Opinion on various prefabricated house providers desired

Thank you for your report, did Weberhaus keep to the construction schedule? How did the price turn out, was there a lot of subsequent selection?

we came to the conclusion that it must be the Mercedes among the prefabricated house providers.

That is by no means far from the truth – although it is often forgotten that Mercedes now starts with the A-Class and already abolished the final inspection master when the first generation of the C-Class was introduced ;-)

Thank you for your report, did Weberhaus keep to the construction schedule? How did the price turn out, was there a lot of re-selection?

No. They did not. In the end it took 22 months. But I don't think we had anything fixed in the contract that allowed us to claim damages. They had already contacted us after about 6 months and said that due to higher demand, for the first time in their company’s history, they could not meet the construction schedule (you can believe that, but you don’t have to). And then there was also Corona.

But the really bad thing was not that they missed the construction time, but that they never met the deadlines they themselves had given us shortly before. We really didn’t have much done by other companies (only 4-5 things). But our companies were oddly always on time (or would have been if Weberhaus had also kept the dates they told us).

We had the excavation done by another company. They were punctual. The cellar from Weberhaus was then not punctual. They had too small a crane with them. Beginner’s mistake in my opinion. It was a subcontractor of Weberhaus. After the cellar, nothing was done on the construction site for 4 months. The neighbors thought we had run out of money (one told us that). When we had the kitchen installed, the electrician had not finished the sockets yet. The covers were still missing. So the kitchen installer installed the kitchen and connected the appliances without covers.

Then we commissioned someone for the parquet floor, because having the same parquet installed by Weberhaus would have cost double (33,000 EUR instead of 16,000 EUR). We had a very tight time window given, only 1 week. The painter and the tiler were supposed to finish everything in the two weeks before. They both didn’t do it, meaning they then walked on our expensive parquet. Of course, some damage occurred on the parquet (dents and two holes where something heavy must have fallen, but no one told us anything about it), but luckily we had a great parquet layer who came back and replaced the damaged planks for us free of charge.

Then we commissioned the garage and the foundation ourselves. Weberhaus told us that they wanted to do the external plaster between week x and week y (although they could have done it much earlier). We could then commission the foundation from week z. According to the weather forecast, the weather was supposed to be great in week x and rainy the whole week in week y. I pointed this out to the site manager. He said yes, sometimes it varies. It turned out that in week x the weather was great and in week y bad, just as predicted. The painters did some work inside the house in week x and in week y they couldn’t do the plaster outside. Therefore, the scaffolding stayed up longer than agreed, and the foundation builder couldn’t build the garage foundation in week z where the scaffolding was standing.

So they always missed the important deadlines.

That is by no means far from the truth – although it is often forgotten that Mercedes now starts with the A-Class and already abolished the final inspection master with the introduction of the first generation C-Class ;-)

However, it was not a house of the A-Class. On the one hand because of the size (240 sqm), and on the other hand also because of the equipment, KfW40 walls, HomeControl, solar, many large windows, and much more. Price 770,000 EUR. I think that in terms of price and equipment it is rather C-Class.

Thank you for your report, did Weberhaus stick to the construction schedule? How was it with the price, was there a lot of additional customization?

Price-wise naturally somewhat more expensive than most. But we consciously accepted that. It was also our second house that we built. The first was cheap. The second was meant to be rather comfortable to upscale. Price of the house was 770,000 euros. Plus land and additional costs. Overall 1,170,000 euros. So not the lower price range but not luxury either.

Thank you for the report