ᐅ Hiring trades separately or using a general contractor / turnkey solution?
Created on: 1 Feb 2022 09:07
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Elias_dee
Hello everyone,
What would you recommend for our situation? We are currently renting and have purchased a plot of land about 50 minutes away in another town, where we want to build a single-family house. Our architect lives just a few minutes from us (so also in our current town, not the new one).
I have already contacted about 10 companies from the area near the future construction site. Only two of them could build as general contractors on a turnkey basis, and they only have availability at the end of the year. I would actually prefer this because a) we don’t have much experience with building projects, b) the architect cannot supervise construction, and c) we cannot be on site every week. However, first of all, there aren’t many companies currently able to build this way for us, and secondly, I recently read an article stating that turnkey construction often leads to more defects because there is little control over the subcontractors used.
What would you do in our case? Go with turnkey construction or invest some time to learn about the process and handle everything by requesting and awarding contracts separately?
Thank you very much!
Best regards
What would you recommend for our situation? We are currently renting and have purchased a plot of land about 50 minutes away in another town, where we want to build a single-family house. Our architect lives just a few minutes from us (so also in our current town, not the new one).
I have already contacted about 10 companies from the area near the future construction site. Only two of them could build as general contractors on a turnkey basis, and they only have availability at the end of the year. I would actually prefer this because a) we don’t have much experience with building projects, b) the architect cannot supervise construction, and c) we cannot be on site every week. However, first of all, there aren’t many companies currently able to build this way for us, and secondly, I recently read an article stating that turnkey construction often leads to more defects because there is little control over the subcontractors used.
What would you do in our case? Go with turnkey construction or invest some time to learn about the process and handle everything by requesting and awarding contracts separately?
Thank you very much!
Best regards
Unfortunately, neither of you can send or receive messages yet. More posts are required for that (I’m not sure how many exactly, but I believe it’s 250).
You could create a disposable email address with one of the major providers and briefly share it here to establish contact...
You could create a disposable email address with one of the major providers and briefly share it here to establish contact...
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Elias_dee27 Jun 2022 12:02i_b_n_a_n schrieb:
Unfortunately, neither of you can send or receive messages yet. More posts are required for that (I’m not sure how many exactly, but I think it’s 250).
Just create a disposable email address with one of the major providers and share it here briefly to make contact... What, 250 posts? That’s a strange rule. Thanks anyway for the info.
Is there any reason not to post the construction company here?
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Neubau202227 Jun 2022 12:13Elias_dee schrieb:
What, 250 posts? What kind of strange rule is that? Thanks for the info anyway.
Is there any reason not to post the name of the construction company here?No, not really. The names of construction companies are posted all the time.
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Höhlenbewohner29 Jun 2022 08:21Hello Elias_dee,
too bad the private message isn’t working. Would you be willing to share the name here? Otherwise, please get in touch briefly, and I’ll create a disposable email...
Thanks!
too bad the private message isn’t working. Would you be willing to share the name here? Otherwise, please get in touch briefly, and I’ll create a disposable email...
Thanks!
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