The heating season is open!

Well,
with a bit of luck, we will need 7 months and I already find that borderline long.
If I look at the critical path in a house construction project plan, I come to a minimum construction time of 5 months without a basement and 6 months with a basement. If something goes wrong or the weather is really bad, of course longer, but those should be extreme cases.
Anything over 5 or 6 months is luxury and profit maximization for the contractor or simply sloppiness and poor planning. Either way, really a cheek.

But unfortunately, that's apparently common in construction.... :(

I wish my customers in industry were as patient and powerless as you are as a home builder, then I would have a very relaxed job :D

Best regards,

Andreas

We were told 6 months, possibly a bit longer due to the basement + 2 full floors (3 concrete ceilings). In addition, due to extremely bad weather, there were extra services (pump sump and drying out the excavation pit), light well drainage, and difficult earthworks, additional expert report, geotextile + geogrid. But they really pulled themselves together now, everything looks good at the moment!

For something long-term like house construction, where planning often takes more than 6 months in total (many rather in the years range!), it shouldn't come down to 1-2 months during the construction. Better to do it properly than hastily.

Hi,

I am only talking about the construction time, that is, from the first groundbreaking to moving in. We all know that a lot of preparation is necessary for that...

With something long-term like building a house, where you often plan for a total of more than 6 months (many even in the year range!), it shouldn’t really come down to 1-2 months during construction.

and there is really no reason for it to take longer than 5 or 6 or even 7 months in my case. A little buffer is allowed sometimes, but then it has to be enough.

And of course, the construction time matters to me. It was planned for a long time and now I want to see action. The quality ALWAYS has to be right, which should actually go without saying.
I find it pretty sad what kind of punctuality, quality, and reliability you get in the construction industry... from my professional environment, I’m used to something different and also have to deliver significantly more myself than I am currently offered. In the last 18 months (that’s how long we’ve been dealing with the topic of building a house), I have hardly seen a company in this industry that would have a chance of surviving in the industrial sector with their business conduct.
But that is really off-topic...

Best regards,

Andreas

I simply doubt that, the construction industry is also somehow industry and I know so many large buildings that took longer than planned. You are postulating the 6 months here simply as universally appropriate whether it is true or not. Every construction project is individual and anything beyond absolutely standard can and may take longer.


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We are not in such a hurry; we don't have to move out of the apartment until the end of January. But of course, we are pleased.

I think you have to make a distinction. If everything is well coordinated, there is nothing against a short construction period, but if then everything is rushed to be finished, and the substance suffers as a result.

For example, if we did not get a controlled residential ventilation system, I would have wished for longer drying times.