ᐅ Is a developer required to disclose significant slope height and associated costs?
Created on: 11 Feb 2019 10:52
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Sony70
Hello dear forum members,
We are currently building our house on the lower part of a slope, on an almost flat plot. In the garden area, there was also a certain incline, so we hired the builder to fill in the ground at a cost of about 3,000 EUR. What we didn’t know, however, was the required building height of the house, which is above the original ground level. Because of this, our garden area had to be filled again, resulting in a slope of 2 meters (6.6 feet) on one side. The costs for reinforcing this slope are estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 EUR. If we had known this earlier, we might have designed the terrace with steps and created a terraced garden. Our builder never informed us about this issue and its consequences. Also, the large slope height is not visible in the construction plans.
Do we have any legal options here?
Thank you in advance!
Sony
We are currently building our house on the lower part of a slope, on an almost flat plot. In the garden area, there was also a certain incline, so we hired the builder to fill in the ground at a cost of about 3,000 EUR. What we didn’t know, however, was the required building height of the house, which is above the original ground level. Because of this, our garden area had to be filled again, resulting in a slope of 2 meters (6.6 feet) on one side. The costs for reinforcing this slope are estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 EUR. If we had known this earlier, we might have designed the terrace with steps and created a terraced garden. Our builder never informed us about this issue and its consequences. Also, the large slope height is not visible in the construction plans.
Do we have any legal options here?
Thank you in advance!
Sony
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Mottenhausen30 Aug 2019 21:15Perhaps it would be wise to clearly mark the fictional sections in the post as such, before anyone else takes them for real.