Is soil investigation necessary?

I can only fully agree with the 100% construction expert here. Necessary and sufficient BG set.

Tailored to your requirements. For example, we have to connect rainwater to a sewer, so no infiltration on the property. We will therefore strike this point from the soil report.

As soon as we have our building permit, the soil surveyor will come.

As soon as we have our building permit, the soil surveyor will come.

Isn't that quite late? I would have thought that the soil survey should be done before buying the property, or as early as possible. Do property sellers agree to that? Or is that just being naive again?

Hi,
this will, as always, depend on supply and demand. If a seller has no other interested parties, he will have to agree and possibly even cover the costs. But that is hardly the case at the moment...
If he has plenty of other interested parties, he would be pretty stupid to agree to an inspection in which something might come up that reduces the value of the property. In other words, at the moment you risk getting kicked out as a customer for most properties.

Best regards,

Andreas

You can certainly do that too; if you’re unlucky, they send out a soil expert twice. A building permit means we are allowed to build as planned. The site plan is already available then. Then a soil expert is specifically commissioned to provide exactly what we need, not a comprehensive all-in-one report. It turned out during the ongoing approval process that our rainwater has to go into a canal that coincidentally runs along our property boundary. So we don’t need to let anything infiltrate and no soil report is necessary for this. The canal will possibly be relocated somewhat, since we are building the garage on the property boundary. The municipality will then receive an appropriate easement from us.

I agree with andimann. The decisive point, as always, is demand.

So here, as with almost everyone in house construction, approached too naively
Thanks for the experience shared.