Warranty and movable goods

A refrigerator is as movable as a piano. Items are movable if they can be removed without significant damage to the property on which they are located. Accordingly, refrigerators, including built-in refrigerators, are movable items. Permanently installed pipes in the house are not movable items, just like the house itself.

I already said it above. Movable items are those that do not go under the hammer at the notary during a sale. This includes, as mentioned, the kitchen or furniture, but not the interior doors. A heating system is also not a movable item, as it clearly belongs to the house.

You can also make it easy and simply ask the general contractor where they only want to give 2 years of warranty.

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All physical objects that are not land or components of land are referred to as movable items.

The house clearly belongs to the land (see land register). Therefore, everything that directly belongs to the house is to be considered as an immovable item. Everything that is marked with the property tax at the end in a notarized sale belongs to the house.

Many people have given their definitions here, but is there a legally binding definition that I can look up?

See the Federal Building Code. This is where property law is regulated. What you are looking for is defined in paragraphs §§94 ff. [Baugesetzbuch].

I could imagine 2 years, for example, for the SAT receiver supplied by the general contractor. This could possibly also apply to the SAT dish as opposed to the cabling.

Then this is a matter of interpretation by the general contractor, and as the client, you are dependent on them. The general contractor can define everything except the walls as "movable"!!! How is a central ventilation or heat air pump heating system treated? 2 years or 5 years warranty?

This is by no means at the discretion of the general contractor! Sections 93/94 of the Building Code clearly regulate what belongs to the house and what does not.

For the ventilation and heating systems, the devices are of course subject to the 5-year warranty; but not the maintenance-intensive accessories.

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