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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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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goalkeeper28 Mar 2021 10:41To be honest, not really. The neighbor has now submitted his third notification procedure, which I plan to review at the building authority next week – for whatever reason he did that.
In the meantime, the interim injunction process has been completed – overall, it cost the neighbor almost €4500 (about $4900) – wasn’t that predictable, right? 🙄
Meanwhile, Viebrockhaus is still in dispute with the planner of the middle house regarding the deep foundation. I suspect this might also lead to some problems.
Additionally, according to the interim injunction, he is prohibited from carrying out any construction work on our property. However, he will have to proceed with his basement construction, roof connection, etc. – but don’t expect that he has contacted us about this so far... well... we remain calm and will first arrange for the paving work for the parking spaces in the next few days... the garden will still take a while.
In the meantime, the interim injunction process has been completed – overall, it cost the neighbor almost €4500 (about $4900) – wasn’t that predictable, right? 🙄
Meanwhile, Viebrockhaus is still in dispute with the planner of the middle house regarding the deep foundation. I suspect this might also lead to some problems.
Additionally, according to the interim injunction, he is prohibited from carrying out any construction work on our property. However, he will have to proceed with his basement construction, roof connection, etc. – but don’t expect that he has contacted us about this so far... well... we remain calm and will first arrange for the paving work for the parking spaces in the next few days... the garden will still take a while.
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AllThumbs28 Mar 2021 14:23Thanks for the update. I really can’t figure out what the neighbor is expecting for the future there. They probably won’t be renting it out either, right?
Moving in themselves would definitely not be an option for me, going against all financial losses...
Moving in themselves would definitely not be an option for me, going against all financial losses...
It will work out somehow..
How is the little one doing? A small tip I can give you: prepare the garden so that your child can play outside. We did this step by step and now notice the difference. Our little one can walk and move freely in the garden without us having to worry about them running onto the street or falling down a slope, and so on. Comparing this to the older child when they were 1 year old, oh boy, what a relief :-)
How is the little one doing? A small tip I can give you: prepare the garden so that your child can play outside. We did this step by step and now notice the difference. Our little one can walk and move freely in the garden without us having to worry about them running onto the street or falling down a slope, and so on. Comparing this to the older child when they were 1 year old, oh boy, what a relief :-)
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goalkeeper28 Mar 2021 15:23tomtom79 schrieb:
It will work out somehow..
How is the little one doing? A small tip I can share: get the garden ready enough so your child can play outside. We did it bit by bit and really notice the difference now. Our little one can walk and move freely in the garden without us having to worry about her running onto the street or falling down a slope, etc. Comparing that to our older child when she was one year old — wow, what a luxury 🙂 I can’t prepare the garden because the neighbor has excavated two meters of our terrace, and then it drops about three meters (10 feet) deep. We can’t fill it back in until he has built his basement. Right now, there is only the construction fence, which is quite dangerous for the kids. For that reason, we can only use the garden to a limited extent at the moment.
goalkeeper schrieb:
I can’t finish anything in the garden because the neighbor has excavated two meters (6.5 feet) of our terrace, and from there it drops about three meters (10 feet) deep. In that case, I would have that friendly neighbor pay rent for a replacement garden along with public transport tickets to get there. The right of necessity surely can’t extend so far as to deny a neighbor their garden forever. Six months sounds like the limit of tolerance to me; after that, it should be game over.
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