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.
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goalkeeper13 Sep 2020 19:16Scout schrieb:
Are you leaving the Pax that open? Then the 5mm (0.2 inch) caps from Hettich would definitely be worth considering as well, as they can make the unused holes for the shelf supports relatively "invisible."Good idea – however, for Pax there are the Ikea VARIERA caps available for €0.99 / 100 pieces. We will take those with us on our next shopping trip.
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goalkeeper14 Sep 2020 08:46And today, our guest bathroom.
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goalkeeper16 Sep 2020 14:00This morning was the settlement hearing, which fortunately did not lead to a main court hearing... As of today.
Before the hearing began, we had already agreed on several points under which we would lift the preliminary injunction and agree to the underpinning.
For example, this included commissioning a new geological survey specifically focusing on the underpinning, which had not yet been done. The structural engineer had designed the underpinning without a soil investigation – this was more than negligent – the judge shared this opinion. It will also be examined whether the underpinning should follow DIN standards or perhaps another method (such as injection processes) that carries the lowest risk of settlement.
The most important point for us: we will now choose the company to carry out the underpinning of our house, since we no longer trust the other party to perform the work properly. If carried out according to DIN, our general contractor (GC) might be able to do it – if, of course, he agrees. This still needs to be discussed. Additionally, a condition survey will be conducted by an expert both before and after the work to document the current state of our house in case any cracks occur.
All costs, including those of the entire legal process, are to be borne by the neighbor.
A few matters still need to be clarified before the out-of-court settlement becomes effective. Until then, these are just mutual verbal commitments. Otherwise, the case will proceed to the main hearing, which we all want to avoid, as the neighbor will never win and it would only cost us more time.
Before the hearing began, we had already agreed on several points under which we would lift the preliminary injunction and agree to the underpinning.
For example, this included commissioning a new geological survey specifically focusing on the underpinning, which had not yet been done. The structural engineer had designed the underpinning without a soil investigation – this was more than negligent – the judge shared this opinion. It will also be examined whether the underpinning should follow DIN standards or perhaps another method (such as injection processes) that carries the lowest risk of settlement.
The most important point for us: we will now choose the company to carry out the underpinning of our house, since we no longer trust the other party to perform the work properly. If carried out according to DIN, our general contractor (GC) might be able to do it – if, of course, he agrees. This still needs to be discussed. Additionally, a condition survey will be conducted by an expert both before and after the work to document the current state of our house in case any cracks occur.
All costs, including those of the entire legal process, are to be borne by the neighbor.
A few matters still need to be clarified before the out-of-court settlement becomes effective. Until then, these are just mutual verbal commitments. Otherwise, the case will proceed to the main hearing, which we all want to avoid, as the neighbor will never win and it would only cost us more time.
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UpperEast16 Sep 2020 14:04How high are those extra costs that the neighbor has brought upon themselves?
goalkeeper schrieb:
If carried out according to DIN standards, our general contractor might possibly do it – provided they are willing, of course. This still needs to be discussed. I wish you that, as it would probably be helpful to have less complexity in case of a warranty issue.
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