Hi, in just under two weeks, our house construction will begin with the foundation slab.
We are building with a general contractor (GC) or a general builder? I’m not sure anymore. It’s a turnkey house built with solid construction, including architectural services, and the trades are subcontracted by them. The tradespeople come from all over Germany.
We had the front door including the side panel excluded from the contract and have sourced it ourselves, or actually ordered it this week.
In an email from the house building company it says:
"Please note that the front door must be delivered and installed by you when our windows are being installed. The shell must be fully enclosed for us to continue work. If you install a temporary site door, additional adjustment costs for the later installation of the 'final' front door on site will apply. These costs must be paid separately by you on site based on actual effort."
I don’t understand one thing: I have the contract for the complete plastering of the house and the entire screed.
Why do I have to expect additional costs in this regard if the actual front door is only installed at the end and the workers then have to plaster or lay screed again?
Theoretically, it should only be the travel costs that I have to pay again, right? Because material and labor are included anyway.
But many charge well for travel, especially if they come from Hannover and we are building in Lampertheim.
The site manager said on Tuesday that I would only have to pay about 100€ for the temporary site door. But of course, I don’t have this in writing.
If I understand correctly and install a temporary site door, I pay for that, and then at the end the actual door with frame will be installed and plastering, screed, etc. will be redone, right?
How can I avoid this?
A colleague of mine who also sells front doors said:
If there is no other way and to avoid costs and damage to the expensive front door, I should just install it from the start, pack it well, and lock it!
The construction workers would then simply enter the house from the back through the terrace.
Is this possible? Can I insist that they access the house from the side or back to protect the door?
Attached is our construction schedule and the floor plan with the “entrances.”
Thank you in advance!
Best regards
We are building with a general contractor (GC) or a general builder? I’m not sure anymore. It’s a turnkey house built with solid construction, including architectural services, and the trades are subcontracted by them. The tradespeople come from all over Germany.
We had the front door including the side panel excluded from the contract and have sourced it ourselves, or actually ordered it this week.
In an email from the house building company it says:
"Please note that the front door must be delivered and installed by you when our windows are being installed. The shell must be fully enclosed for us to continue work. If you install a temporary site door, additional adjustment costs for the later installation of the 'final' front door on site will apply. These costs must be paid separately by you on site based on actual effort."
I don’t understand one thing: I have the contract for the complete plastering of the house and the entire screed.
Why do I have to expect additional costs in this regard if the actual front door is only installed at the end and the workers then have to plaster or lay screed again?
Theoretically, it should only be the travel costs that I have to pay again, right? Because material and labor are included anyway.
But many charge well for travel, especially if they come from Hannover and we are building in Lampertheim.
The site manager said on Tuesday that I would only have to pay about 100€ for the temporary site door. But of course, I don’t have this in writing.
If I understand correctly and install a temporary site door, I pay for that, and then at the end the actual door with frame will be installed and plastering, screed, etc. will be redone, right?
How can I avoid this?
A colleague of mine who also sells front doors said:
If there is no other way and to avoid costs and damage to the expensive front door, I should just install it from the start, pack it well, and lock it!
The construction workers would then simply enter the house from the back through the terrace.
Is this possible? Can I insist that they access the house from the side or back to protect the door?
Attached is our construction schedule and the floor plan with the “entrances.”
Thank you in advance!
Best regards
I would arrange with the door supplier to have the front door installed only as a frame without the infill, since a chipboard will be inserted, and the infill will be delivered and installed later when it can be done safely. This is how we did it. See picture. The frame and handle are well protected by film. Karsten
But that only works with front doors that have a visible panel, right? We also bought our front door ourselves back then. Our construction company installed a temporary site door first, and only after the house was almost finished did we have the actual door installed. We didn’t have to pay anything extra for that.
How are the builders supposed to get through the patio door—is it lockable from the outside?
Best regards
Sabine
How are the builders supposed to get through the patio door—is it lockable from the outside?
Best regards
Sabine
Curly schrieb:
But this only works with front doors that have a visible panel, right?I think Nordlys actually meant the "door leaf." So you would install just the door frame (which can then be plastered around) and protect it by covering it; the door leaf itself—whether it has paneling or not—is not hung yet, nor are its hinges tightened. Instead, a chipboard is inserted, into which a temporary construction door can be mounted.
Yes, that is a practical solution. Having the tradespeople work "around the back" would not be.
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305er schrieb:
An email from the homebuilding company states:"... If you install a temporary construction door, additional processing costs will arise later for fitting the ‘real’ front door on site."The temporary construction door covers parts of the reveal where the final door will be fitted. You then have to work around this and complete the work in a later step. If the contractor supplied the door, they could better coordinate the replacement time and avoid double work. Charging the client for the extra effort is reasonable and factually justified.
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