ᐅ How many square meters can you get for a turnkey KfW40 house with a €150,000 budget?

Additional construction costs were not 20,000 for us; they apparently vary greatly depending on local conditions and utility providers. As far as possible, I would always agree on a fixed price for earthworks and foundation work in the contract with the general contractor.

Caspar2020 schrieb:
Construction site toilet 🙂

Did you really have to arrange that yourself? On our site, the construction site setup was included.

The financial benefit of doing work yourself is generally greatly overestimated... what do you actually save, just the labor hours? And as I learned today, the construction site pays a minimum wage of about 12 euros (~$13) for unskilled workers... you can’t really value it higher than that, so everyone can calculate for themselves how much they truly save.

If the materials are more expensive because you can’t buy in bulk, it turns into a zero-sum game.

On the topic:
there’s a provider whose name includes the words house, solid (or massive), and team, offering something for €114,000 (~$125,000). How realistic that is, I don’t know.

Egon12 schrieb:
Did you really have to arrange that yourself? On our site, site facilities were included

No. In the higher-priced options, this was usually included. But there were also some more affordable prefab house companies where it was not included.

Either way, you have to pay for it.

Egon12 schrieb:
The financial benefit of doing the work yourself is generally overestimated... what do you actually save, just the labor hours, and as I learned today, the construction has a minimum wage for unskilled workers of about 12 euros (~$13) per hour... you can’t apply more than that, so everyone can calculate for themselves how much they really save.

I see it a bit differently. Yes, the labor hours are one factor (and usually you should count at least double the time for self-performed work).

In particular, for certain trades like plumbing and electrical work, the material prices are often heavily marked up. For others, like paving, landscaping, or drywall work, less so.

You can still save a good amount there.

I have a very different view on doing your own work. You can’t seriously calculate with 12 euros per hour. Maybe a subcontractor gets 12 euros from their employer, but you are paying 40–50 euros net plus tax.

We saved over €100,000 through self-performance. The effort was about 1,000 hours from family and friends, and around 2,500 hours from my partner and me.

@Caspar2020

Thanks, I made a mistake there... it's all a bit confusing here [emoji848]

That's how it is, the craftsman receives 12 euros,
but the actual hourly wage for a typical construction company starts at around 35 euros per hour, which the company has to calculate with.