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Aren't those just "strips" anyway? Otherwise, the neighboring facade would have to protrude further or there would have to be more insulation on , or am I thinking incorrectly?

I would have liked to have clinker bricks. However, the additional cost compared to plaster was >60,000€!

The price differences are always astonishing. You probably also have a bigger house? We have a slab foundation 7x13m plus a 3x4m extension for the building services. I should maybe also mention that we are building with his very small company and the managing director is very transparent with costs. The house price without the extension was 245k, contract signed in 2020. Craftsmen from Moldova, etc.

Yes, of course extra cost. We’re all talking about extra costs. Sorry, Keks, but that’s unfortunately how it is in the forum here, that we tend to latch onto individual topics and questions. That doesn’t mean we want to talk you out of your decision. It’s more about the fundamental question (so here 7/14k€ extra costs for clinker facing is cheap), generally – not about your specific decision against clinker facing.

All good! I just had the feeling that I might have withheld some information from you and just wanted to make up for that. I’m also happy to answer further questions if there are any.

Aren’t those just "thin bricks" anyway? Otherwise the neighbor’s facade would have to protrude further or would need more insulation, or am I thinking wrong?

Our house was built with 36.5cm pumice (with insulation) and was plastered. The neighbors have 24cm pumice + insulation + clinker bricks (definitely not thin bricks). The masonry of the neighbor’s house was set a little "into the room," causing the neighbors to lose some living space. I believe we’re talking about 3-4cm per house wall. So that it would then be flush with our house on the outside.

This is a semi-detached house and our neighbors simply decided shortly before the foundation slab was poured that they preferred to use brick cladding.

Same architect, same construction company.
At least we were "kindly" asked if we also wanted brick cladding before the ego trip was carried out.
We didn’t want it because of the extra cost (about €7000 overall).

7k for brick cladding doesn’t seem much to me; if possible, always go for brick cladding. I would make cuts elsewhere then.

Our floor in the first room <3 It doesn't stick yet, but at least it's already lying there...

Time to post something in the thread again. Basic cleaning, screed, shower seals, etc. are visually rather mediocre (there are a hundred pictures on the blog, but the tiler has now finished the bathroom on the upper floor. Entry is not yet allowed, so just one picture from the hallway. )

(...) The house price without the extension was 245k, contract signed in 2020. Craftsmen from Moldova, etc.
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That doesn't have to be a bad thing. But what do you think is one of the biggest cost drivers in the trades in Germany?
Wages, of course.

While the Moldovan tiler can work for 15-20 EUR per hour, the German tiler has to charge 50-80 EUR/h, depending on the region.
For 3 weeks, which a tiler (for us) needed for the bathroom, guest toilet, kitchen, and hallway, that's a sharp 2,000 EUR versus 6,000 EUR. And the Moldovan doesn't stop after 8 hours, he toils 12 hours for his few euros.
Where else should he go?

The tiler drives home to his family, the Moldovan to his cheap accommodation...

The problem is only: if we let everything be done by Eastern Europeans... then in the medium term we are also sawing off our own work ;)