Install click vinyl despite possibly too high residual moisture.

In the places where furniture is placed, you don't necessarily need baseboards...

No idea if this is an option for you, but we simply lived on the screed for the first few weeks. Not because of the moisture or because we had to, but because we wanted to move in and hadn't had time to lay the floor yet.

Without children, it's not that bad, the only thing that really suffers are the socks (they wear out a lot). With a pet, it probably wouldn't be so good either, because the paws could suffer.

I would probably risk the baseboards anyway... people tend to underestimate the effort, and once the furniture is standing, no one feels like moving it a meter away from the wall again to install baseboards behind it. Keep a 10-15mm expansion gap, then nothing should happen?

Thank you for the tip! I'll probably do the one wall behind the wardrobe, but all other furniture can be easily moved. Bed, sofa, dressers, etc. can be moved well and quickly with two people.

No idea if that's an option for you, but we just lived on the screed floor for the first few weeks. Not because of moisture or necessity, but simply because we wanted to move in and hadn’t had time to lay the floor yet.

That’s not a bad idea either, but you really have to be able to handle it. Unfortunately, I’m not good at living in chaos, and that’s what it inevitably is in the beginning. I need my order to feel comfortable. In previous moves, it was so bad that I started assembling all the furniture in the evenings and only stopped when everything was done. That won’t be possible with the house now, but living on screed would probably be too much for me. Based on all the info I’ve gathered now, I also wouldn’t consider the risk to be too high anymore. But thanks for the tip anyway!

And again, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone myself, but unfortunately we don’t really have a choice anymore…

Maybe a dumb question, but why do you no longer have a choice? I ask because I once - in the kitchen and bedroom - simply laid this well-known brown wrapping paper on a floor that was not yet ready for use for a transitional period and lived quite well with it for a few weeks.

Maybe a silly question, but why don’t you have a choice anymore? I’m asking because I once – in the kitchen and bedroom – simply laid this well-known brown wrapping paper on a subfloor that wasn’t ready yet for a transitional period and managed to live quite well with it for a few weeks.

Here we are again a bit with the "living on screed idea." I already answered that a little further up. It’s also complicated by the fact that from the beginning of next year we will be very busy professionally again and on the road and won’t have the time to move furniture around and lay flooring. I saved all my annual leave this year so that I can take time off from next week until the end of the year. In that period I want to get the roughest parts done (laying the floor, painting the stairs, buying and assembling furniture, cleaning, understanding the heating, finishing the technology, and so on and so forth). My partner helps me as much as she can, but psychologically it’s not so easy for her with such a huge pile of tasks. But that’s also okay, because she does other things wonderfully for us. If the risk now had been huge and the foil test had shown a very moist screed, we might have accepted that, but I think it’s okay now. And a very, very small part also plays in that we would like to spend Christmas in our house this year. Simply to finally relax after all the building stress of the last two years. Both physically and psychologically, building a house is not to be underestimated when you also have a stressful working life on the side.

Who in their right mind wants to dismantle their kitchen again after just a few months because they want to lay the floor? Especially since you should use tiles in the kitchen anyway... I didn’t want to believe it at first, but now I’m glad every day that there are tiles and not vinyl, where every dropped fork immediately causes a scratch if it falls at the wrong angle...

Of course, you can let the baseboards end at the furniture. But you always see that... always...
And woe betide if you move a piece of furniture 20cm to the left or right. Then you have to patch it, and you also always see the joint ;)

I’ve already talked to many people about this, and the consensus was unanimous:
Do what you can before you move in... once you’re living there, you won’t get anything done... and that’s usually how it is.