ᐅ Are building plans reliable? When is the right time to terminate your rental lease?

Pinkiponk schrieb:

That already looks really great at your place. 🙂 What are you doing with the ceilings, do you have exposed beams?

No, no exposed beams 😎 We are simply installing a suspended drywall ceiling with a thickness of 11 cm (4.3 inches). The ducts for the mechanical ventilation system will be installed there. We also still need to decide where to place recessed ceiling lights and light outlets. Besides that, the attic will be boarded so we have plenty of storage space. It will be over 20 square meters (215 square feet) with a height of at least 2 m (6.6 feet).

We terminated the contract the day after handover. We will need almost 2 months for painting and flooring work (not included in the house price) plus the kitchen installation, and the remaining month was used to prepare the old apartment for handover. During a viewing, our landlord of the old apartment told us that he will no longer rent it out but use it himself, and that a broom-clean condition is sufficient 😀

Nida35a schrieb:

@motorradsilke did exactly that. Stayed in the residential container on the property while demolition, earthworks, and rebuilding were carried out. Nothing happened without her approval.

Yes, we moved into an office container on the property at the start of demolition. However, we had already been living in the house on the property for many years. We had an office container (2.5 x 6 m (8 x 20 feet), which we had previously placed elsewhere on the property) installed 1 m (3 feet) away from an existing garage. In front of that, we set up a large party tent (4 x 4 m (13 x 13 feet)) where we stored the old kitchen furniture, dining table, and some smaller pieces of furniture. The garage served as a cellar substitute and storage room. Inside the container, we had our double bed, sofa, TV, a large office cabinet, and a shelf for our essential clothes. Between the garage and container, there was a covered space for a shower and a chemical toilet. We had basically created a small living complex. However, the shower and toilet were only exposed to outdoor conditions, and the kitchen had only slightly better protection, which during last year’s “summer” really took its toll in the last few weeks. We could not have managed this for much longer than six months. At the beginning, the water in the coffee machine actually froze. The rest of the furniture and belongings were stored in two other garages on the property.

We also had a tight schedule that had to be strictly followed due to the living situation. Luckily, that worked out. The screed was installed on August 18, then it dried for a week with plenty of ventilation. After one week, I set up a construction dryer because the walls were still too damp. On August 31, the area for the heating was tiled, and by September 3 the heating system was installed. Then there was a four-week screed drying program with the heating, and mid-September the drywall installer started, finishing at the end of September. On October 1, we began painting and laying floors. We moved in on October 15. However, there were still no interior doors (due to delivery delays), no kitchen (IKEA also did not keep fixed delivery dates), and only the guest restroom was ready. The bathroom was tiled and the fixtures installed the following week, and the doors and kitchen arrived in mid-November. That was not a problem though—our doors are almost always open anyway, and for the kitchen, a few tables with two hotplates on top served well; we still had those and the refrigerator. Lamps were installed gradually, as I found them in boxes. But finally being able to use a warm toilet was priceless. The rest came together over the next weeks; we are still not completely finished (the tile backsplash and kitchen windowsill are still missing, and some walls will be painted in color this fall). For now, our priority was the exterior grounds. We were able to remove the last construction fences two weeks ago once the fence was finally installed, and it’s hardly noticeable anymore that this was ever a construction site.