Why do prefabricated house providers then offer house construction (turnkey) for 250,000?
Why not? Likewise with solid builders. That’s called advertising... bait... nobody wants to drive a Golf without air conditioning either, but it is offered
So things like painting walls or wallpapering and laying the floor I could do all by myself.
As if material and time don’t cost anything... before you know it, you are sitting on it for the second month, in which you then pay double: old rent and new mortgage.
Basement -> Mainly to store things like winter tires, etc... and not to live in
Those who can calculate and weigh costs are clearly at an advantage
I just don’t understand why so many complain that in the end you pay almost twice as much as planned. I know that not everything always goes smoothly with house construction and that you have to factor in a buffer of capital or extra costs. But can’t many things be determined and fixed before construction starts so that the extra costs afterwards are minimal??
You’re not doing that now either. Where should the buffer be with max. 300,000?
Many things at the beginning, like earthworks, are not calculable – whether with solid or prefab house providers. Also economically, from the entrepreneur’s side, it still counts to sell the product. I have never experienced that a new car costs or consumes only what the salesperson told me.
And naively overlooking the word “bauseits,” or simply believing
I’ll just do the painting and flooring myself... costs nothing then... is already contained in your question. In that respect, you can answer it yourself
if we had built solid, we would have had to choose every tile, every door, the floor coverings ourselves. Check lots of hardware stores, etc.
this way we just went once to the manufacturer’s central office, chose bricks, gutters, windows, floor, bathroom, kitchen, simply everything and were done in 3 hours. Greetings
Whether solid builder or prefab house: every company has its strategy and corporate philosophy: one offers its customers a center where you have to... uh, may sample within a few hours. Others offer their customers greater variety, but with a greater time factor and effort.
Our general contractor built solid for us and we chose most things at the sales table in two hours.
I was glad for tiles that I didn’t have to follow the mainstream taste and choose from only 10/20 tiles, but had the wide range in northern Germany...
how long did you take to build the house?
around here some build solid and some with prefab houses.
the initial time was roughly the same.
why aren’t the prefab houses and the solid ones ready?
How do you want to know that? The planning and manufacturing time is longer with prefab houses; solid houses have long since started by then. But the shell construction takes longer for solid houses.
One prefab manufacturer installs the sockets already in the factory hall; the other company also does that on site. One general contractor puts value on a soil survey, which takes time; another company does not.
With one, the permit takes longer, with another not.
But none of that has anything to do with manufacturing.
The house that is assembled in two days has already waited a year on paper...
we got countless offers, also from solid construction companies, it was the only company that could tell us exactly down to the cent what the final cost would be.
Even with a turnkey offer, a sum appears at the bottom right that goes to the entrepreneur.
What one spends in a three-hour sampling can be spread over a longer time with a solid house. It doesn’t matter whether you spend 5,000€ on electricity in the second hour of sampling or arrange it with the electrician on site in the fourth month of construction.
Difference: with short sampling and factory production of all finishing parts, you are tied to the company’s mostly inflated prices.
With decisions on site, direct haggling with the craftsman can lead to better prices; however, there is the risk that the saved money gets spent again.
so the point that it is cheaper is right for me because with others I would have only seen it at the end.
Just because you have no further expenses to calculate doesn’t mean it ends up cheaper.
Every provider can take any service from you for a fee – whether you want to be milked for every trifle is up to each individual.
Those who cannot calculate and break out in cold sweat at the thought of additional sums or further items should have everything done from a single source. But that does not automatically make it cheaper.