Floor plan of a 1.5-story house with a captain's gable on nearly 200m²

" if the garage is built up to the boundary, the fire department access for the neighbor in the north is too narrow??

Hmm, good point. I have to talk to the neighbors about that. The driveway is 3 meters at the entrance and then 4 meters wide, so that should actually be fine." Make sure you inform yourselves early enough. We also had to plan a fire department access (three properties in a row). In particular, the driveway had to be calculated by the surveyor because it involved turning radii for the vehicles. In my opinion, 3 meters is not enough. In our case, it is six meters at the driveway. The neighbor on the first property had to significantly alter his plans because it affected his property. The driveway remains widened to about 5-6 meters in our case and then continues at 3.5 meters width. Additionally, we had to reserve a parking area. I cannot assess whether all this also applies in your case.

You don't happen to know where?

I can't think of it right now either.

In March, we contacted 15 architects in our target region with detailed requirements, received 7 responses, 5 had no time until at least October, and of the two with whom we then had conversations, one complained that we had too many specific demands and the other simply was not a good fit for us.

Would you like to contact me (see "Information" in my profile)? - I would be quite interested in that.

I also don't quite understand how one can end up with a "ready-made" house provider when one was looking for freelance architects.

Hi, thanks for the input!

Budget will currently not be enough for all-in.

Do you have an offer for the basement including disposal

Do you have all ancillary building costs

Do you have all costs that are declared as builder-supplied in the construction service description

Do you have all costs that will come up and are not listed in the construction service description

I never wrote my budget for all-in anywhere... That is not what this is about. The fund for ancillary building costs is well filled and must be considered separately from the house + basement.

What does the standard look like that is included in the construction service description? From electrical work to tiles to the front door? Does that match your expectations?

We have a pre-sampling on Friday, there they fix the most important things on a list.

Draw a 2 m line in the floor plan.

Should be about 1 meter from the wall, I’m in the car and don’t have the tool with me (as a passenger).

I already didn’t like the original, this here is in my opinion a deterioration disguised as an improvement.

Okay, and now?

I can only repeat myself. ;) It does NOT have to be a freelance architect, but first buying a standard house and defining special requests afterwards does not seem very sensible to me. However, I can tell you that our contact with Gussek Haus looked similar, which is why we decided against this provider due to the many question marks to be clarified "later." It definitely works differently and better.

We haven’t found anyone so far. We are building remotely (500 km) and have to be finished by Sept 2023. That’s why it has to be move-in ready right away. Also, we have to have brick cladding. All providers who build move-in ready immediately reject individual planning right away or take forever. We also have no intention to buy a standard house and do everything differently later.

Furthermore, I take from your answers: “Everything’s wonderful, that’s how we’ll build.” :oops: I just say “Help.”

Where do you get that from? I was simply neutral about everything. Winding and a long way, I accept that. But that was also our starting point, how stupid is such a long corridor? We have a construction deadline by when it must be ready to live in by 2023. The architects just took forever. The feedback “it’s awful, go to the architect” is just very one-dimensional.

Would you contact me sometime (see “Information” in my profile)? – that would interest me more closely.
I also don’t really understand how one can end up with a “finished” house provider when one has been looking for freelance architects.

Done

must be done by Sept 2023

Then you still have time, although depending on the provider not much. But you are building in NI? I am not familiar with that, but in NRW there are quite a few good general contractors who are happy and willing to do an individual plan with you. Ours literally cheered when we mentioned that we wanted clinker bricks. (That probably doesn't happen every day anymore.) You need one like that too.

We are building at a distance (500 km) [...] We also need to use facing bricks.

Hehe, I almost said "Hello neighbor," but it's not quite that close to Lower Saxony ;-). Facing bricks and Gussek Haus is an obvious, but not mandatory association. I do count them among the "good," fairly high-quality providers within the big names, but I generally prefer regional builders (where it is also easier to find supervising architects on site who know their people).

Where do you get that from?

Well, you have practically "ironed away" almost everything. Kitchen table that doesn't fit in front or back, kitchen generally unergonomic, 0.5 sqm "rooms", roof window, etc. Nothing really fits together in the hut, which is why I "only" criticized the 42 at (hall/stairs/WF). The rest is unnecessary because "shifting walls" won't make it any better.