ᐅ Building an End-Terrace House as a Self-Managed Project with a General Contractor
Created on: 27 May 2019 10:48
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goalkeeper
Hello everyone,
some of you might have already followed one of my threads about us having to or being allowed to build our end-terrace house on our own responsibility – depending on how you look at it. This means that we are buying an end-terrace plot (215 sqm (2315 sq ft)) in a new development area in the Rhein-Neckar district and will be building on it ourselves – but in coordination with our two terrace neighbors.
The municipality, which sold the plots through a local resident model, ideally wanted applicants to apply as a complete housing group with several families and then build accordingly with a general contractor, construction manager, or architect. Of course, that didn’t really work out, so now there are only individual applicants and also homeowners.
After we were awarded the plot, the addresses of the other terrace neighbors were shared to discuss certain matters, such as roof style, whether or not to have a basement, etc. It was immediately clear that everyone preferred to do their own thing. However, we were still able to agree that the housing group will have a gable roof with a pitch of 35 to 40 degrees (within this 5-degree range).
As the end house, we will build without a basement, while the middle house and the other end house will have basements. This obviously presents a challenge as we would have to make a deep foundation or simply skip it, and the middle house would have to support us, as we will start construction first. The current agreement with the middle house is that we will build a deeper foundation at his expense, as supporting our house later on would be considerably more expensive for him.
We are currently close to signing with the construction manager, the notarization appointment for the plot is at the end of June, and we hope to start construction in the fall of this year. Meanwhile, several other freely planned housing groups are being built around us, which might get in the way with their cranes.
I will document the progress here from time to time – such a self-planned terraced house doesn’t come along very often.
some of you might have already followed one of my threads about us having to or being allowed to build our end-terrace house on our own responsibility – depending on how you look at it. This means that we are buying an end-terrace plot (215 sqm (2315 sq ft)) in a new development area in the Rhein-Neckar district and will be building on it ourselves – but in coordination with our two terrace neighbors.
The municipality, which sold the plots through a local resident model, ideally wanted applicants to apply as a complete housing group with several families and then build accordingly with a general contractor, construction manager, or architect. Of course, that didn’t really work out, so now there are only individual applicants and also homeowners.
After we were awarded the plot, the addresses of the other terrace neighbors were shared to discuss certain matters, such as roof style, whether or not to have a basement, etc. It was immediately clear that everyone preferred to do their own thing. However, we were still able to agree that the housing group will have a gable roof with a pitch of 35 to 40 degrees (within this 5-degree range).
As the end house, we will build without a basement, while the middle house and the other end house will have basements. This obviously presents a challenge as we would have to make a deep foundation or simply skip it, and the middle house would have to support us, as we will start construction first. The current agreement with the middle house is that we will build a deeper foundation at his expense, as supporting our house later on would be considerably more expensive for him.
We are currently close to signing with the construction manager, the notarization appointment for the plot is at the end of June, and we hope to start construction in the fall of this year. Meanwhile, several other freely planned housing groups are being built around us, which might get in the way with their cranes.
I will document the progress here from time to time – such a self-planned terraced house doesn’t come along very often.
I would also prefer the option of stairs going down, as building up is likely to be difficult as long as nothing is happening next door. An alternative would be a "balcony," meaning a 1.50m (5 feet) high platform. However, securely installing that is more complex and expensive than the option with stairs.
Climbee schrieb:
For parking spaces, a compacted surface is initially sufficient so that two cars can be parked on the property, In this case, definitely not. What you describe might generally apply as a universal rule, but only for basic, temporary setups where the surface ends up being a rough, uneven track—almost at the final height for a prefabricated structure. Then, the cars remain temporarily about 8cm (3 inches) lower due to the thickness of the paving stones plus the sub-base. However, in this specific situation, at least L-shaped curb stones and additional reinforcements against the viscosity of a 1.5-meter (5-foot) high rain-soaked soil mass are needed to prevent the cars from sliding away like in an avalanche (or like over a collapsed mine). This is a completely different matter—also considering the potential for neglect or careless handling.
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11ant schrieb:
Joker. It’s not about waiting for a perfect bloom, it’s about mud in front of the patio door, or more precisely, mud on a one-and-a-half meter (5 feet) slope right in front of the patio door. If it were a detached neighboring house, that would be a private matter, but in a row house it seriously disrupts the neighborly balance. No offense, but how many new housing developments have you lived in?
I can tell you from experience that everyone would like to build at the same time and immediately start on the landscaping afterwards, but no one can guarantee that.
For example, we had to wait for an adjoining neighbor ourselves. I could have installed the fence on my own, but then I would have had to pay for all of it myself. And if the neighbor had wanted to put a garage right on the boundary, we’d probably have had to do it again. So you just don’t, or at least we didn’t.
A path to the front door can also be constructed temporarily and has nothing to do with boundary design. There’s also nothing wrong with completing all the earthworks except for the last half meter (1.5 feet), which you can slope gently and wait to see how the neighbor positions themselves. The terrace, etc., can still be done. That’s how we did it, and we’ve seen it done many times in that development and among friends.
Usually, the road construction comes last, but that doesn’t stop anyone from putting in a driveway. It can be adjusted after the road is finished, and then the job is done.
guckuck2 schrieb:
No offense, but how many newly developed residential areas have you lived in? Never in Schilda. The shoulder-high tidal difference between the raw and finished ground introduces a whole new level of complexity to what is usually a much less dramatic issue.
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Here we already have a special situation.
The advantage is that the front area could actually be separated from the rear area, because the middle house starts at least 2 m (6.5 ft) further back.
The problem is that everything is going well with Goalkeeper at the moment, and as far as I can see, the move-in will happen sometime in early summer.
The middle builder is currently making plans and doesn’t even have a shell contractor yet. However, they are not waiting for orders right now; usually, their order books for 2020 are already full by now. So, for me, it’s really questionable whether the middle builder will even get started before the end of the year.
The advantage is that the front area could actually be separated from the rear area, because the middle house starts at least 2 m (6.5 ft) further back.
The problem is that everything is going well with Goalkeeper at the moment, and as far as I can see, the move-in will happen sometime in early summer.
The middle builder is currently making plans and doesn’t even have a shell contractor yet. However, they are not waiting for orders right now; usually, their order books for 2020 are already full by now. So, for me, it’s really questionable whether the middle builder will even get started before the end of the year.
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