Which building regulations make new constructions so expensive?

  • Erstellt am 2023-02-20 21:40:49

motorradsilke

2023-02-26 10:14:33
  • #1


Children generally have to look like they need to be hosed down when they come in from playing ;) .
Not everyone has a solid clay or stone floor, there’s also sand.
And getting involved isn’t just about work companies can do. Sometimes watch the kids, be there when a utility provider wants to install a connection, order something together, grill together, etc.…
 

xMisterDx

2023-02-26 10:34:35
  • #2
That may all be true for you, but the situation here is different ;)

But the topic was the high construction costs and they also come from the fact that many people only move into their house once the interior decorator has hung the last curtain and the carpenter has finished the built-in wardrobe.

You can also build a house for less than 3,000 EUR/m². It's just associated with more work for the builder.
 

KarstenausNRW

2023-02-26 16:22:47
  • #3
It only works if you assume the builder's labor at €0/hour or consider the leisure time gained otherwise as worthless. You also have to view any personal health costs that may arise from extensive own work neutrally. But yes, then it can indeed go significantly below €3,000/m².
 

WilderSueden

2023-02-26 16:42:44
  • #4
That also presupposes that one is physically capable. When I look at our neighbors... one is still building half the house himself at 70. But he has also been living in a half-finished house since July and concerning the outdoor facilities, he is already scaling back quite a bit for '23 because of his back. The others of a similar age are already quite frail, so there is absolutely no doing it yourself.
 

Asuni

2023-02-27 09:53:58
  • #5


I can’t speak for new builds, as I have never built new. But for existing buildings, the topic of "heating replacement" is certainly a hot issue considering the wishes and goals of the current government. The simple and reasonably affordable replacement of a condensing boiler is supposed to be more or less prohibited within the next 2 years—if I have understood everything correctly—and "only" allowed in combination with a unit that uses renewable energy (e.g., solar thermal or heat pump).

For the average existing homeowner, it is a big difference whether "only" a gas boiler needs to be replaced (which every homeowner should be able to finance somehow) or a significantly more complex heating system that requires much deeper interventions into the technical infrastructure of the house or for which the house must first be upgraded and financed. We are talking about costs on a completely different scale, and honestly, it is an absolute mystery to me how this is supposed to be feasible for the masses.
 

xMisterDx

2023-02-27 10:08:12
  • #6


You can always construct extreme cases. Seventy-year-olds certainly won’t make up the largest proportion in new construction; around me, it’s actually almost exclusively families in their early to late 30s who are building. And for my part, I can say that the own contribution is a nice physical change from my job, in which I sit a lot and sometimes even sit awkwardly on a cable drum in a not exactly ergonomic posture.

And honestly... anyone who at 40 is already physically unable to dig a shaft for their rainwater pipe or can’t paint walls/install flooring... then it would be urgently advisable to get fit physically for that. Otherwise, things go downhill fast and at 50 you won’t be able to climb stairs anymore...

Those who don’t want that and call in the excavation company, which digs for one day and charges 1,500 EUR. Okay. But then you shouldn’t claim that building is incredibly expensive, 3,500 EUR/m² minimum, etc. It’s not... the demands have just risen massively.
 
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