Planning for a single-family house

At VW, I also don’t find out who the alloy wheels actually are from. There is only a VW stamp on them. I also don’t learn anything about the relationship between battery size and alternator (in the best case, I can order a larger battery as an extra). I have to rely on the engineers at VW having dimensioned it correctly.

But you don’t have to know that.. The car is the finished product for which you can read tests etc... you can inform yourself precisely about strengths and weaknesses in advance...

I think you could endlessly carry on like this. So I am in a similar situation there as now. I buy a product and am given a price for it. I know the installed components. But I try to judge whether the price is appropriate.

The difference is that the house is not a finished “product” that is manufactured and tested identically in large quantities... it is rather a system of different products, which hopefully are well coordinated with each other... And those components you simply don’t know!

Every manufacturer has good and bad products or products that fit your “system” or don’t...

whether you personally can even judge if they fit or not is another matter...

Continental, for example, delivers good car tires! However, if you happen to have a set of Continental winter tires from your old Polo and now want to put them on the 20-inch summer wheels of your new BMW X5, then the whole thing is just nonsense...
The tires themselves might even have been test winners... that doesn’t change anything...

A good example of this is China... the Chinese love everything that is Western. However, they do not have the quality standards that we have. The bar is simply set much lower. I traveled around China for 3 weeks last year and saw various Villeroy & Boch products in different hotels and guesthouses. :) Oh dear.... there were some wild things, and sometimes it even said "Western Standard"... hehe

By the way, nothing against Chinese hotels... I have never been treated and cared for better.... Amazing what you get offered in 4-star hotels there.

by the way, nothing against Chinese hotels... I have never been treated and cared for better.... Great what you get offered in 4-star hotels there.

Oh, so your boss booked the complete package for you including "personal care"? ;)

I was there on my honeymoon... had enough "personal attention" with me :)

I was on my honeymoon... had enough "personal attention" with me :)

You bastard, cheating on your honeymoon :p