Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

I wouldn't have a garage passage door

We are also moving away from that more and more. The fact that now even a step would come into play there brings the matter close to a knockout.

The architect just called. There is no longer any room next to the house on the right for an access gate for a mini excavator. We are now planning a 2m high fence there to enclose the garden. For that, a rear gate must also be planned in the garage so that a mini excavator can drive out there.

Without the construction advisor’s hint, I don't think we would have managed to turn this around in time. So it has already paid off to have someone with expertise take another look face to face.

That now even a step would come into play there brings the matter close to a knockout.

As I said, you don't have to level the raw floors to the same height, but can also do it with the finished floor. Have you seriously not seen the wood for the trees, i.e. forgotten amidst all the fine tuning of other little screws that a garage has an unheated and therefore often thinner built floor?

To the right of the house there is no longer any space for an access gate for a mini excavator. We are now planning a 2m high fence there to isolate the garden. For that, a gate must also be planned at the back of the garage so that a mini excavator can drive out there.

I don't even understand gibberish there (? ? ?)

Did you seriously fail to see the forest for the trees, i.e., got so caught up tweaking other little screws that you forgot that a garage has an unheated and therefore often thinner floor?

Yes, I absolutely didn't have that on my radar. It's my first and probably only house, and as a layperson in the field, one tends to focus on other things.

I don't even understand a word of that (???)

We don't want anyone to be able to walk into the garden on the right side of the house. Actually, we had originally thought of a wall with an access gate for a mini excavator there. The suggestion with the mini excavator came up somewhere here in the forum, and I liked that. The architect kept saying we don't need to draw that; I can just do it later. The building consultant then said that everything has to be planned beforehand if we want to avoid a second building application. Furthermore, he pointed out that it could get very tight on the right side of the house, especially since there is a steep slope at the property boundary there.

Passing on this information, the architect took another look and also concluded that the access on the right won't work. Therefore, as an alternative, he recommended a rear garage door for the mini excavator to pass through. He dismissed my concerns about whether the garage would be tall enough by saying that the mini excavator’s operator cabin can be removed and that would not be a problem.

Nevertheless, the sealing off on the right will be included because we want a 2-meter-high fence there, and he says only 1.80 meters can be built later without approval.

Is my first and probably only house

And does it "fit" that you specifically want to drive an excavator in its garden??? Isn't a mini excavator a bit too tall for a standard-height garage?

And does "how" fit with the fact that you specifically want to drive a digger in his garden???

I don't want to drive it. But it was advised here (and elsewhere) that for later larger gardening work etc., one should definitely be able to get a mini excavator into the garden. For example, if you want to have a swimming pool later.

Isn't a mini excavator a bit too tall for a standard-height garage?

I suspected that too. I already wrote what the architect said about it....

I already asked about the room designation. She said that you are no longer allowed to write it that way, but how I use it is my business.

Did you also ask why it is no longer allowed?
And if the answer was: because the fire protection doesn’t comply - did you then also ask if she would be liable if you set up a guest room based on her advice and a person were harmed in a fire?

(don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t care less what you do with your rooms and whether something might go wrong - but I’m still wondering if you informed yourself consciously and made a decision...)