With us, it took 11 months including the base slab until moving in, of which 4 weeks nothing happened because it was too cold and 4 weeks probably due to delays, no idea. It was okay that way.
Solid construction under 8 months is only possible with a lot of risk and at the expense of quality. Physics cannot be outsmarted and drying times must be observed. Timber frame construction, of course, goes much much faster..
I see it differently. We were living in the house 6 months after the first groundbreaking – solid construction. Drying times were only for the foundation slab and screed, and those were fully observed. And that was regular screed, not anhydride (is that what it’s called?). And our house is super dry.
We built with an affordable general contractor, but our construction supervisor had no quality objections. Although he is rather a critic of this cheap chain. Nothing worth mentioning went wrong.
Of course, there weren’t any great idle times – most of the time it was about a week, I believe.
So we had about 7 months with timber frame construction from earthworks to moving in... and that with 285m². If the contractor hadn’t dawdled so much, 6 months would have easily been possible. We had a concrete slab, screed, and drywall that needed to dry. To be fair, it should also be mentioned that about 8 months passed from signing the contract to the earthworks.
15.3. to 1.9. exactly five and a half. However, they had already done the base slab before Christmas in December and left it to cure until March. Construction method Ytong plastered, classic. The house was sufficiently dry at the time of moving in,
We have been in since the end of February. The start was on May 1, 2018 - makes 10 months. Classic Yong/KS construction method with brick facing without a basement. If the municipal utilities hadn’t slept and we had gotten through the in-house work a bit faster towards the end, it could have been 8-9 months. But that wasn’t necessary either, so all good