Building Safety: New Rules for Home Building
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Building safety should be a major concern for owner builders. On December 15th, 2012, OSHA will be enforcing a new fall protection rule on new home building sites. The leading cause of death on construction sites in the U.S. each year are from falls. As an owner builder, you need to make sure you and […]
Cost to Build: How to Build a Home – Step 4
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Updated May 2020 Determining the rough cost to build is the forth step in our blog series, How to Build a Home. Step one was to determine your overall budget. Step two…find a potential building lot. Step three was to locate a potential house plan. Now, you need to get a rough estimate for the cost […]
House Plans: How to Build a Home – Step 3
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Creating your house plans is the third step in our blog series…How to Build a Home. At this point in your new home building project you have determined your overall budget, selected a lot to build on and are now ready to create the plans for your dream home. Here we will discuss all of […]
Building Lot Selection: How to Build a Home Step 2
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This is the continuation of our blog series, How to Build a Home…65 Steps. The first step was to determine the overall budget. Your second step is to find a building lot to build your dream home on. Keeping your overall budget number in mind, your goal here is to locate a building lot […]
A hip roof isn’t just a cool or happening roof. It is a particular roof shape. A hip roof is one that angles down to the exterior wall as shown above. If your home has a square shaped floor plan the hip roof will look like a pyramid on top. Since your new home’s roof […]
How to Build a Home…Step 1 The Overall Budget
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This is our first blog post for our new How to Build a Home Series where we plan to take you through all the steps required. Building new can be a complicated process but it doesn’t have to be. Our goal is to break the process down so you know exactly what you are getting into. […]
How to Build a Home…65 Steps
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If you’ve spent any time at ArmchairBuilder.com, you’ve learned a few things about how to build a home. We’ve created some great videos, articles, and digital resources to help you make your dream home a reality. Having said this, we should mention that we have never really taken you through the complete process from start […]
Rafters versus Trusses – Which is Best?
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When it comes to building a new home, is it better to use rafters or roof trusses? You may be wondering what the difference is between these two. Here we will discuss the pros and cons of each. We hope to give you some guidance as to which will be a better fit your new […]
Should you use I-joists for your new home? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using them to support your new floors? What are the alternatives to I-joists? We will try to answer some of these questions below. The good news is, we have used all of the options discussed and can give you […]
Home Depot Coupons for Black Friday – Cyber Monday
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We have a new relationship with The Home Depot that allows us to offer our readers some great online deals. We thought we would share with you some of the best Home Depot coupons for today, Black Friday and this weekend. A few of them are even good on Cyber Monday. It might be a […]
