Construction progress: Duplex with WU basement and developed attic

The help you need is unfortunately not available in a forum. Good luck moving forward.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

With species-appropriate animal husbandry, you would live in that house. The meat is a good example from you. It is offered and bought at a price that is actually impossible. Then there is complaining because of relabeling or animal protection being disregarded or because dubious horse meat is mixed in. Once the scandal is over, it starts all over again.

At the moment you only have an expensive ruin. Have you had a lawyer clarify how it is legally? Working with a general contractor contract and actually yet having individual awarding. Who is liable, who is responsible for it? If it depends on you, cancel the contract. Commission directly.

Question: how is the client supposed to know that as a layperson and why should the client be held responsible for miscalculations?

He is not legally obliged to, but in the end it doesn’t help if the general contractor goes bankrupt/insolvent because of miscalculations. And the client is then left with a botched, half-finished house. The client ultimately always bears the damage. And no one has to check the exact calculation, and the client cannot do that as a layperson, but one can and should check for one’s own sake whether the offers are generally within the usual range. That still guarantees nothing, but at least filters out some impossible cases.

At the moment you only have an expensive ruin. Have you had a lawyer clarify the legal situation? Working with a general contractor contract while actually having more of a single contract situation. Who is liable, who is responsible? If it really depends on you, terminate the contract. Commission directly.

At the moment, for orders I have placed, I have him confirm in writing that he agrees: I hereby confirm that I agree to the order for the underfloor heating in the basement for xxxx euros gross by Mrs. ............, that the invoice amount will be deducted from the total contract sum as agreed, and that I have no claims for remuneration for this service.

I still like the construction ruin and it really wasn’t expensive after all ;), as has been explained to me by now.

He is not legally obliged to, but in the end it doesn’t help if the general contractor goes bankrupt/breaks down because he miscalculated. And the client is then left with a botched half-finished house. In the end, the client always bears the damage.
And no one has to check the exact calculation, and the client can’t do that as a layperson anyway, but one can and should check for one’s own sake whether the offers are generally within the usual range. That doesn’t guarantee anything yet, but at least filters out some impossible cases.

Correct.

But if the general contractor (does not intend to) comply with the construction service description and additional contracts with extra costs, then the whole thing is doomed to fail from the outset.

We had the damage as well, despite all precautions. And the price was steep, corresponding to the execution. There were no irregularities.

We had our own construction-accompanying expert commissioned, who checked the calculation, the construction execution, whether the information in the construction service description was even realistic, and who saw at a very early point where the whole thing was heading.

In our case, craftsmen who had been cheated earlier found out where the general contractor is currently building, about 40 km from before; former and currently cheated clients joined forces and also go to the same lawyer.