Floor plan design for a two-family house on a slope

Damn. Hopefully the window fitter messed that up and not them (didn't pay attention during approval...)

The fault is not ours. The mistake has already been admitted. But we still have the problem that we will soon have to leave our apartment and may have to stay somewhere else for about 8 weeks. And that with 3 children (between 2 months and 5 years). :-(

Life goes on!

Four of the seven sliding doors have to be newly delivered. It should take six weeks. We accepted three as a gesture of goodwill. They are the ones on the lowest floor for the children's rooms. The passage height is only 2.05m, but it should be sufficient. For any others, we would have insisted on replacing all windows. We do not have any advantage from this. It would have been conceivable to continue with the interior construction of the lowest floor separately from the two upper floors, but now there is an overall "stop."

I had vacation for the last two weeks. It was a great time, but also an exhausting time.

The four ground collectors, each with 300m, were also buried and connected to the distributor. So now almost no earth is being moved in the garden anymore. It was tedious since you could only dig one trench for the collector at a time and practically had to place the excavated soil on the next one. The trenches could not be opened in parallel. Thus, each pile was moved at least five times.

This is what it looks like after backfilling.

And exactly according to the saying "when things go bad, they really go bad." We had to find out that L-blocks were sprayed with symbols from past times. Fortunately, none on our property. But some blocks had to be stored outside in a field. This was also discussed with the owner, who then also immediately received 3-4 wagons of free excavation material. Fortunately, most of the L-blocks lay with their front face against the ground surface, but those that were standing were defaced...

Almost exactly one month of standstill since the last post. Not much has happened on the construction site. Today and/or tomorrow the four (too shallow) lift-and-slide doors will be removed and on Monday the new ones will be installed. Then finally work on interior and exterior plaster, drywall, and screed can continue.

From good news to bad news: additional costs. I knew we would have additional costs. I thought and planned for a mid-five-figure amount. But now that the subsequent trades have finally been backed by "real" offer prices instead of estimates, the amount was six figures. This was discussed and approved with the financier. Then at the beginning of the week came the SR for the shell construction. It was estimated that it would be about ten thousand EUR above the original offer. This has now become/is now 65. Of course, we also contributed to this (because of surface-mounted instead of flush-mounted fittings, a few more sockets, aluminum-clad windows...), but by no means six-figure additional costs (now starting with the digit two). Something like this really hits you hard.

At this point also as a warning to all future builders!

One mistake on my part was certainly that at the beginning I "controlled" based on the cost breakdown (- determination) according to DIN. Since this is organized by building components, it gradually became difficult to impossible. I then switched to a breakdown by trade. It was very unfortunate in retrospect to use estimated costs (even by an expert [architect]) instead of "real" offer prices here. The "upgrades" occurred because we always obtained alternatives when submitting the offer. For example, with the windows: a) white plastic b) anthracite plastic c) plastic with anthracite aluminum cladding. The price difference between a) and c) was, for example, not that high. However, it was therefore not clear whether offer a) was at the price level that was assumed in the cost determination. I am still amazed and hope that everything will turn out well. Hoping to be able to show pictures of the progress again soon.