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:
After our general contractor consulted with the geotechnical engineer, it seems a solution using reinforced L-shaped concrete blocks along with backfilling is possible. After that, the geotechnical engineer will carry out the inspection and load plate bearing tests. Sounds complicated. If the load plate bearing tests indicate the site is "unsuitable for construction," what happens then?You could ask your bargain neighbor if they’d also build you a basement.
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goalkeeper25 Aug 2019 10:24kaho674 schrieb:
Sounds complicated. If the bearing plate load tests show the site is "unbuildable," what happens then?They are only done for the filled area. If that doesn’t meet the requirements, the site supervisor has to make corrections.
The actual ground is suitable for construction without any issues.
goalkeeper schrieb:
They are only made for the filled-in part. I thought you have to fill in all the areas where you want to build, including parking spaces?
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goalkeeper25 Aug 2019 10:33kaho674 schrieb:
I thought you have to backfill everywhere you want to build, including parking spaces? Exactly – and the earthworks contractor carries out this backfilling – so they also need to ensure that the compaction tests meet the requirements.
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goalkeeper26 Aug 2019 17:36So... the quotes are in: Backfilling is around 15,000, the basement around 50,000. The savings from a crawl space basement are too small to be noticeable. We will therefore choose the backfilling option.
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HilfeHilfe26 Aug 2019 17:39goalkeeper schrieb:
So... the quotes are in: backfilling costs 15,000, the basement is 50,000. The savings with the crawl space basement are too small to make a real difference. So we will decide to go with the backfilling. Annoying!!
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