Construction Costs Shell/Turnkey Comparison

We are also currently in the process of planning our single-family house as a self-managed project. I am following your progress with great interest.

We are currently in the process of planning our single-family house as a self-managed project.

What expectations do you have going down this path? I haven't seen anything here about your project yet, 1. what could be so brilliantly planned about it that a discussion of the design here wouldn't help further, and 2. why you are more skilled purchasers than leaving it to professionals. Or is it based on the attitude "we are related to the building material dealer ourselves, and architects are just overpriced floor plan painters"? I have four decades of experience with self-planning a home, but if I wanted to build my own house, I would go to a colleague (and/or have the design grilled by the community). Simply because a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.

Read along here... what savings are you expecting compared to turnkey contracting?

Well, I have the case in my circle of acquaintances... an architect in the family and the shell builder (foundation slab, masonry), with whom one got along well, arranged the contacts with the other tradesmen. The process was quite smooth and the house has now been standing for several years without any problems.

Of course, this is rather the exception, but why shouldn't it exist? Even with 500 years of experience in the construction sector, you don't know everything and not every scenario means certain doom from the start.

You only ever hear about the cases where it crashes spectacularly, not those where it works.

It's the same for me in service. I only see the plants that don't work and not the 98% where everything has been running smoothly for years.