Cost savings or how much credit is given when reducing the floor plan size

Hello dear all,

has anyone ever reduced the house dimensions of a standard house from the usual providers?

How much credit did you get per sqm?

Since I don't really like the standard layouts anyway, we would have to pay for additional planning services, that's clear. However, we would have to shorten most of the offered houses by 1-2 m, so reduce them by about 8 to 16 sqm.

Best regards, Clarissa

Mr. , this is your task to present the floor plan reduction cost saving rule (game, set, and match in Scrabble) for the first time. In short: the cost saving is smaller than you think. And reducing a standard floor plan is not trivial either.

Mr. , this is your attempt to present the floor plan downsizing cost savings rule for the first time (game, set, and match in Scrabble).

In short: the cost savings are smaller than you think. And reducing a standard floor plan is not trivial either.

But that wasn’t even my question!
I have already built a house once and it was absolutely no problem to change the floor plan within the framework of the structural engineering. If you shorten a house toward the ridge, it is pretty trivial.
My QUESTION was: WHO has done this before and how many EUROS per sqm did it reduce the standard price?

But that wasn't even my question! I have already built a house once and it was no problem at all within the framework of the statics to change the floor plan. If you shorten a house towards the ridge, it's pretty trivial. But my QUESTION was: WHO has done this before and how many EURO/sqm did it reduce the standard price?

Yes, that was exactly your question EXCLAMATION MARK!!! Calm down first... Shortening a house is trivial, but adjusting a standard floor plan so that it still works is not. As has already written, can certainly answer most competently, so we are linking him here. If you want reasonably good estimates, you have to tell us more about the construction project: How big, how many floors, how expensive is the overall plan, etc. For a 100sqm house, I will have a different saving at 16sqm than for a 1000sqm house.

Shortening in the deadline direction by 0.5m resulted in a credit of approximately €3500

Usually, the general contractor recalculates only if he agrees to do so, since in your example he apparently offers enough standard houses. Credits are often offered when items, that is built-in features, are removed. And every general contractor is different in how they proceed. In our case, we simply removed a planned covered terrace as a cutout, so we had 2 sqm more living space. That didn’t cost anything, since the walls remained the same. The heating loops and screed didn’t care… flooring is anyway provided by the builder…