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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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.
When your neighbor ignores the folding rule and spirit level, I don’t think much of it anymore.
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goalkeeper8 Mar 2022 18:24Today, the neighbor actually asked if he could insulate his basement walls on our property… 🙄
Our goodwill offer was that he would pay for the soil survey (400 €), which we needed because of frost heaving and he didn’t want to pay for back then, and we would share the costs for the privacy screen/fence, as neighbors usually do. Then he could insulate on our land…
…now, guess who will end up with an uninsulated basement… 🙄
Our goodwill offer was that he would pay for the soil survey (400 €), which we needed because of frost heaving and he didn’t want to pay for back then, and we would share the costs for the privacy screen/fence, as neighbors usually do. Then he could insulate on our land…
…now, guess who will end up with an uninsulated basement… 🙄
Document everything carefully and consider checking with the building authority/planning office. You might be surprised how difficult it is to make such a change after the building permit/planning permission has been issued... but they probably won’t learn even through experience.
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Oetzberger8 Mar 2022 20:21borxx schrieb:
Document it well and check with the building authority; you would be surprised how difficult it can be to make such changes after obtaining the building permit / planning permission...No, live and let live. And don’t add fuel to the fire.
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goalkeeper8 Mar 2022 20:46borxx schrieb:
Document everything carefully and check with the building authority; you might be surprised whether making such a change after the building permit is even possible... but they probably won't learn even through experience.Oh no... we just want some peace, and the people at the building authority know me all too well by now... 😱
Even though I sincerely wish peace for you all after the whole situation, I simply no longer believe in it. You just provided the proof by rejecting those offered, open arms once again.
So not just a little oil but once again a real bomb into the fire, like mid five-figure sums for new builds or corresponding plan changes, etc.
So not just a little oil but once again a real bomb into the fire, like mid five-figure sums for new builds or corresponding plan changes, etc.
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