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Architects including site management, who has known his regional trades for years. It runs smoothly and the willingness to make corrections is high.

I also find the naive approach of many builders quite alarming.

We also had individual contract awarding and I actually read up on expert knowledge for every trade, had our construction engineer explain everything to me in detail, and was on the construction site every day talking to the craftsmen. Anything that wasn’t clear to me or if I had doubts, I questioned it.

Not everything runs smoothly, but if you’re not present and don’t supervise, you won’t notice it and will have trouble afterwards.

Our plasterer had insulated one side of the house, started on the second side, then ran out of material.

The reordered insulation was 2 cm thinner.

He put Styrodur underneath so that at the wall where the thicker insulation had already been applied, it wouldn’t be noticeable, and he nicely covered the sides with plaster.

We looked at the new insulation in the evening and noticed that something was wrong.

Then we went up on the scaffolding and discovered the Styrodur. Actually, everything looked great.

There was an immediate stop to the construction.

In the end, the plasterer had to tear everything down and redo it.

Of course, he didn’t want to screw us over; insulation is insulation after all. And his workers were furious. But I didn’t care.

I simply believe that if you put so much money into something, you have to get involved yourself.

And if you’re not an expert, you have to get an independent companion involved.

Architects including construction management, who has known his regional trades for years. It runs smoothly and the willingness to make corrections is high.