Plot with cut-in power station / L-shape - idea search

Hi,

I am amazed by two things: firstly by the long planning period

Am I seeing this correctly, you have been planning the house for 2.5 years? Guys, it’s a house, not an aircraft carrier....

I see clear signs of losing focus...

Best regards,

Andreas

Am I seeing this right, you have been planning the house for 2.5 years? Guys, this is a house and not an aircraft carrier....

It’s not due to the complexity of the task, hence my well-founded suspicion that it must be the design process. Draftsmen have not studied design and can therefore only quickly deburr existing designs before plating. Editorial restructuring overwhelms them, which then leads to countless extra rounds of circling the goal according to the "Infinite Monkey Visualization Ping-Pong" method. This method is highly inefficient. Engaging a draftsman instead of an architect inevitably leads to a slapstick act, as if you were playing golf with a hockey stick. And as I said, it also wastes time worth easily the equivalent of two full fees.

October 19... February 23

I "think" the biggest favor you do yourselves is to simply take a finished draft, otherwise I believe you might still be planning until retirement and be annoyed about the lost time in the house

The budget is hopefully set by now or doesn’t matter? It’s probably on the 6 pages, I guess, it wasn’t in the opening post :)

Hi,
I just quickly skimmed through the thread again and have to correct myself, it’s not 2.5 years of planning but 3.5 years!! Are you aware that you could have been living in the house for 2 years now and probably saved an almost six-figure amount, which the house has become more expensive by in the meantime? Every month of planning costs you more money for rent of the current apartment, financing costs of the land, and further price increases. That quickly adds up to several thousand per month. You have to be able to afford that first!
It’s not meant to sound as harsh as it does, but in that time you could almost have completed a degree to become a civil engineer or architect and then matters like in #26 would be clearer to you.
If you really want to build seriously, either go to a good architect and have them plan it or go to a general contractor and have a catalog house built for you. You’ve completely lost track...
Best regards,
Andreas

Almost a six-figure amount? Given the house size and price increases of 20-30% in the last 2, 3 years, one can definitely assume a six-figure sum...

If you really want to build seriously, either go to a good architect and have them plan, or go to a general contractor and have them build a catalog house.

Well, now don't scare off the OP immediately and deny them sincere intent to build. As far as I can see, they have exactly done that: gone to a general contractor (and one of their competitors), and both building proposals were (for reasons not quite clear to me) not good enough to put the decisive signature under them. Hoping for the help of a forum to score the house design from the penalty spot is not objectionable in itself. Nor is it to hope, with a basically general-contractor-ready plot of land, to be able to save on a freelance architect for a single-family house. It just doesn't make sense to me how, given the development of construction costs, one wouldn't rather try a freelance architect instead of praying to Godot (though it does compel a certain admiration on my part).