no one did a soil survey. They said it wasn't necessary. Our soil survey said something different anyway... 50 cm of soil replacement, since it wasn't load-bearing there. And by now I've seen all the neighboring houses from the inside... They have had massive settlements in the last 40 years. Maybe it's not an issue with a brick building, but a timber frame might react a bit more sensitively. We are glad to have done everything that was recommended to us. That way, we never have standing water around the house and don't have to worry.

You are "dancing" at too many weddings for me; I cannot take you seriously and hope the rest of the users reading here share my impression

... one can excellently argue about the sense or nonsense of a basement and the waste of expensive money underground ...