House construction costs, how were they for you?

  • Erstellt am 2022-12-01 22:53:28

Mach_es_selbst

2022-12-07 13:19:30
  • #1
That leads to nothing here..

Actually, I wanted to use the thread to discuss (incurred) house construction costs and possibly DIY work.
And maybe some future builders can take something away from it...
 

Torti2022neu

2022-12-07 13:26:18
  • #2
What did you seriously expect? You build a house more or less by yourself, have endless time and possibilities. That is not the norm. You can exchange yourself here in various threads about own work. But then about the normal own work: tiles, floors, walls, insulating the attic, etc. A thread with dozens of different trades is also pointless, as it does not help anyone who is specifically looking for normal own work like the ones mentioned above and needs help/exchange. Start a thread titled "I built my house myself, I'm great and happy to give tips for self-builders." P.S. I am at the end of a major renovation and have also done 85% of the work myself and don't miss a general thread for exchange.
 

WilderSueden

2022-12-07 13:40:57
  • #3
For the topic of house construction costs, there is a thread with now 1500 pages. Anyone can currently post their offers there and join the discussion. What we do not need, however, are threads for general admiration. Anyone who wants that has to bring more than just a few numbers. The little wooden houses, for example, have my utmost respect regarding that topic. And you should be a little less sensitive. This does not only refer to the thread here but also to the floor plan in the green forum, I don’t want to write everything twice ;)
 

Mach_es_selbst

2022-12-07 14:23:42
  • #4


Ok ok...

And what is the link to the long thread? I didn't find it
(or what should I search for)

What do you all have against "admiration"? That is NOT my intention!!!
But ok, let's leave it at that!!
 

Tolentino

2022-12-07 14:27:03
  • #5
In the job interview I also always say to the question: "What is your best quality?" - "My modesty!". :p scnr
 

mayglow

2022-12-07 18:17:03
  • #6



It is in the same section as the "Construction costs are currently skyrocketing" thread. But don’t expect any huge amazing comparison possibilities there. Roughly every few pages there is something related to the topic with more current numbers ("I just bought this or that material/service for xy euros" or very rarely, an actual conclusion after a completed build), and otherwise there are hundreds of pages of digressions in many directions (e.g. the mention of energy costs in some form regularly triggers fundamental discussions about the energy transition :p)


Otherwise, I can’t contribute much of what you might have hoped for. We are having a terraced house built by a developer, where own work is explicitly excluded. So we are not even builders ourselves (that’s the developer) but rather buyers and at the other end of the own work spectrum. Probably especially so with us, because our developer includes significantly more than many others (aka floors at least a base level, painting, a finished garage, paving of the terrace and driveway, even a small hedge (only because it was imposed by the city) are all typical things that you often do yourself with developer projects, but with us the developer does them). Our fixed price is 515k for the terraced end house with a basement (143 sqm living space, + basement + finished garage) on about 210 sqm of land in a mid-sized city in the Ruhr area with good connections to the nearest major city. It is not the final price yet because upgrades haven’t been done, although we are basically at the point of “actually everything or more that we see as ‘must have’ is already included in the base price. Everything beyond that is in the ‘nice to have’ range”. Overall, we would have trusted ourselves to do some own work as well, but something like what you are doing would never have been realistic for us. Otherwise, the whole framework worked for us in this project, which was not necessarily the case elsewhere. (e.g. there were other developer projects about 100k cheaper, where more own work would have been required in the end, but usually other things didn’t fit properly from the start or it was foreseeable that we would massively upgrade). So we had the feeling here of “it’s expensive but it fits”. Now we await what the next year will bring and wave at you once with our empty wallet ;)
 

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