What cost you the most nerves during the house construction?

It certainly depends on the individual case, but with the bird you wait until the brood is there, possibly relocate it (see the example of the frog). With the archaeologist you wait months until he even shows up, then more months until he leaves again. This period is additionally unpredictable. Plus, he costs money, the bird hardly or not at all. Compared to that, the dud is easy, it's cleared in a few weeks and costs you nothing.

Is the latter really like that? Just a few years ago you had to pay for that yourself. And not a little.

Is the latter the case? A few years ago you still had to pay for it yourself. And not a little.

At least for NRW I can say that this is the case. The owner only incurs preparatory measures such as clearing and grading the terrain. But these are no or hardly any additional costs.

Not in BW. And 19 weeks processing time is not exactly little either

House connections were a difficult topic. Otherwise, the floor plan for a hillside house cost us the most nerves and time (2 years for the planning). But it was more than worth it. Patterning was also exhausting, as we already had offspring at that time. We had tremendous respect before the earthworks, but everything went smoothly there too and the costs were within the budget.

And just don’t start with Telekom. >Applied over the builders' portal more than a year in advance. With a lot of persuasion, we got an "emergency appointment" for a technician to connect the TAE socket on moving-in day. If you don’t call every few weeks to ask where the application is, nothing seems to happen.

I absolutely can’t confirm that :D

Three days ago I got a call from a lady with a Hanover area code, saying that our house connection was ready and asking if I wanted to book a tariff/move..

I was totally surprised, because I had neither arranged an appointment with them nor let them into the house. When I asked if she was sure it was our house, we compared all the details and she then named our civil engineering company, with whom they supposedly had coordinated :D :D

So it can also work differently!

What’s currently really annoying me, because it’s genuinely frustrating, is the constant failure of the construction dryers.

One of them in the ground floor always breaks down. The company that set up the dryers can’t explain it, because electrically everything is fine, and no fuses are tripping or anything like that. When you plug the device back in, it works again. Totally annoying, because by now we are checking the house 5-6 times a day.