ᐅ Request for feedback on various prefabricated house manufacturers

Thank you for your report. Did Weberhaus meet the construction schedule? How did the price develop—were there many additional selections or upgrades?

Tim2020 schrieb:

we came to the conclusion that it must be the Mercedes of prefab house manufacturers.

That’s actually not far from the truth—although it’s often forgotten that Mercedes now starts with the A-Class and, already when the first generation of the C-Class was introduced, the final quality control inspector was eliminated ;-)

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tomtom79 schrieb:

Thanks for your report. Did Weberhaus meet the construction timeline? How did the price develop? Was there a lot of additional customization?

No, they didn’t. It eventually took 22 months. But I don’t think we had anything firmly written into the contract that would allow us to claim compensation for delays.
They contacted us after about 6 months, saying that due to increased demand, for the first time in their company’s history, they couldn’t meet the construction timeline (which you can believe or not). Then came the Corona situation.

But the really bad thing wasn’t that they missed the deadline, it was that they consistently failed to meet the dates they themselves had given us shortly beforehand.
We didn’t really have much done by other companies (only 4-5 things). Yet our other contractors were always on time—or would have been, if Weberhaus had stuck to the schedule they set for us.

We had the excavation done by another company. They were punctual. Weberhaus wasn’t on time with the basement. They brought a crane that was too small—an amateur mistake in my opinion. It was a subcontractor of Weberhaus.
After finishing the basement, nothing was done on the site for four months. The neighbors thought we must have run out of money (that’s what one of them told us).
When we installed the kitchen, the electrician hadn’t finished the outlets yet. The cover plates were still missing. So the kitchen installer had to build in the kitchen and connect the appliances without covers.
Then we hired someone else to install the parquet floor because Weberhaus wanted twice as much money for the same parquet installation (€33,000 instead of €16,000). We had a very tight time window, just one week. The painter and tile setter were supposed to finish everything in the two weeks before that. Neither did, which meant they walked all over our expensive parquet. Of course, some damage happened (dents and two holes, probably caused by something heavy falling, but nobody told us). Luckily, we had an excellent parquet installer who came back and replaced the damaged planks free of charge.
We handled the garage and its foundation ourselves. Weberhaus told us they planned to do the exterior plaster work during week KWx to KWy (although they could have done this much earlier). They said we could then commission the foundation from week KWz onwards. According to the weather forecast, week KWx was supposed to have great weather and week KWy would be rainy all week. I informed the site manager about this. He said these forecasts can vary. In the end, week KWx had great weather and week KWy was rainy as foreseen. The painters worked inside the house during week KWx, but in week KWy they couldn’t plaster the exterior. So the scaffolding stayed up longer than planned, and the foundation team couldn’t build the garage foundation in week KWz where the scaffolding was still standing.
So they always missed the important dates.

11ant schrieb:

That’s quite close to the truth—although it’s often overlooked that Mercedes now starts with the A-Class and already discontinued the final inspection supervisor with the introduction of the first-generation C-Class. ;-)

However, the house was not an A-Class. On one hand, due to its size (240 m² (2,583 sq ft)), and on the other, because of its features: KfW40 walls, home automation, solar panels, many large windows, and much more. The price was 770,000 EUR. I think, considering the price and the features, it’s more comparable to the C-Class.

tomtom79 schrieb:

Thanks for your report. Did Weberhaus keep to the construction schedule? How did the price develop, was there a lot of additional specification?

The price was naturally somewhat higher than most. But we accepted that consciously. This was already our second house that we built. The first one was cheap. The second was meant to be more comfortable to upper-middle class. The price of the house was 770,000 Euro. Plus land and ancillary costs. In total, 1,170,000 Euro. So not in the lower price range but also not luxury.

Thank you for the report