Building a House: Any advice?

[Armitage]

another bit...
If you want to go through & photograph/tape the site, do it after hours. The crew/contractor will often take offense at that, the implication being that you don't trust them. Most of these guys take alot of pride in their work.

So What?
You rely on the good will of these guys more then you think. There's a fairly wide range of "acceptable" and you want to be near the top of it, so stay on their good side if you can. Plus it might buy you some favors ... a friend of mine got the crews to put in arches on some of the wall openings, mostly through pizza, beer, and hanging around the site being a nice guy. Got some extra outlets as well.

 

[Moonbeam]

From an early age I was recommended brick over sticks or straw.

Good lick to you and yours in your new home.

 

[Corn]

Good lick to you and yours in your new home.

What do you think is on Moonie's mind? 😀

 

[Ornery]

Man, you sure got your money's worth in options for $22,825!

Good luck, sounds like you have it under control.

 

[davee]

i live in europe but from my experience here it's a good idea to pay regular visits to the job.don't rush the job just pay attention to detail and the builder will know your particular about standards

 

[StageLeft]

Measure once cut thrice.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Corn

Good lick to you and yours in your new home.

What do you think is on Moonie's mind? 😀

If I had to guess I would say some opiate or derivative.

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😉 BTW

😀

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Bare lots in my area (chicago west suburbs) sell for that, Ross.

 

[Moonbeam]

Roast pork, I think.

 

[AMDSoldier]

My advice would be to do a lot of the work yourself actually. We are nearly complete with our construction, while we had various people do different things on the house, we did a lot of the dirty work and came to save us at least $50,000 so far.

Also my other suggestion is ask around and try to find as many bids as possible. Here in Oregon we were able to build a 4300sq house in a very nice neighborhood for ~$350,000. This house includes 4 bedrooms, 2 offices, spa room, threater room, bar and party room, and a sauna room.

For the most part, non-American builders is what you want. For example, to do stocka (is that how you say it in English?) work outside the house with an American company would run around $16-20,000. With some Russians we found, they charged $4,000.

Then once it's all built, should be worth at least $650,000. Basically if you work hard, it will pay off. 🙂

 

[everman]

Wire it completely with Ethernet and coax cable, beats doing it later when you really need it. Also make sure the circuits can handle the energy load some rooms may have containing multiple pc's etc ( if that applies to you)

 

[Zebo]

Raiden I don't cosider this "building a house" it's called "having a house built" and all i know is they fusk you at the drive though. Or is it after the walk though.

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: everman
Wire it completely with Ethernet and coax cable, beats doing it later when you really need it. Also make sure the circuits can handle the energy load some rooms may have containing multiple pc's etc ( if that applies to you)

Thats what I was thinking and run two cat 5's everywhere you only think that you will need one. You can thank me later.