ᐅ Contracting out individual trades yourself – what savings can this bring?
Created on: 16 Feb 2017 18:47
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When planning our next house, we’re wondering (as a family) whether and how much you could save by contracting the trades yourself and supervising the construction on your own. You definitely need an architect for the documentation and so on, but after managing three houses, you could probably do without a site manager. Right? But how much can you actually save this way, we’re asking ourselves. Fees or percentages weren’t clearly visible on the invoice.
That is also a bit extremely complex
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11ant schrieb:
That is also a bit extremely complex So this would mean that a gable roof house is significantly cheaper than, for example, townhouses with the same specifications?
Take coasters and build a house of cards – then you have a model. A hip roof is basically two intersecting gable roofs. You don’t learn to frame that in your first year of apprenticeship. Enthusiasm for building is also a matter of aesthetics; a 9×9 m (30×30 ft) house with a gable roof looks as plain as it really is—no one will find that inspiring.
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j.bautsch17 Feb 2017 14:11Why? That’s a matter of personal taste, and I have absolutely no problem with a square house with a gable roof. In fact, that’s exactly what I want! I find it attractive, also because a gable roof is more cost-effective. It’s a matter of personal preference.
kaho674 schrieb:
I... timber frame constructionWhy?j.bautsch schrieb:
I have absolutely no problem with a square house with a gable roof.No, the term "matter of taste" is incorrect here; it is more a "matter of perspective"—more precisely, the perspective distortion: a square has the same edge length in both dimensions, but if one side is the eave side and the other the gable side, they appear different. A square floor plan combined with a gable roof visually resembles a rectangular floor plan. Interestingly, depending on the viewing angle and roof pitch, people estimate differently which dimension seems "longer"—but they still perceive them as "unequal."
It only becomes a "matter of taste" when associations influence perception—for example, if the gable roof is linked with being old-fashioned, whereas a hip roof without a ridge (often a symmetrical pyramid roof) is seen as modern.
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