ᐅ Building a House Independently – Our Great Experience Report!
Created on: 4 Oct 2018 15:46
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Selbstbau
Hello Forum,
I would like to give you a brief insight into our house construction, which I believe has become quite rare nowadays... We built the house ourselves!
Me: trained bricklayer (switched to a new profession at 22 due to health reasons)
Father: trained bricklayer (worked for the local building authority for the last 15 years)
Construction site: Baden-Württemberg, south of Ulm (rural area)
Start of construction: February 2017
Move-in: April 2018
Single-family house (hollow brick 42.5cm without insulation) 186 sqm (2002 sq ft), gable roof with dormer, double garage with basement, 8m x 8m (26 ft x 26 ft). Architect’s cost estimate: €480,000
Our own cost calculation: approx. €280,000
(of course, after some quick research on prices for various trades)
Labor input: homeowner 1600 hours, my wife 250 hours, father 1050 hours, friends about 400 hours.
(Productivity with friends was lower since we spent more time chatting than working 😀 Still, it was a really great time together!)
Six months after moving in, (hopefully) all invoices are settled. We paid about €273,000 for the house and the double garage with basement. Including kitchen, furniture, lamps, and all the little extras, we ended up around €350,000. The yard is finished at 180 sqm (1938 sq ft), terrace 50 sqm (538 sq ft) completed. I have already mowed the lawn four times (thanks to well water during the dry summer) 🙂 Garden landscaping will be tackled in spring 😀
It was a very, truly very stressful and exhausting year.
Would I do it again? A clear YES! Building is simply awesome 😀
PS: Is there interest in the detailed cost breakdown?
I would like to give you a brief insight into our house construction, which I believe has become quite rare nowadays... We built the house ourselves!
Me: trained bricklayer (switched to a new profession at 22 due to health reasons)
Father: trained bricklayer (worked for the local building authority for the last 15 years)
Construction site: Baden-Württemberg, south of Ulm (rural area)
Start of construction: February 2017
Move-in: April 2018
Single-family house (hollow brick 42.5cm without insulation) 186 sqm (2002 sq ft), gable roof with dormer, double garage with basement, 8m x 8m (26 ft x 26 ft). Architect’s cost estimate: €480,000
Our own cost calculation: approx. €280,000
(of course, after some quick research on prices for various trades)
Labor input: homeowner 1600 hours, my wife 250 hours, father 1050 hours, friends about 400 hours.
(Productivity with friends was lower since we spent more time chatting than working 😀 Still, it was a really great time together!)
Six months after moving in, (hopefully) all invoices are settled. We paid about €273,000 for the house and the double garage with basement. Including kitchen, furniture, lamps, and all the little extras, we ended up around €350,000. The yard is finished at 180 sqm (1938 sq ft), terrace 50 sqm (538 sq ft) completed. I have already mowed the lawn four times (thanks to well water during the dry summer) 🙂 Garden landscaping will be tackled in spring 😀
It was a very, truly very stressful and exhausting year.
Would I do it again? A clear YES! Building is simply awesome 😀
PS: Is there interest in the detailed cost breakdown?
S
Selbstbau5 Oct 2018 08:13hanse987 schrieb:
What kind of climate ceiling do you have listed? My wife suffers from a nerve ending disorder, so she feels painful warmth on her feet (even when the underfloor heating is barely noticeable). That’s why, at least for the ground floor area where we spend 90% of our time, we needed an alternative. The climate ceiling, according to the manufacturers, works through radiant heat. The supply temperature is exactly the same as for the underfloor heating on the upper floor. What can I say... it works. 🙂
The heating system was commissioned in early January.
Nicki21 schrieb:
I’m interested in a cost breakdown I attached it earlier in the thread.
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HilfeHilfe6 Oct 2018 13:43Very good, of course advantages through friends and family. That used to be more common. My father also built 4 houses himself.