Uncertainties regarding size, planning itself is so far completed

And which ones are there? Double casement windows and dormers are not highlights, but normal components of the gable roof... I'm not even talking about the captain's house or similar.

So you build a house with a larger floor area and intentionally with sloping roofs to get the same living space as a full-story house. Respect, so you have money to throw away.
Do you know how living space is calculated?
Have you ever tried to buy a wardrobe with a sloping roof? Of course, it's cheaper because wood is missing.. hope you recognize the irony

In New Rhine dialect: haven’t you got the point here by bleating around like that?
I know how living space is calculated, and even with sloping roofs upstairs, there is enough space everywhere for wardrobes and such thanks to planning.
And otherwise yes, I built bigger and with slopes for that. Building a house is so expensive, then it should also be the way I like it. And of course, without building a house one would have something "to throw away," because that is luxury.

Dormers were unfortunately no longer possible for us. For the double casement windows, we should have chosen triple glazing - now water condenses when it is below freezing - oh well. They provide more than enough light - but it's only a utility room and bathroom.

Hello,


You, as a businessman, should know that in price calculation there is a difference between pure trading of goods and manufacturing industry. Your cost accounting is set way too low. It should include material purchase, production, and profit; possibly discounts/cash discounts. Apart from the fact that these costs vary nationwide.

That is why I took unit prices as final prices, which were given to me by a construction company.

Example: I just had the contract documents of a renowned provider from NRW on my desk for review. With 11.80 x 11.80 m and single-story construction, DN 38°, widening the house by 0.20 m to 12.00 m costs €11,400.00.

I hope you informed your client that he is about to be ripped off badly here?

In my opinion, you are under the mistaken assumption that _your_ taste applies to all builders. Not every builder likes straight walls, not everyone likes slopes. In this respect, it is pointless to write about taste and thus alleged added values; that means something different to every person.

So to pick up the current topic again. In building areas here, where much or everything is allowed, roof slopes are almost never built. Either two full floors without slopes or a bungalow without slopes. Roof slopes are almost only built where they have to be built. As has been shown here several times, you hardly save any money by using a few bricks less and if dormer gables or similar are added, it may even become more expensive.

Likewise, hardly anyone builds a flat roof if they don’t have to, at least not here, where it is often permitted. The hipped roof is the favorite, but there are also building areas where flat roofs are mandatory and well, they often look poor. It must be said that the houses are often just blocks without roofs and not such elegant Bauhaus-like projects with projections, recesses, terraces, color design, etc.

The shoebox is and remains practical - at least on paper.
You can argue about the appearance - square floor plans are often difficult.
It does have a certain fashionable component. Without any frills or an accent in orange, Tuscan yellow or pink, you could chase me away with it.
With interesting facade design, brickwork, inviting entrance or cantilever, etc., I don’t find it all that bad.
Even plain city villas can be designed interestingly with a nice rock garden, a carport, a harmonious terrace, etc.
Take a look at the [Hausbilder Thread], there are some quite interesting examples in there.

Grym I have to disagree with you. There are 12 buildings in the construction area and all roof types are represented, 5 have no forced roof slopes in the upper floor, there are flat roofs twice. Everything is allowed.