Experiences with GU in Saarland and surroundings

I never judge by appearances.

But this is actually a great way to sift through when looking for construction companies: with shady types, everything looks 101% perfect and so on, there is a cornucopia of visually perceptible clues.

However, we started from our conditions, namely our plot of land. We went to the building site and considered on site what could be built and how.

So you are indeed a general contractor who also plans?

Regarding the description of construction services, I can only say that the contract itself was extremely easy to understand even for laypeople and everything was clearly regulated as to whether the client or the general contractor was responsible for costs. No hidden costs came up, unexpectedly transparent. Surcharges for special items were already fixed in the contract with a sum (e.g., golden toilet + 500.00).

That is exemplary, and all the more a pity that website visitors don’t get to know this. A good description of construction services must (or should even) not be a thick book. Nevertheless, it would not hurt to address essentials in a way already recognizable to website visitors. For example, when flipping through your website, I only saw monolithic porous brick buildings (which is not bad, but nevertheless a lack of information about what you build from leads to potential customers moving on).

My impression is that they get a large number of customers through word of mouth, as I am doing now. And rightfully so!

I come from there

May I ask where you are building or have built. The website also does not show in which area around ZW they are building.

May I ask where you are building, have built. It is also not apparent on the website within what radius of ZW they are building.

I would simply ask. We are building within a radius of less than 10 km.

May I ask what the architect's name was and if you would recommend him?

In general, I would also be interested in further general contractor recommendations from the area, Saarpfalz district / Palatinate Forest. So far I have found:

[*]DHI - their website is currently down, do they still exist?
[*]KSB - contacted online, but they declined without reason / no interest
[*]Spektral (?) - do they exist?
[*]Signum
[*]RKR ? - that sounded rather negative what I found here in the forum via search. Can someone link me to a thread if anyone remembers?
[*]Novum Innovativbau

Otherwise, Town & Country seems to do a lot down there, but I don't think much of such supraregional providers. Maybe I'm too biased.

Hello Kati, as I wrote in the other thread, we built with RKR. Overall, we were very satisfied with the execution. Our (self-hired) surveyor also only found minor issues that were promptly addressed. The schedule was also adhered to. After a year in the house, I would build with RKR again with the difference that I would have the plans created beforehand by my own architect to get the optimum out of it.

RKR states in its construction service description that it has a surveyor from Dekra involved, did you use this person or did you hire someone additional yourself?

Did RKR include the earthworks in their offer? I do not read anything about this in the construction service description.

Were there any unforeseen additional costs afterward that RKR could have communicated in advance?