Calculating your budget is crucial to the success of your construction project . Building is not just about buying land and paying a builder. You will obviously have to finance many other expenses to achieve your goal. To help you take stock, in addition to having shared all the stages of construction , I suggest you explain the cost of our entire house!

The sum of the services: dismantling of trees, terrace, fence, vegetation…

Expenditure on materials, fittings and equipment

Acquisition and financing costs

Taxes and duties

Building landIt all starts with the land. No land, no house! Some builders only made us offers once they had found it. Of course, we had a more or less precise idea of ​​its location, but this significantly influenced its price. Living near the sea, prices can double depending on its proximity.

We scoured the classified ads, browsed the windows of real estate agencies and spent a few evenings on Leboncoin! It was finally through a real estate agent that we found our plot. We would have preferred to go directly to the seller to avoid paying the agency fees. In the end, we do not regret our choice, because it allowed us to find the land that suited us, to delegate the negotiation to get our proposal through and to be supported during the administrative procedures, in particular the sales agreement and the signing at the notary.

the purchase price of the land (net seller) to which are added the agency fees and notary fees.

With this book, you will make the right choices and save money at every stage of your construction project.

Trenches and connectionsFor this part of the project, we were lucky that all the connections, apart from the gas, were on our street. You should know that development can really increase the construction budget if the distances between the house and the networks are significant. Fortunately for us, the house being less than 25 m from the connection points, we were able to benefit from the basic rates for water, electricity and telephone connections.

street is served by the sewer system, so we were able to connect directly to a service branch rather than having to install an independent sanitation system by installing a septic tank

The amount of construction

Construction by the builderThis is obviously the biggest expense . For our project, we chose to have a builder work for us. We could have been the project manager ourselves and dealt directly with the craftsmen; we might have saved money. Also, builders benefit from bulk purchasing and can lower prices. The choice between architect, project manager or builder is another debate… In any case, we were able to negotiate with the salesperson and find arrangements to reserve work to lower the price.

The installation of the heating system (heat pump connected to underfloor heating) and hot water production (heat pump connected to the VMC and

The budget for the kitchen

Kitchen installationFrom the start of the project, we wanted to plan for a fitted/equipped kitchen in the house. So we included this expense in the budget and looked at several kitchen designers. The different quotes allowed us to refine the design of the kitchen and also to realize the big price differences in this sector! Prices can easily go from single to double!

Finally, we opted for an IKEA kitchen, seduced by the quality, the guarantee and of course the prices. We were able to make the kitchen as we had imagined it without making any compromises. To save a few more hundred euro notes, we ordered all the household appliances on the Internet, taking advantage of discount prices.