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.
goalkeeper schrieb:
Exactly – including parts of the terrace dug out on the side (covered with a tarp on the right).Not that you already gave your approval – but did he at least mention something like this beforehand? And was your terrace already paved or otherwise prepared?kbt09 schrieb:
The special problem here is also the minimum size of these plots. I also find the floor area ratio of 0.4 or the plot ratio of 0.5 interesting – how does that work with the middle terraced house?
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goalkeeper14 Aug 2020 09:30Scout schrieb:
Not that you had already given your consent—but did he at least mention something like that in advance? And was your terrace already paved or otherwise prepared?Nothing was mentioned—the excavator operator just said he needed the space to work, and suddenly it was gone.
Of course, we hadn’t done anything in the garden yet, since both neighbors hadn’t built their houses yet—except for some gravel and sand laid down and temporary artificial turf for the kids.
Scout schrieb:
He cannot invoke the right of immediate access since it was done without the required two-week prior notice. Filing a trespassing complaint could be possible. But your lawyer has probably already looked into that. Without an existing enclosure or an explicit prohibition, in my opinion, proving trespassing is difficult.
The right of immediate access is not a "dig up and tear open" right.
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goalkeeper14 Aug 2020 11:14We sent two emails to the neighbors prohibiting them from carrying out any work on our property or any shoring without our consent—lastly about three weeks before excavation—including the structural engineer, architect, and civil engineer, as well as witnesses on the day of excavation.
For this reason, the preliminary injunction was fully granted, as everything is supported by clear evidence.
For this reason, the preliminary injunction was fully granted, as everything is supported by clear evidence.