Teimo1988
2025-08-06 10:30:48
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Doing the electrics yourself is no problem. I’ve done it twice already. You’ll manage if you want to.No, I don’t have any helpers from the construction site. I myself am an electrical engineer in industry, so I’m not from construction either. I’m just a hobby handyman and do a lot of DIY. The electrics shouldn’t be a problem, I also connected our photovoltaic system, wall box, etc. myself. Control cabinets for single-family houses come preconfigured and ready, I can also handle laying all the circuits...
I also want to install the other trades myself as far as possible. I’m confident enough to install a heat pump and underfloor heating, it’s not that complicated. I’ve never done it before, but there are plenty of instructions on it, in my assessment doable :)
I would NOT do water and wastewater myself. No experience and it would just be stupid if it leaks afterwards. But it’s certainly not rocket science either.
You can install a monoblock heat pump and lay underfloor heating yourself. Just like the insulation under the underfloor heating plus edge strips.
You can also do plastering and paneling inside yourself.
You’ve already realized about the screed, have it done. I paid €6000 gross this year for 360 m².
But if you’re always alone at the construction site, you can forget it. Electrical work might just still be possible alone. Laying underfloor heating no longer. Paneling neither. You won’t get anything done alone. Especially since you’re totally lost without knowledgeable helpers. You either need an endless amount of time or you make construction errors or both.
My tip: Pick a maximum of 2 trades (e.g., electrics and heating) to do yourself. And try to organize the rest beforehand and find people for that. Trades that come at the very end, for example laying the floor, you can still do if there’s still strength and time left.
50 days of vacation isn’t as much as you think. Besides working, you always have to coordinate all sorts of things and a thousand things will come up that you don’t yet think of.
I’ve built twice now all with individual contracts and a lot of own work. You can save a lot of money that way, but you should have a budget in reserve in case it doesn’t go as planned or you have to have more work done.