Garden landscaper offer ok or rather totally exaggerated?

But your detail-obsessed expertocracy (everything I can't do myself has to be assessed, certified, and done by other "experts") is driving you to the brink of madness.

That's how it is. Other builders can't do everything themselves either, but for them it's simply done by one person (or another one of the father-in-law's buddies) – by the way, completely without water-spewing lamp sockets.

where is your problem? I tell you: you are jealous.

Jealousy is a deadly sin.

No, I'm not. If someone sets up a 120k garden, I say respect, I can't afford that. The rest fits, but not then. We have to finish the project, but please test, document and approve at the same time. Wörgh life balance? Do you really have to celebrate the children's birthday right before the go-live?

I don’t just send a blacked-out list without comment, but of course I call them first and openly explain my thoughts. For example, that my site manager looked at the present offer and said it was massively overpriced. Sometimes I also mentioned the total price. But no matter which approach you choose, it’s generally difficult. Someone has now responded and said that I should lay the electrical lines and the lines for the future irrigation myself in advance, then he could carry it out. What that costs, we didn’t get that far because this approach doesn’t help me. I’d be getting bogged down with dozens of individual trades and afterwards it would be a huge mess, no one knows anymore where things are and so on......

They’re just not businessmen and think at that price: Blabbermouth, he’ll come back anyway, can’t lay any lines anyway. Or do you think a Ferrari salesman would let a spoiler be removed because of you?

Someone has now come forward and said that I should lay the electrical lines and lines for the future irrigation myself in advance, then he could carry it out. What that costs, we didn’t get that far, as this approach doesn’t get me any further. I would get bogged down with dozens of individual trades and afterwards it would be a huge mess, no one would know where anything is and so on and so forth......

I believe that is exactly the problem with the whole thing. Most garden landscapers can’t handle such a large project on their own. (For that money most would get their shell construction.) Usually it goes like this: Area A, B, C is done by the garden landscaper and E, F is own work. Maybe someone else comes and does G. Coordinated by the client.

In the end, when you go with an all-in-one garden landscaper, you have a general contractor who has to outsource everything he cannot do himself. Why not a landscape architect who designs everything and then coordinates the construction with the individual trades?

When I read electrical lines, it sounds like more. Where should the sub-distribution go? Has a place already been assigned? Who handles the control? The lights and everything else should turn on and off, for example via dimming or timer. How does the water get from the house into the garden?

I find some of the statements here really presumptuous. Räuber does not seem to be someone who needs tips for the "right" way of life.

Viewed neutrally, it makes much more sense how he implements it: the things he cannot or does not want to do himself, he outsources. He can afford that. There is nothing reprehensible or wrong about that. On the contrary, he helps other people earn income.

There is nothing to object to in that. But does it function properly in this case? The point of something like this is to free oneself from certain stress factors by outsourcing work in exchange for money. But I do not see that here. And my opinion is simply that this is not just down to the general contractor (who admittedly makes mistakes).

The stress level has reached a point that is contrary to the purpose of "paying and having it done." And I worry that, burdened with these negative emotions, eventually the finished house will be seen—and relaxation will never come. In the end, I would like to grant Räuber a nice house where he sits and says, "Everything worked out as desired, feet up, beer (or wine) on, relaxation."

Why not a landscape architect who plans everything and then coordinates the construction with the individual trades?

!!! I think that's good !!!