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.
Tolentino schrieb:
That’s really crazy. With my 500 EUR /m² (approximately 46.50 USD /sq ft) on the not quite outermost edge of Berlin, I can already be pretty satisfied...Satisfied might be an understatement: for the same price, Berlin with a neighbor’s right of way versus Schilda with one and a half meters (about 5 feet) of fill—now that’s a difference like the Caribbean compared to Heligoland.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Ybias78 schrieb:
50 km (31 miles) from Berlin (45 minutes by public transport to Alexanderplatz / main train station) bought 2.5 years ago for 40 € per sqm (1,450 sqm) That really does sound like a village.
DASI90 schrieb:
That really does sound like a village.It is. But it has excellent connections to Berlin/Potsdam and is about 2 km (1.2 miles) from the highway.
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goalkeeper19 Sep 2020 20:58Don’t you think this is a bit too off topic?
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goalkeeper25 Sep 2020 14:22It looks like he will go ahead and build after all. The neighbor informed me today that he now plans to set his basement at the same level as our foundation. However, he would have to move it several centimeters (inches) higher, even though he has already reached the full 11m (36 feet) total height allowed in his original building permit / planning permission. He will probably need to submit a new building permit / planning permission.
Let's see how this back-and-forth develops...
Let's see how this back-and-forth develops...
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