General procedure / schedule

Further on the [Bausparvertrag] page: The contents of the construction contract and the construction and service description are essential for the upcoming construction project. Therefore, you can have the fixed-price construction contract reviewed by one of our trusted lawyers and the construction and service description examined by one of our construction consultants.

As I said, I need someone to check the small but important details and to speak to the site manager on equal footing. Since I am not from the field and maybe only understand about 30% of it, I am looking for such help. However, this help should have everything checked before signing the contract and have it fairly distributed through additional clauses.

Yes, the costs for this are not small. It is a few thousand euros, but one has to consider what it saves elsewhere and one has legal protection.

Suppose the lawyer finds something and the expert does too.

You go to the company with it and say you want it changed.

Do you believe companies that currently have contracts for several years will agree to that?

Let's see, it's about a value of €350,000 to €400,000, whereby with the shell construction (which is actually erected quite quickly) most of it is actually drawn. Now I come and say Point A38 scaffolding not provided by the builder! Do you really think they would say no? Then the house construction industry must be doing extremely well or I got the wrong company.

Surely depends on the area. With us, a good company would say that you could include the scaffolding for €3000 in the contract. But the fact that it is even stated in a contract that the scaffolding, which is definitely needed, is not included does not exactly speak well for the company...

Yes, I know it was just an example of things that are simply blamed on the client. But it was the case with a provider. I don’t know if he changed it. Instead of scaffolding, it could be the WC or fees for changes after signing the contract, etc.

I agree with the suggestion to thoroughly question all the decision bases, as they also seem to me to rest too firmly on a foundation of naive assumptions. Not least, I would leave the cherry-picking dream of "saving money" by directly hiring the basement builder in fairyland. OKKD is an interface for which responsibility only belongs in separate hands if you like to gamble.

These "prefabricated construction experts" are suspicious to me; I see neither a significant difference from a "construction expert" nor a special required additional qualification for prefabricated houses.

I already wrote about the "prefabricated house expert" here: and here: and consider his specialization quite sensible at least as far as we are talking about wood frame panel prefabricated houses; those with stone walls differ conceptually hardly at all from their on-site masonry siblings.