Turnkey House: What the Price Actually Includes

A turnkey house means a house handed over ready to live in: design plans, structure, roof, exterior joinery, installations, insulation, interior finishes, floors, a basic bathroom and kitchen, all under one contract and one deadline. A shell ("la roșu" in Romanian) is only the first half: a house under the roof that you cannot live in yet.

In practice, the shell covers the foundation, the SIP panels assembled by our crew, the floors, the roof structure and covering; you can finish it at your own pace. Windows and exterior doors are not included; they are an add-on, from €30/m². The price starts from €400/m² on a foundation and from €300/m² without one. The house kit (domocomplect) is something else: only the parts of the house, for self-assembly, from €150/m².

Turnkey starts from an estimated €900/m²; the gap to the shell reflects the windows and the work left to do. The starting price of every design is on the price list, what can push it up is in our guide to SIP house prices, and an itemised estimate for 100 m² is in the sample estimate.

Many "turnkey" offers on the market are actually a starting point, with "options" added later that push the final sum up significantly. With us, everything discussed at the consultation goes into the contract at a fixed sum; any later change to the project or the options is discussed and agreed explicitly, never added to the invoice automatically.

That approach lets you plan your total moving budget from the consultation stage onward, not partway through the build, when changes almost always cost more.

The most common costs people forget with classic construction are the foundation (which depends on the land, not the house) and utility connections (water, power, sewage), especially if the plot is far from existing networks.

With us, the foundation is already part of the shell on a foundation and, through it, of the turnkey price; its type (strip with a slab, monolithic slab or concrete piers) is chosen to suit your land, not the project you picked, and the sum is fixed after the consultation. Every other stage of the turnkey package sits inside the price fixed after your consultation, so you don't discover extra costs halfway through the build. The same goes for site access or a working platform for equipment: we cover that at the consultation, not once the build has already started.

We go through the project you picked from the catalog, your land, and your desired finishing level together; only after that conversation do you get a fixed price for the entire job, with no recalculating later.

This usually takes a single meeting, enough to cover every variable that matters, so the build starts with a price we don't change later.