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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goalkeeper15 Dec 2019 21:12The neighbors are gradually catching up.
Winniefred15 Dec 2019 21:13So, how is everything going with you?
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goalkeeper15 Dec 2019 21:39Winniefred schrieb:
How’s everything going with you?Everything is going well so far.
At the beginning of this week, all the windows were installed, the dormer was closed from the side, and the roof tiles were delivered.
Since excellent weather is forecast for next week, the roof will be covered before Christmas.
In the meantime, we are finalizing the details of our kitchen before our kitchen studio places the order with the manufacturer in January/February.
Otherwise, I am currently looking for landscaping and civil engineering contractors (earthwork and paving), an HVAC specialist, and companies for water softening systems. These will be my main tasks for January.
Have you heard any updates from the "Mittelhausbauer"? Judging by the photo, it doesn’t look like it will be an easy job for him. Even setting up the scaffolding for the wall construction will have to be done from the inside, which will make installing the ceiling and additional scaffolding on the upper floor quite complicated. For the recessed section, he might need to place scaffolding on your property as well... hopefully not only when you already want to use your terrace.
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goalkeeper15 Dec 2019 23:18kbt09 schrieb:
Do you have any updates from the "middle house builder"? Looking at the photo, it definitely won’t be an easy job for him. Even the scaffolding for building up the walls will have to be set up inside, and with installing the ceiling and additional scaffolding on the upper floor, it’s going to be quite complex. For the recessed section, he might need to set up scaffolding on your properties... hopefully not only when you want to start using your terraces. Unfortunately, no. About four weeks ago we had a brief contact. At that time, he still didn’t have any submitted plans or anything similar. We, the two end houses, are just going ahead with our own plans.
However, for certain things, we are dependent on when he starts construction. We will be building up the ground next to his foundation or basement wall so that we can install our terraces. Otherwise, we would have to use retaining walls, which he would then have to support from below. The same applies in front of the house if we want to lay paving.
It will certainly be interesting.
goalkeeper schrieb:
The two of us living in end houses will just stick to our plan.My crystal ball doesn’t show when – but I’m quite sure the day will come when you’ll be offered the middle plot as a garden and parking space at such a good price that you won’t hesitate long.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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