One thing I still have to mention here, I am handy and can and have done quite a bit (fence, terrace, floors in the rooms, one buddy is a painter, the other lays tiles)
That’s already great and doing it together with friends makes it even more fun. If you can actually do the tiling yourself, that’s a considerable saving and you might also be able to realize special things. Often it’s enough just to know someone like that in the background and be able to contact them.
But I am also very busy professionally and time for the family should also be there.
Work has to be done, because it pays for your house. Family will certainly often have to take a back seat, but working together with your wife makes sense and is fun; we always did it that way while our consistently young neighbors asked us why we didn’t have it done.
Those who are not willing to do that should, in my opinion, keep their hands off building a house or have a correspondingly large budget. We already had a child during the first build. It was not possible otherwise because we wanted the house; that was part of the price.
incl. photovoltaic with storage
What I just happened to have read: Storage is nice but financially not advisable, so better leave it out or do it later.
Finding the "right" construction company is not easy. I don’t know Town & Country personally but I believe they build just as good houses as others do. They use the same materials, have good or less good employees, like other companies as well. The problem lies in the fittings and whether you will be satisfied with them. Beyond a certain upgrade level, it probably doesn’t make sense with them anymore. Ultimately, you have to check the respective construction performance description, that’s your bible, carefully.
So far, you calculate with around €3000 per sqm plus additional costs and from that you can roughly estimate whether it financially fits you.
But I calculate very conservatively in the sense that having is better than needing, although how conservative is right to not plan the house too tight
Very good!
I would simply like to concretely know what the ancillary building costs really are, this item causes us to come to a new possible house price every day.
Who could have told you that so far? Until now, for example, the cellar was still planned obviously too generously too big; about ancillary costs I have read quite a lot in this thread and the forum is full of it. But you will not get the exact euro amount here.
Here, logically, only rough formulas can be given to you that you can still partially influence yourself. For our house, for example, we did not install a heat pump for reasons, but use infrared and a fireplace, plus an air conditioning unit with which we also occasionally heat. There are so many screws to turn regarding a house price and what suits me can be considered nonsense by the next person. We wanted to build with Liapor, suddenly bricks appeared at the site and it was said the masonry company had to be changed, that was the only option. Excuse me? They had already started and what do you do then? Today the house stands the same in KfW40+ standard and how should I now notice which bricks were used?
Therefore, Massa Haus or Town & Country can also be an option for you; there are plenty of experience reports here. You only get a price once you know the direction you are heading. Have you reliably clarified that with your buddies already?
Sure, moves don’t cost 2,000 euros but I’d rather plan for them anyway (again such a “conservative” buffer).
Also very good but here I often read about a matter of course that such things are also outsourced. Such things add up and that’s why I, for example, preferred to install an air conditioning unit with some of the money saved that way.
In your list of construction companies I read occasional "downratings," which in the end is too general because usually it depends on many things whether a build runs smoothly. My general contractor was top-rated, had regional references and exclusively small, regional companies. We would never build with him again, we use that idea more as a running gag nowadays. Others are very satisfied with Town & Country or also with Massa Haus. As I read from you, maybe a shell construction might also be suitable.
Find a suitable floor plan (Town & Country or somewhere else online), which can still be adjusted a bit here to your needs within the framework, and then go with it to Köhler or whoever he was called and tell him exactly that you have adapted it a bit from Town & Country or similar.
Then add your desired fittings and you already have a price.
Things to clarify: controlled residential ventilation? Insulation standard (I recommend at least KfW40), heating system? and his construction performance description, which you then carefully review together here. And then you are further and more concretely informed or realize that it might not work like that after all.