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.
We also have silver-colored window sills, and I think they don’t really stand out despite the dark window frames.
I would generally advise against dark window sills, even if they don’t scratch: you can see every raindrop and every pollen grain on them. They always look dirty and unkempt. Stick with the silver ones.
I would generally advise against dark window sills, even if they don’t scratch: you can see every raindrop and every pollen grain on them. They always look dirty and unkempt. Stick with the silver ones.
goalkeeper schrieb:
Do you share this opinion?Our house is in its 6th year – the aluminum window sills are not scratched. How could that happen? But we also don’t have any in front of the patio doors; there, the exterior flooring connects directly.
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Wintersonne9 Apr 2020 11:27Climbee schrieb:
We also have silver-colored window sills, and I think they don’t stand out despite the dark window frames.
I would strongly advise against dark-colored window sills, even if they don’t scratch: you can see every raindrop and every pollen grain on them. They always look dirty and unkempt. Stick with silver ones. I also agree that they don’t stand out. From memory, I couldn’t say which neighbors have silver or gray sills with their gray windows.
kaho674 schrieb:
We don't have any – they are too ugly.You don’t have any window sills?https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Winniefred9 Apr 2020 12:48We have anthracite-colored window sills on the outside. I wouldn’t choose them again (they were already installed). You can really see every stain, even from rain. So they are constantly dirty.
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