If you have a good general contractor, you don’t have to worry about anything. Period. Experienced this multiple times in my circle of friends.
However, the general trend is towards cheap construction and hoping everything turns out well combined with experts, which is too expensive for me... savings are made everywhere.
It was probably similar here.
An expert during the construction phase PLUS a site manager are already big additional costs.
But sometimes also necessary. For basement or hillside construction, I would always hire an expert.
My husband works a lot and unfortunately had enormous stress at the company exactly at the start of construction. He himself is a trained technician with a doctorate title – but in a different field. And I am at home with 3 children. I kept going to the excavation repeatedly, I filmed the pouring of the slab. And also the raising of the basement and the house. Everything seemed okay. We also knew the theoretical basics. We dealt with the real estate gardening law for years.
The timing with your husband was really unfortunate. It is very helpful if, as an employed client, you negotiate some flexibility with your boss to possibly check in briefly from time to time.
You were able to get involved well despite having children.
Unfortunately, only dealing with the laws...
Do you have children yourself? Do you have a full-time job? Not everyone is lucky enough to take 2 years off because they are building a house... Normal life goes on anyway!
No, exactly not.
Normal life has a phase where everyone has to participate and must get out of their home routine.
This phase is doable. But there are also people who hide behind their children.
And unfortunately, not everyone can be there – because of 50 hours where or WHERE would our 3 children be if I had been at the construction site 8 hours a day? WHO would have looked after them?
Your second name must be exaggeration!
No one is talking about 8 hours. But measuring everything after work should be a matter of course. You can also take the children with you then.
Yes – our mistake was not measuring and trusting the master builder. Before construction, the land was measured by a sworn civil engineering office.
It is now what it is. Look ahead, was advised here.
That is also my advice.
Make plans for how to proceed, possibly with an independent expert.
I can’t imagine a staircase at 1.30. So no advice from me.
But this is also a good example that despite long planning, garbage comes out.
As a layperson, you unfortunately only take care of one-sided things, because you don’t have an overview of what else needs to be discussed and checked.