You would have to find someone who finished in similar weather ... we finished in February and installed the kitchen immediately because the values matched ...
Can’t you go inside the house in the meantime or what?
Yes, yes, we have a key for the temporary door. We can go in anytime. I just don’t know if I trust my assessment of the values. But if we get a summer like last year, that can only work in our favor.
Handover was on 8.10, 4 days later we moved in. But with controlled residential ventilation, for that
we lived 1.5 months without a kitchen, the measuring company insisted that the tiles be laid.
What exactly does controlled residential ventilation mean?
We are getting full vinyl flooring in the kitchen (together with the living room), but the general contractor is doing that. So we will get the house handed over anyway when the vinyl is already laid there.
Completely apart from the humidity (which can possibly be reduced a bit more with a construction dryer.)
Don’t schedule too tightly timewise, something can always come up. (Construction halt / insolvency of a subcontractor / corona).
With the current order situation, even a general contractor can’t quickly get a replacement if a subcontractor fails.
If the apartment is terminated and you have to move out even though the house isn’t finished yet, you have a problem.
Yes, we would terminate the rental house at the latest possible date. I also personally assume that in the worst case we could extend by a month, because I suspect the landlord will want to do some work here first once we’re out before he rents it again. The carpet on the upper floor was already pretty worn when I moved in, and I’ve lived here for 9 years. The parquet probably also needs sanding, etc. – but of course I wouldn’t count on that. We will terminate with a one-month delay anyway. So the handover is supposed to be mid-September, we plan to terminate at the end of October.
Construction start end of February/beginning of March, screed + interior plaster sometime in June. Kitchen arrived in September, floor was partially laid by then. Humidity was OK, no mold. However, the controlled residential ventilation still removed quite a lot of condensation over the following 2 winters.
That’s quite similar to us, we also started in March.
I spoke again with the site manager today, he also said that installing the kitchen immediately after handover is no problem, it usually isn’t mounted PRESS against the wall anyway.