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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goalkeeper7 Dec 2019 22:05guckuck2 schrieb:
The shell construction can also proceed quickly. The visible progress enhances this impression.
It is said to take 3 months to complete the sealed shell and another 3 months for the interior finishing. That’s true. It’s still nice to notice that everything is running smoothly. That certainly isn’t a given nowadays, especially when reading here in the forum about the issues some have with certain contractors.
Besides that, as of yesterday, all the interior walls are installed, and the roof is ready for insulation and covering.
The Viebrockhaus has also been laying bricks since the beginning of the week.
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goalkeeper7 Dec 2019 22:40Yosan schrieb:
Does it only look like that, or is construction starting somewhere else (right side of the picture) as well?Yes... the basement has already been excavated there. That will be one of the end houses directly next to the street. The plot is almost 250 m² (2700 sq ft) in size and has the advantage that they have already piled up and gravelled the garden area to place their crane there. This is on the far right of the picture (the photo is already one week old).
In our row of houses, construction has also started next to the Viebrock house on the group of four houses. The large formwork panels for the basement are currently being positioned with an excavator. It’s really very laborious and time-consuming—especially since the two middle houses are building the basement together.
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goalkeeper9 Dec 2019 22:26As planned and on schedule: the windows are being installed starting today.
The front door has now also been ordered: we chose the self-closing model with a transponder keypad.
The front door has now also been ordered: we chose the self-closing model with a transponder keypad.
Why did you choose to have a fixed element at the bottom of the window? The window itself doesn’t seem very large, but with the two sashes and the fixed element, it looks quite small or simply has a lot of frame area relative to the window size.
Other than that, it’s great to see that the construction is going so well, especially considering the city had placed many obstacles in the way.
Other than that, it’s great to see that the construction is going so well, especially considering the city had placed many obstacles in the way.
cschiko schrieb:
Why did you choose a fixed pane at the bottom of the window? What do you want to bet, it’s the kitchen with the countertop behind it? I wish I had thought of that myself; I would have done the same.
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