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Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]
Hiya Sue. Im in Elblag just the other end of the canal from you. Its provincial and cheap like Olsztjn. Ive just handed over the building of my house, to a small firm today, and they are gonna finnish off for me to stan surowy. basically closed and roofed but not finished(no money up front). This has to be done before the winter as breez blocks blow apart in frost(the big crate bricks dont). By the time id got permission it was half way through the summer, so me and my wife couldnt have got finnished. we built massive foundations 2.2m (on a hill) each block 25kg,50 ton total. got a bit of help after that from two part time firemen and got to lintels , I was stubbornly against it cos it was my everest. but if your working with em... Put an ad in village, No Drinkers.
What Im trying to say is Do it;
The most important ive found so far are;
The land must have A road and electric + water (piped water not a well)directly accessible from your plot (have the vendor agree to put services to the land in the contract) or you wont get the second permission, the first permissions mean nowt,(this is the mistake we made we thought we could start building and came to poland and had to wait) ie buying the land budowlana doesnt always get permission (normally yea)theyll tell what you can build so dont by plans till then(ready plans are about 2-3000zl)
Try and buy flat land and the adaptation of plans to the land by another arcitect will be cheaper + dont make changes.
do all the paper chasing in the winter and you may be able to do all the building yourselfs, but even if you cant good strong helpers are only 10zl/hr.
I recon a 100m2 house costs about 100,000 land, 100,000 stan, 150,00 finish doing it yourself add about 100,000 for labour if not.
Weve had a lovely expirience doing it , felt like a real prospector, but im glad i no longer have to live in a wooden hut, My wife dealt with the merchants and although she would never be regarded as builder she was most of the time treated great respect and kindness ,me even more so, yes you do feel some people ********** (all the way back to their comunist holes) but you get that when you do anything out of the norm, THE NORM FOR ENGLISH HERE IS TO BE A NATIVE SPEAKER AND SIT IN A BAR LORDING IT UP, like that fella with nowt nice to say.
Good luck
