How to realistically assess personal effort?

Corona has taught us one thing: Planning construction can be hard to calculate even with professional companies, with friends and relatives you can almost forget about it. And a problem not to be underestimated: discussing construction defects and consequential damages, construction delays, etc. with friends and relatives does not make you happy. Plus questions of liability and insurance,…

hmm, 20 or 30 years ago, almost exclusively a lot of own effort was used for building. Nobody worried about such things then. I think we will return to that because otherwise hardly anyone can afford building anymore. Sure, due to Corona someone might be absent sometimes, but in the circle of friends and family it's always just a short absence.

The thread starter wrote that he only wants to move in in 2025 or 2026. He has plenty of time to tackle the matter without rush and panic. Because that also costs a lot of money if everything has to be done very quickly.

Don't let the people here in the forum tell you that it can't be done. And those 3000 euros per square meter only apply if you don't want to lift a finger yourself.

Two years ago, I started building a city villa in timber frame construction. Without a basement, on a slab. I did everything myself. The only craftsmen were a master carpenter for setting it up—for 4 hours—a civil engineering company for concreting the slab, and the window installers. You have much better conditions than I did. So do it. My villa is now completely finished from the outside and has 192 square meters of living space, and I still have about 1.5 years of interior finishing ahead of me. So far, the whole thing has cost me 148,000 euros. If I put another 100,000 into the interior finishing, I'll be at a cost of about 1300 euros per square meter. But then it will also be a palace. Including a 45-meter-long driveway. I just pay with 3.5 years of my life. Get started—it’s the best thing I've done in my life so far!