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It could certainly have been done more cheaply, e.g. with tiles.

Here are a few pictures of me. Although I rotated them correctly on the PC, they are turned back to their original position when uploaded.

1 - a bit more Tetris during insulation. My edge insulation strip was discarded because it had no inward tab and was placed too low. The installer put in a new insulation strip.
2 - underfloor heating in a children's room
4 - underfloor heating in a bathroom
5 - the cable mess from the electrician had to be taken off the floor, note: everyone leaves everything lying around and thinks they are finished
6 - multi-utility entry brought together on the outside and inside through the basement wall - that took strength and patience (or at least 500 EUR to the network operator, but better to fuss for 2 hours yourself)
8 - multi-utility entry insulated and extended into the street with empty conduits
9 - multi-utility entry in the basement in the HAR: Telekom cable already pulled in (done myself)
10 - media connections in the street
11 - multi-utility entry in the basement in the HAR: all media connected
12 - here I insulated the now no longer accessible spots on the water pipes where the installer botched it (removed insulation horizontally on top and patched in the bottom right)

By now all heating circuit distributors are installed, all floors equipped with underfloor heating, and the house connections are complete. The screed will be laid at the end of the week. Between Christmas and New Year, the attic will be insulated, the vapor barrier completed, and the slopes covered with OSB boards (once again DIY), so that the heating system can be installed in the attic.

I'll just put these pictures in here. But you could also create a new thread with a title like "Best of Baustelle" or "When the craftsman says he's done..."

Picture 1:
All cables come together here in the basement bathroom; they are routed under a suspended ceiling to the distribution box in the adjacent house connection room. The picture already shows the "after" state. The whole mess was lying on the floor. Not very practical when insulation, underfloor heating, and screed need to go in. So we built this wooden structure. By the way, the toilet is installed 4 cm too low and still needs to be corrected.

Picture 2:
House connection room. Electrician says: all clear, screed can come.

Picture 3:
Things you do as a builder in the evening before the screed arrives.

Picture 4:
The installer probably laid underfloor heating for the first time in his life, or thinking is not one of his strengths.

Picture 5:
Things you do as a builder in the evening before the screed arrives.

Picture 6:
We were already at work here. The wall was broken open for a 100 mm pipe, the ring beam cut, but then the gas line was laid in front of the floor beam. The plasterer can just thicken the wall by 5 cm, right?

Picture 7:
Things you do as a builder...

Picture 8:
Installer is done.

Picture 9:
What you don’t see in picture 8. Outer pipe almost 50 cm, the one next to it 30 cm not insulated, at the level of the concrete ceiling.

Picture 10:
Things you do as a builder until you would call it finished yourself... The screed is being done right now, after that you wouldn’t have been able to reach it anymore.

There are probably reasons why these people are craftsmen and not astronauts. By the way, this list makes no claim to be complete, it is just an excerpt from recent times. We have already corrected several other things ourselves at the last minute. Otherwise, for example, we would now have two ventilation pipes from the controlled residential ventilation running right through the hallway to the upper floor instead of as planned in the storage room on the ground floor.

It really pisses me off that you can’t even leave the construction site running for 2 or 3 days. Then the next nonsense happens... like small children...

So, now you have something to smile about and I’ve let off some steam.

Hello,

There are probably reasons why these people are craftsmen and not astronauts.

I've asked myself something like that several times. Or rather: "how did he manage to find the way to work this morning? Or is he brought by mom every morning and retrained??"

btw: I notice that the sliding protections are missing on the floor heating pipes in the door transitions. Wherever the pipes bridge an expansion joint in the screed, they actually need to be covered so that the screed can slide on the pipes at that point when it expands.
Have they been installed yet?

Best regards,

Andreas

Phew, you gave me a scare. Just a quick note so this doesn’t get too off-topic again.

I quickly checked with the building authority:
- yes, they are missing, but it should actually be that they are installed
- in practice, they are often omitted
- nothing happens anyway
- the screed layer installer pondered that there used to be individual circuits laid in such a way that the expansion joints do not cross any cables (large living-dining-cooking area), today nobody would care about that anymore
- the screed layer installer did not complain that these things are missing
- photos for documentation are available
- in case of doubt, the cost might be split between the plumber and the screed layer installer

Well...

The screed is in, now there is a bit of a break.

At the beginning of January, the sub-distribution for the electricity as well as the gas boiler will be installed, so that we can soon start heating.

Between the days, I will insulate and clad the sloping walls in the attic.