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Plot Plan: How to Build a Home, Step 17
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The engineered plot plan allows us to build quality, trouble-free homes. They are used throughout the construction process to ensure local zoning requirements are met and to help the lot drain properly. When done correctly, a plot plan is created that will minimize the cost of construction and the potential for basement moisture. […]
How to Build a Home, Step 14: Revisit Overall Budget
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Today we continue our quest to take you through all the steps on how to build a home. At this point in the process, you have received and reviewed your bids from the contractors. So it’s time to take another look at your budget. Remember, up to this point you have only used rough estimates […]
How to Build a Home, Step 12: Send Out Bid Packages
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We continue our blog series, How to Build a Home, with our next step, sending out your bid packages. This is one of the most important steps in the pre-construction process. By taking the time to create detailed bid packages, with all of your project information, potential trades and suppliers will be able to provide […]
Analyzing Costs: How to Build a Home – Step 5
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The next step in our blog series, How to Build a Home, is to analyze your overall costs. By adding your estimated rough cost to build to the lot cost, you will have an idea of the overall project cost. Comparing this estimated total cost for the completed home to your overall budget from step […]
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 […]
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 […]
Build a Home..The Forecast Ahead
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If you would like to build a home, you may want to act now. The forecast shows new home construction volume is heading up. This means that pricing will be heading north and subcontractor and land supply availability will shrink as time goes on. There are some really good contractors sitting at home right now…but […]
Lot Purchase: Builder Tips Part II
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There are many things to consider when looking at potential lots to build your dream home on. This includes the obvious things like neighborhood, proximity to shopping and views. But there are some other items that are not so obvious that you should be on the lookout for to avoid surprises. This is part […]
Drywall Cost Increases Coming
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Hopefully you have your project plans finalized and are ready to go. Whether you are finishing your basement or building a custom home, your drywall cost is about to go up. Manufacturers have announced that drywall board is going up thirty percent around New Years. So how does that affect your project and what can […]
Armchair Builder has shared a few deck building tips in the recent past. Unfortunately, decks are one of those projects that homeowners don’t seem to think require a lot of skill and design. This can lead to hassles and worse, the possibility of serious injury to your family and guests. The Biggest of all Deck […]
