Estimate of construction costs for a single-family house in the Tübingen area

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ypg

2025-04-06 20:12:07
  • #1

I don’t know what you don’t understand: Town & Country is what you can afford. And it was only mentioned as an example of regional GCs.
You are here in a German-speaking forum, not in a Tübingen construction forum or in the Yellow Pages.

Then get to know them! I already asked yesterday if you guys have started yet. Man, how do the others do it? Ask here? No. They drive around, visit new development areas. There are always people who have just moved in outside in their gardens on weekends, whom you can ask. Or they are fiddling with their shell construction.


Most of them are, of course, supraregional.

No one is advising you otherwise.
That’s exactly why the advice is to go with a GC. Why do I have the feeling that you don’t take any advice at all? The advice is repeated here and you ask again. And you keep chasing the horse’s tail instead of starting at the front, when you still plan the fittings before even knowing anything about the house.

And your questions about additional building costs are most likely answered in the subforum Building Costs. I mean, of course you can continue asking here for regional general contractors – maybe you’ll get an answer sometime. But if there’s not a Tübingen local here, that may take a while. The forum has a search function and several subforums. You just have to use it.
 

11ant

2025-04-06 20:52:25
  • #2

"And if you are not dead, then you're still calculating today" (that's how your building dream ends in the fairy tale book). You urgently need to get your fear under control; it is an expensive enemy: while you wait to start until you can predict the construction costs to within 10k, time (and inflation) passes and your house will have become 20k more expensive. If you go one step further and even wait until you have identified 10k saving potential, this can even rise to 50k (not always, but more likely than "the" solution appearing in your dream). This phenomenon is the main reason why I named my builders' info blog "Building Now": the method of "building when all fears have vanished" is a costly regretted mistake for most aspiring builders. Bark beetle, Corona, Putin – the list of subsequent turbulences never ends. What you have, you have (and Villabajo once again manages to be last of two). Think of Schober and his horse keepers.


With Susi-S please. A buddy who does paving would be more helpful; he would come after the acceptance of the general contractor trades. Depending on the scope of own services or subcontracted trades, building with a move-in-ready general contractor (regardless of plaster quality) is a questionable path.


The Lichthaus is a good example (roughly your size) of a bestseller from the category "catalog house" / "type house." Several other examples would have been needed to reach a comparable number of Müllermeierschulzes who have chosen such a model.


Town & Country is more like the "Heinz von Heiden of Ratiopharm," I would say. The conservative penny-pincher buys the A3 under the name Golf.


With photovoltaics there are currently "inclusive" promotions, adding these as a bonus to the existing construction scope descriptions. These are each alibi fig leaves for the formal (and usually technically pointless) fulfillment of tightened building regulations. Builders who did not really want such things receive something at no extra cost that they can then basically ignore painlessly. For serious use, these devices are regularly undersized and are rather to be understood like the included "first max. 30 cm excavation." So you either take them "attached pro forma" unchanged as in the town fool’s offer scope – or if you like Habeck’s new clothes, then please from the start in a sensible configuration.


Kern-Haus is also out for me, but your reasoning too. Why that nonsense is explained in "Lightweight walls in solid houses?" Also read the sister article "Plan change: from concrete ceiling to a wooden ceiling." Yes, yes, grandma and her "good butter." In earlier times we had an emperor. Persistent prejudices are not even dissolved by Dr. Beckmann's stain remover.


So you would be willing to kill Schrödinger's cat just because you can only then document the certainly correct answer to whether it is still alive? – I have to immediately empty Café Korten because I hardly believe that!

If in the course of the decision-making inquiry it turns out that a proven design is better than the currently valid preliminary design, is the architect supposed to ignore that just to "justify" the effort of the tinkering fun had – do you do anything professionally with political consulting?


No. Four to six, yes, but you should not skip the decision-making (or do you think it is "more efficient" to reduce the candidate field to the wrong half without knowing which is the "wrong one"?).


Town & Country is rather the league where he really belongs – but not specifically with this provider. And he is definitely here in a forum that (in the form of the category Experiences with Construction Companies) offers a cornucopia of previously discussed companies, although I agree that I do not explicitly recall Tübingen ones there right now.
 

ypg

2025-04-06 21:28:21
  • #3
In the subforum you mentioned, almost only supraregional ones can be found. And the regional listing is wrong, namely sorted alphabetically and not by postal code – if I remember correctly. It’s useless! It’s just not the best, uh, pages. And unfortunately, the original poster does not use the mentioned forums regarding construction costs/additional construction costs as well as liquidity planning. A forum can contribute to information – business, getting an idea about something, etc. can almost only be done on site. The question here is closed – but unfortunately you can’t read him anywhere else. So I hope he is currently talking on the phone with another builder he met today.
 

D-Zug88

2025-04-06 21:50:12
  • #4


Of course, we will go to a new development area this week – if we can take time off – and ask who you are building with, how your experiences are, etc.

I will approach the subforum Ancillary Construction Costs. Thanks for the tip.

I will also look into the Finance subforum.


Thanks for the tips – I too have been hesitant about insulation so far, but without basement it becomes more interesting again. Interesting heating combo, btw. Had never thought about that either.


A more direct formulation couldn’t have caused the confusion. Doesn’t matter anyway.


Huh, what? I notice you really enjoy wordplays. For me, the topic is very serious, and yes, I have great respect for it. It’s too cryptic for me, but I do smile sometimes about it.


Even here – huh? I don’t want ibuprofen but an expert assessment of Town & Country, for example.


That sounds more understandable to me – but why? Because Town & Country has such a low construction specification? Carpet as standard – Ideal Standard basin instead of Xy?


Thanks, I understand that well and can continue reading.


Probably true – I will keep reading in the subforum, thanks for the tip.


I do, the general contractor will be the choice – free planning, goodbye.
 

ypg

2025-04-06 22:04:39
  • #5

Here you will find what you are looking for
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/search/1911372/?q=Town+%26+country&c%5Btitle_only%5D=1&o=date

The homeowners are working during the week. You will hardly meet anyone there.


Can you please explain the frustration? I find your expectations quite unrealistic, considering you yourself say that you are just starting out.
It may be that there is a lot of outdated thinking in some minds. But even a few hours of skimming through should help understand the situation and setup of the general contractor's offer somewhat and rather not cause frustration.
 

Arauki11

2025-04-06 22:26:51
  • #6
You can use the "quote" function consecutively in a single post


I definitely don't want to advertise the system I chose here, but just want to explain that there are more functional options than you think and you can live well in all of them. For example, I don't like maintenance-intensive or risky technology, plus I absolutely want thick floorboards and there are two of us; I had a great approach to insulation, and you can also buy this technically equivalent as a second choice, just like you can with classy parquet floors.
Strictly following the motto: "Necessity is the mother of invention" building a house offers many possibilities to change or shift costs.
Everyone may see that differently but I have had a house built in 1990 with 36 bricks for a long time and now, contrary to our intention, brick again, but with 14cm wood fiber insulation + wood paneling as well as additional measures for insulation, which led to Kfw40. I would always do it that way again, also because such a house does not cool down as much and therefore can be reheated again with considerably less effort.
 

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