Front door or construction site door or side entrance?

Hi, in just under 2 weeks our house construction with the foundation slab begins.

We are building with a general contractor or main contractor? I don't remember anymore. It is a turnkey house in solid construction, with architectural services, and the trades are awarded by them. The trades come from all over Germany.

We had the front door including the sidelights deducted and bought it ourselves, or rather ordered it this week.

In an email from the house building company it says:
"Please note that the front door must then be delivered and installed by you when our windows are installed. The shell must be closed so that we can continue with the work. If you install a construction site door, additional finishing costs for the later installation of the 'real' front door on site will be incurred. These costs are to be paid separately on site by you according to effort."

One thing I don’t understand is that I have the service for the complete plastering of the house and the complete screed in the contract.
Why do I have to expect additional costs in this regard if the actual front door is only installed at the end and the workers have to plaster or lay the screed again afterwards?
Theoretically, it should only be the transportation that I have to pay for again, right? Because material and labor are included anyway.
But many also charge well for transportation, especially if they come from Hanover and we build in Lampertheim.

The site manager said on Tuesday that I would probably only have to pay about €100 for the construction site door. But of course, I don’t have this in writing.

If I understand correctly and install a construction site door, I pay for it and at the end the actual door with frame comes and then the screed etc. is reworked, right?

How can I avoid this?

A coworker of mine, who also sells front doors, said:
If it is not possible otherwise and to avoid costs and damage to the expensive front door, I should simply install it from the start, wrap it well and lock it!
The construction workers should then simply enter the house from the back via the terrace.

Is this possible? Can I insist that they then go sideways or through the back of the house in order to protect the door?

Attached is our construction schedule and the floor plan with the "entrances."

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards

I would arrange with the door supplier that they install the front door only as a frame without filling, as a chipboard will be inserted, and the filling will be delivered and installed later when everything is safe. That’s how we do it. See picture. Frame and handle are well protected by foils. Karsten

But that only works with front doors that have a visible panel, right? Back then we also got the front door ourselves. Our construction company then installed a construction site door, and only after the house was almost finished did we have the actual door installed. We didn’t pay anything extra. How are the craftsmen supposed to get through the patio door, is it lockable from the outside? Best regards Sabine

Hi, that's right. No, it cannot be locked from the outside.

but that only works with front doors that have a visible panel, right?

I think Nordlys actually meant the "sash" there. So that you only install the frame of the door (which can already be plastered) and protectively tape it off; the door sash - whether it has panels or not - is not yet hung, nor are its hinges screwed in, but instead a chipboard is inserted in which the construction site door can be mounted.

Yes, that is a practical solution. It wouldn’t be a problem for the craftsmen to "go around the back."

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In an email from the house building company it states:"... If you install a construction site door, additional processing costs will arise for the later installation of the "real" front door on site."

The construction site door covers parts of the reveal where the final door is fitted. You then have to work around that and complete the work at a later stage. If the contractor supplied the door, they could better coordinate the replacement timing and avoid the double effort involved. It is perfectly correct and objectively justified not to absorb the additional cost on behalf of the client.

But the frame and the side panel are also not exactly cheap. And they will probably have to work on them more often as well.