Garage not from house building company - Appearance

The Hoffmann garages do not have a metal parapet like a Chiara-Ohoven lip, but a plastered parapet with an aluminum drip edge. Just so that it looks discreetly good next to any "architect's house" and remains technically and visually neat and low-maintenance forever.

Whether you believe it or not, aluminum is also metal. Therefore, the Hoffmann people will certainly only cook with water, and build a visible parapet cover, which in turn will stand out from a certain part of the house. : Speaking of the house, clarify the warranty issue at the connection point between the garage roof and the facade early with both the garage supplier and your prefabricated house supplier. Especially with timber frame construction, this must be sealed very carefully and also sufficiently high. I can well imagine that the house builder will cause trouble there immediately.

I know from my own observation that after fifty years they are still as fit as new. Hoffmann is affordable, but not cheap. In this respect, an offer from your local provider that is so much more expensive is probably also a defensive offer.

From the whole construction logistics alone, it is unattractive for the "prefabricated" house builder to arrange a garage builder. Am I right in understanding that you originally looked for the cheapest total price for house and garage and are now separating, since the bundle doesn't convince you anywhere for price reasons? - you know my consulting services?

Yes, that's the case. The construction company with which I believe we can get the best package for us and with which I also have a very good feeling and whose references I know is currently the most expensive in direct comparison for the garage. The provider was also not the cheapest for the house, but the package is the most attractive for me, including some marginal conditions that were included in the evaluation. So it is not the cheapest offer. But with the garage, in my comparison, they have overshot the mark and are not competitive in my opinion. I just don't want to grant them that. And neither does my account. Especially when I know that other construction companies can do it cheaper. Whether in stone or wood. So I did not look for the cheapest, but for the most affordable.

Therefore, I have made the decision to let the company build as well, but without the garage. I would then get that, for example, from Hoffmann. Only with the concerns about how that would then look...

In numbers. 25 sqm garage. Simple. Electric door, electrical package included. With box, one door inside. Like in the linked plan ~40k€ at the said construction company. At Hoffmann, it costs me about ~25k€ according to the offer. Not a big difference in money now, but having or not having 15k...

I’m going to be heretical and think out of the box. With a planned 25m² garage, the price per m² is already pretty high anyway. If you then, rightly, worry that it might not look cohesive when sourced from two different providers, why even have a garage at all? Wouldn’t a stylish carport, which already stands out, plus if you absolutely need lockable storage space on top, then a nice garden shed that can be ordered to match the carport, be a more attractive option?

Well, this is about connecting a garage. Please stay on topic.

PS: Carport and stylish, that’s also a matter of opinion and very subjective.

Speaking of the house, clarify the warranty question in good time with both the garage provider and your prefab house provider regarding the connection point between the garage roof and the facade. Especially with timber frame construction, this must be sealed very carefully and sufficiently high.

And you should definitely take that into account with the 15k you plan to save, because that must be prepared by the house builder.

Believe it or not, aluminum is also sheet metal. Therefore, the Hoff people will certainly only cook with water, and build a visible parapet cover, which in turn will set itself apart from the house to a certain extent.

However, against the background of the most itching question of the original poster, it makes a significant difference whether you get a plastered parapet with a drip edge in the visual format of a decorative strip sitting on it, or whether the garage roof has an all-around sheet metal standing collar.