Costs for our house construction

Kati, the costs for earthworks always occur, unless it is explicitly stated that they are included, which is very rare because technically it is practically impossible. The builder does not know in advance what soil conditions he will face. Also, you will rarely get by with the usual 15 cm frost protection layer included in the price. We actually have rather good, dry soil but still need up to 60 cm frost protection. And as already mentioned, a lot of money goes on during the selection process, even if you are determined to only take the included standard. We actually have relatively high-quality goods in the standard program of our builder (e.g. tiles up to 30 EUR / sqm), but still there is a whole list of surcharges.

Hello home builders,

yes, unfortunately I think you can always expect that quite a bit will be added on. I want to be able to estimate it as accurately as possible so that the costs don’t overwhelm me afterwards. When you hear from other people who are building and say that their project ended up being up to 100,000 euros more expensive..... I want to spare myself that. But I think they also didn’t inform themselves properly beforehand. Of course, we could also take more from the bank, but you also want to maintain a certain standard of living (travel, car, etc.), so the money should not just be spent on the house. Therefore, we set ourselves a limit... but unfortunately I realize that this limit has already been exceeded. Well, now we have to see....

Regards Kati

By the way, we want to build in Datteln/Horneburg. The plot is already reserved (500m2). Of course, we should still buy before 1.10.2011...let's see if that works out. Where do you work? And for which company?