Opinions about our topic home ownership

Means:

Plot: TEUR 60
Single-family house according to Kfw 70: TEUR 248
Utility basement: TEUR 50
Finished garage 6 x 6: TEUR 13 (incl. strip foundations; execution as FD with sectional door)
Additional construction costs: TEUR 35-40
Painting work in EL: TEUR 10
Floor coverings in EL: TEUR 10
Outdoor facilities in EL: TEUR 10 (only the necessary)
Reserve extras: TEUR 10

The effort for "normal" handling, i.e. house construction via GU/GÜ roughly: TEUR 451

You probably mean that, therefore you can be your own site manager ;)

For this, I have given you figures above, if you want to contract conventionally to a single provider. You can already see from these numbers that your budget is too small for your project. Also for single awarding; current experiences with single trade awarding and time expenditure can be found here:



Rhenish greetings

And are there now also benchmark values for how much I can save with own work? For example, labor costs for the shell construction are often given as 40%, right?

Hello! I can already imagine that you, as a mason/young structural engineer, can plan a house. You could also contribute a lot of EL with your manual skills.

And I’m well aware that the whole thing takes a lot of time, but you just have to get through it. There are no problems with the job since I have fixed working hours.

Well, having fixed working hours is usually the problem – you won’t be flexible, you’ll have to be reachable during working hours every day and possibly supervise your people on the construction site during the day. We built turnkey and sometimes had to go to the construction site spontaneously between breakfast and lunch breaks to answer questions from the craftsmen. Not every boss is okay with that ;) When we contributed our EL, everyone was already enjoying their well-deserved after-work hours – that doesn’t exactly make the construction process easy. Regards, Yvonne

Good morning,

And are there now also reference values for how much I can save with my own contribution? For example, labor costs for the shell construction are often given as 40%?

Various values "circulate"; I have also seen that 70% is assumed for painting work. You will only know for sure when you compare the initial calculation with the real final calculation. These percentage figures are of no use to you – in my view – either; for the financing bank, if that is relevant, you need a complete offer. Meaning, have an offer made for a refined shell construction and for a turnkey house.

I did not include the link to the neighboring thread for nothing. If you follow it, you will find that in the end you will not save any money; the fittings will probably be of higher quality, but that’s about it on the whole. Homebuilders who dream of noticeably saving euros through their own contribution and give all trades to themselves with this expectation are often disappointed in the end. The temptations of fitting options are too great ;)

Where real money can be saved – I agree with you – is on the shell construction. BUT only if you have very good connections to a building materials supplier (not a hardware store) – better yet a manufacturer – AND time to actually build the shell construction yourself; every helper costs money and social security contributions. As a trained bricklayer, this should be possible for you, whether you have the necessary time for it is another question; likewise, whether your employer agrees with that ;)

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