ᐅ Is the construction boom still ongoing?

If I build a new house and need €1000 in energy costs per month, there are serious construction defects.

BackSteinGotik schrieb:

the 1000€ energy costs will be added as well.

How do you manage that? 1,000€ energy costs are already high for an older building, let alone for a new build.

He might already be expecting a heating energy cost of around €3 per kWh, regardless of the source.

SaniererNRW123 schrieb:

How do you manage that? €1,000 energy cost is already high for an older building, let alone for a new build.

Admittedly, I base my estimate on a higher expected value – I assume 16,000 kWh consumption for a 10 to 15-year-old modern house using gas, plus 3,500 kWh electricity. Currently, that already puts me at over €700 in the two new contracts, and it won’t get any cheaper in the next six months; on the contrary. When banks are already calculating operating costs at €4 per m² (about €600 for 150 m² (1,615 sq ft)), I don’t find that figure completely unreasonable, and those who cannot afford it will soon face problems.

BackSteinGotik schrieb:

I estimate an energy consumption of 16,000 kWh for a 10 to 15-year-old modern house with gas,

The consumption should be lower for a house like that. I’m currently in talks about a terraced house with 167 m² (1,798 sq ft), built in 2002, with just under 9,000 kWh of gas usage—liquefied petroleum gas, to be exact. That currently costs about €140 per month, with the price expected to stay below €200.

In your example, my current bill with the main supplier is a modest €450, which is still far from €1,000 per month.

What can I say, sometimes I’m really baffled...
A terraced house, usually a mid-terrace, can hardly be compared in terms of heating demand with a detached single-family home.

A detached single-family home has four external walls, whereas a mid-terrace house has two, which are usually smaller in area than the shared walls with neighbors.
You naturally lose much more heat through an external wall at 0°C (32°F) outdoor temperature than through a party wall to a heated adjacent building at 20°C (68°F).
To make matters worse, heat transfer is not linear but depends on the temperature difference... Physics II at university...

The 1,000 EUR was for gas and electricity... Not everyone has a default energy supplier, and not all default suppliers offer cheap rates.
Family and friends in my old hometown currently pay 16 cents/kWh for gas, while in my new hometown, the default supplier charges 26 cents/kWh for gas... BEFORE surcharges...