Who asks the builders also gets an answer

May I guess, you are the boss in the company and have to take your incompetent colleagues by the hand

I am an employee without personnel responsibility. Other people would describe me as a very calm, kind-hearted, and lovely person. Sometimes I still have to show my ID at the checkout to buy alcohol. (I am 30) Maybe the craftsmen don’t see me as a serious contact person.

I don’t know, but we are already so far along with the house construction, in the end it worked out. With highs and many lows. The result so far is great for us.

What has a positive impact with us is that the craftsmen know each other. Each trade is a different company. The general contractor also works with various companies. However, they all come more or less around the church tower and know each other.

Our house is solid wood and apart from the walls, the prefabrication level is like the classic stone on stone. Nevertheless, a factory plan showing the sanitary and ventilation was hanging on every floor.
The electrical planning was partially changed on site with the electrician.

I would not have wanted to do the exact scheduling. I'm too much a layman for that. For example:
Why didn’t you lay the ventilation duct in the bedroom? The painter is coming tomorrow and will do the cladding so that he doesn’t stand on the duct. It shouldn’t be that Hubert with his three hundred kilos stands on it. He’s also doing the hallway right away. He doesn’t have to be careful not to injure his foot there; you can hardly walk when I’m done.
I would have just scheduled trade 1 first, then trade 2.
Here comes 1, then 2, then 1, then 5 for 30 minutes. Because it makes sense.

For example, when the screed is poured, a cardboard sign hangs on the door.
Do not enter, fresh screed
Xyz
Or a barrier in the door

Oh... some points seem VERY familiar to me. Primarily, the “don’t give a damn” feeling or nonsense-doesn’t-matter attitude, or whatever you want to call it, from some craftsmen.

We are building with an architect who also lives NEXT to our construction site and has his office there. The guys on the site would basically only have to shout out loud, then he could hear it from the office. Overall, things are going very slowly for us (there are many reasons: tight construction site conditions because two buildings are being built at the same time on a dead-end street, for example), so we already started planning two years ago, and the foundation slab was done last March. To put it mildly, I’m getting pretty fed up :D After the last construction (this is not the first time we’re doing it), I always said: if a build runs as smoothly as the last one, I’ll do it five more times. Now I have to revise my opinion: NEVER AGAIN :D

Well. The time will eventually pass, but until then I will probably still get annoyed by some craftsmen (at the moment, the electricians are my favorites). Unfortunately, they are really going over the top. They all have our cell phone numbers—thanks to the architect’s shouting range—and none of them get back to us with questions. They just “do something” – but unfortunately it’s far from done correctly. Plus, that attitude: I don’t care – it’s not my money!

But: EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE (hopefully someday :D )

I am an employee without personnel responsibility. Other people would describe me as a very calm, kind-hearted, and loving person. Sometimes I still have to show my ID at the checkout to buy alcohol. (I am 30) Maybe the craftsmen don't see me as a serious contact person.

I don't know, but we are already this far along in the house construction, in the end it worked out. With highs and many lows. The result so far is great for us.

Well then, you seem to be a bit more sensitive about the house... Our site manager (employed by the general contractor) partly pointed out things to us that we would never have noticed otherwise.

Sometimes it's better not to know anything^^

We are building with an architect who also lives NEXT TO the construction site and has his office there as well. The guys on the construction site would actually only have to shout loudly, then he could hear it from the office.

I never came to school late so often as when we lived on the same street ;-)