ᐅ The heating season has begun!

Well,
with some luck, we’ll need about 7 months, which I already find borderline too long.
Looking at the critical path in a house construction project plan, I estimate a minimum build time of 5 months without a basement and 6 months with a basement. If something goes wrong or the weather doesn’t cooperate, obviously it will take longer, but those should be extreme cases.
Anything beyond 5 or 6 months is either a luxury and profit optimization for the contractor or simply carelessness and poor planning. Either way, it’s really quite unacceptable.

Unfortunately, it seems to be common practice in construction... 🙁

I wish my clients in the industry were as patient and powerless as home builders often are, then I would have a very relaxed job 😀


Best regards,

Andreas

We were told it would take 6 months, possibly a bit longer due to the basement plus 2 full floors (3 concrete slabs). On top of that, additional work was needed because of extremely bad weather (pump sump and drying out the excavation pit), light well drainage, difficult earthworks, an extra survey, geotextile, and geogrid.

But they have really put in the effort now, and everything looks good so far!

For a long-term project like building a house, where planning often takes more than 6 months in total (for many, even years!), a difference of 1-2 months in construction time should not be critical. It is better to be thorough than rushed.

Hi,

I’m only talking about the construction period here, from the groundbreaking to moving in. We all know that a lot of preparation is needed beforehand...

Saruss schrieb:
For something as long-term as building a house, which is often planned for more than 6 months in total (many even plan for years!), a difference of 1-2 months in construction time shouldn’t matter.

And there really is no reason for it to take longer than 5 or 6, or for me even 7 months. Having a bit of buffer time is fine once in a while, but then it should be enough.

And of course, the construction period matters to me. The planning has taken a long time, and now I want to see results. The quality ALWAYS has to be right, that should go without saying.
I find it quite sad what kind of punctuality, quality, and reliability the construction industry delivers… coming from my professional background, I’m used to very different standards and I have to deliver much more myself than what I’m currently being offered. In the past 18 months (that’s how long we’ve been dealing with the topic of building a house), I have hardly seen any company in this industry that would stand a chance to survive in the industrial sector with their way of doing business.
But that’s really off-topic now...

Best regards,
Andreas

I simply doubt that, since the construction industry is also a form of manufacturing, and I know many large buildings that took longer than planned. You are stating the 6 months here as a generally appropriate duration, whether that is accurate or not. Every construction project is unique, and anything beyond an absolute standard can and should take longer.

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We are not in a hurry; we don’t have to move out of the apartment until the end of January. But of course, we are happy about it.

I think you have to make a distinction. If everything is well coordinated, there is no problem with a short construction period, but if things are rushed to finish quickly and the quality suffers as a result.

For example, if we didn’t have a mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery, I would have preferred longer drying times.