Prefabricated house in solid construction - Which construction company

Water into the wine, architect is great. A standard 08-15 house, four rooms, 120 sqm, carport, Braas Harzer Pfanne, square windows, bathroom, toilet, heating is definitely too expensive here in SH with the architect. He charges too much fee, also has interests, e.g. to put his face in the house, his aesthetics, his fee, which is based on the construction costs, not to be too low, so rather something more noble than just plain. Participation in architect tenders leaves much to be desired. Many companies don’t submit or ask for overpriced bids because they neither want construction meetings nor Mr. Hübenbecker’s millimeter fuss. It’s like that here. There are offices here that no longer get craftsmen from the region at a reasonable price because they are considered too complicated. There are also some, admittedly, who do not have this concern because they are a bit closer to the construction milieu. Nevertheless, some construction company owners do the planning themselves, are authorized to provide templates, have a structural engineer at hand who calculates standard simple things cheaply for them, they don’t want to earn with planning but with the house they build. They have colleagues who work with them, you know each other, I build up to here and there, then you come and do the heating, ok, I do it, let’s take this one, it’s ok and affordable, give me 21 for the package with solar and system and the pipes, for 400 I’ll also install two toilets and washbasins for your client, well... a tub is still possible too, you get 30 houses from me a year, great, so let’s do it... And then the client gets an all-inclusive package, simple house, good price, decent work hand in hand, nothing fancy, nothing for House and Country journal, but affordable. An Opel Astra, basically. And many can live well with that. Karsten

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I'll move on to another thread after all... thanks for the attention *embarrassed*

Wasser in den Wein,

For God's sake, no!

TE is not in SH or Lower Saxony, so you cannot see it from your perspective. I agree with you: if a standard house is planned, then it does not have to be an architect's house – you pay more for that than for an off-the-shelf house, which you can change in the floor plan.

In my opinion, it strongly depends on the Faktum of self-performance. The original poster has many craftsmen who will assist him. In shell houses, you can of course remove heating/sanitary installations, but usually for a fee that is quite outrageous. That’s why I suggest involving the architect.

In my area, however, there is a construction company that offers a modular system. They have their own masons and civil engineers. If desired, they also take care of the rest. Or only of certain parts. Or they just build the shell and say goodbye. Just as the customer wishes.

We are building with a construction company (that is, one that has its own craftsmen and excavators, etc.). They do "everything from a single source" at a fixed price, and yet it is stone by stone. The boss is also the architect (advantage: everything from a single source, disadvantage: the architect is not objectively on your side, which would otherwise also be the architect's task). However, you can also purchase an independent construction supervision for a few thousand (e.g., through the Bauherren-Schutzbund) or try to supervise it yourself.

Companies that work heavily with advertising and offer computer-generated houses in the real estate portals or in huge catalogs, in our opinion, are mostly rather cheap in equipment and incredibly expensive with any deviation.

Not every construction company works like this; many also tell you to go to an architect. We contacted about 30-40 companies, some of which offered "everything from a single source" at a fixed price and others declined. Trial makes wise.

The boss is also the architect (advantage: everything from a single source, disadvantage: the architect is not objectively on your side, which would normally also be the architect’s task).

This applies to all architects on the payroll of the house provider, that they are not acting in favor of the client. On the other hand, seen the other way round: an architect who is also a builder plans less complicated (= more expensive / more damage-prone) details.

Trial makes wise.

Which is why there is the saying not to build the first house for yourself