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.
goalkeeper schrieb:
this is going to get interesting. Many here have already known this fact since this "everyone can do whatever they want" row house concept appeared here for the first time.
goalkeeper schrieb:
which measures we have to tolerate and which we do not What do you have in mind? It will be difficult to forbid him from building the basement.
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goalkeeper16 Apr 2020 22:23MayrCh schrieb:
What do you have in mind? It will be difficult to prevent him from building the basement. That’s not my goal at all. If I felt that we were involved in the planning of the underpinning and that our general contractor could review it, everything would be fine. But casually mentioning it to me like that during a chance meeting is not acceptable.
I will now have to check whether we have the right to require, for example, an inspection of our house by an expert at his expense, or something similar.
He simply doesn’t understand that this is already a major intervention on our property and house. I had given him every opportunity to resolve the matter reasonably, for example when I suggested a deeper foundation to his later basement depth before we started construction—no response.
My priority now is to protect my building.
goalkeeper schrieb:
But casually dropping that on me today during a chance meeting is not appropriate. goalkeeper schrieb:
By the way: "we will catch you off guard." Well, when I read that just now, I took it as "trying to be funny and cool while showing a connection with you"—a remark—and immediately assumed it as the basis for a casual conversation. How differently we all think ops:
goalkeeper schrieb:
For example, when I suggested a deeper foundation before we started construction, matching the future basement depth – no response. Could you possibly provide proof that this suggestion was made?
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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goalkeeper17 Apr 2020 08:1011ant schrieb:
Could you possibly provide proof of this suggestion? Yes... I had sent this suggestion to his architect by email.