Planning the dream house after shocking calculation

We have a "double solution". In the basement there is a utility room with a washing machine and dryer and storage cabinets for household chemicals, etc. On the 2nd floor with the bedrooms there is an additional washing machine in the bathroom. Laundry that takes a long time to wash and then needs to go into the dryer goes into the washing machine downstairs, everything else is washed upstairs and usually dried on the balcony because it would be too much for me to run downstairs in the evening. Large items are put on the rotary clothes dryer in the garden on weekends when the weather is nice.

Sylvia

I find it, for example, quite strange to calculate the performance of the scaffold twice – is the scaffolder supposed to dismantle after the roof frame is completed, only to erect it again for the exterior plastering?
Rhenish greetings

Hello Bauexperte.
We will do it like this / are currently doing it like this.

The scaffolding for the work on the roof cost €3600 (with net / fall protection and double layer on top) and it even has only 2 levels (so it would not have been suitable for the plasterer), otherwise it would have been even more expensive. Also, in the comparison of offers, an extended standing time per week cost between €170 and €250. If the thing now stands for 3 months or longer beyond its own "trade standing time," that is up to €1000 loss per month.

On Monday this scaffold can go away.
We will plaster at the earliest at the end of November (and if the weather does not allow it anymore this year, probably starting from March), the plasterer will then come again with his own scaffold. Costs: €1450.

That is definitely cheaper than having one standing all the time.

Our architect also estimated from the beginning with 2 scaffolds. In his experience that is cheaper. If it had been foreseeable otherwise or one scaffold had been cheaper, we would have done it as well.

Does not have to be a bad thing.

Our scaffold is set up only once and used by the roofer, plumber, plasterer, and window installer. We will not need it for more than 4 weeks, but that is the basic standing time included in the price anyway. Costs 6 €/sqm and 0.30 €/sqm x week from the 4th week (all net) Height class H1, width class W06

Hello Emer,

I have to admit, I don’t understand it ...

Our architect also estimated from the beginning with 2 scaffolds. In his experience, that is cheaper. If it had been foreseeable otherwise or a scaffold cheaper, we would have done that as well.

At our construction sites, a scaffold stays up until the exterior plaster/facing bricks are completely applied. Various trades, which can barely work without a scaffold (e.g. carpenter and roofer), share the costs.

Do I understand correctly that you as the client pay the scaffold costs alone?

Rhenish regards

Indirectly, certainly. However, I have never awarded contracts (and never will) without renegotiations. There are other strategies than saying: "You can use the scaffold for €300."

I don't want to take advantage of anyone either (don't get me wrong), they still have to work properly. :)

So far, despite the fact that I have been "stuck" with the costs for scaffolding, all our special requests, which we have mentioned but not included in the budget, have been fulfilled without exceeding the budget. - And they were not always small either.

Hello Emer,

So far, despite "sitting on" the costs for scaffolding, all our special requests—which we once expressed but did not include in the budget—have been fulfilled without budget overruns. - And they were not always small.

It does not matter what "name the child gets" ;)

For the sake of transparency, you should deduct the respective "savings" from the scaffolding costs, otherwise a distorted impression arises for potential builders reading here.

Rhenish greetings