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Home building on land thread 2021 - progress pics inside
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Awesome video! Keep em coming!
Pretty cool! I'll definitely keep watching the series.
Subbed. We're in the middle of the same scenario in South Whitfield/North Gordon. We're finishing up siding today and starting sheetrock Wednesday, so we're a little further along.
I tried to hire a GC to begin with but did a little figuring and can build a house for 40%~ round about what they kept quoting me. When you're looking for contractors, look north, but get some quotes from south of you. Atlanta area contractors are not quite double what N Ga contractors are. In my experience they are in a bigger hurry to get back home too. I found a great framing crew out of Chattanooga when you're looking for them. @captdave77 did my HVAC. Insulation sprayed in by Appalachian Spray foam in Cartersville (Danny), is a good guy and a lot cheaper than anyone else I called.
Also, every single quote you get is negotiable. I suppose contractors assume you are just calling them but get no less than 5 quotes and references. They will be all over the place. For instance, I had one electrician quote me 25k for my electrical work. Hired a local guy up here who did my electrical and plumbing for 18k.
Had a local septic guy up here do 2 systems (Shop and house) who was 1/2 price of some folks I knew from Dallas. One system was standard and the house was a huge pumped system.
If you provide materials that eliminates the need to pay contractors up front any percentage. I'd pay draws on Fridays if paying a crew was a thing.
70% at the end of rough in and 30% at final on 2 part jobs.
Don't take any **** off contractors. 0 ****!!! You can find someone else to do it and if you do they'll give you what they want and not what you want.
Getting permits is not difficult, be nice to the permit office people. They can make life hard. Theyre used to dealing with contractors so approach them hat in hand and explain what you're doing. You'll get a lot of leeway from inspectors since you're building your own home.
I could write a book about it by now. I'm kind of thinking about getting my GC license. Some friends and I have talked about building houses since I'm doing this one. There's a reason the GC drives a fancy truck and his hands ain't dirty. I've met enough GCs now that I feel like, with a little reading, I could get a license.
Anyway, I'm pretty local to you if I can give some recommendations I'd be happy to. Especially on my building supply guys. I feel like they've done me real good.
Bryan
I tried to hire a GC to begin with but did a little figuring and can build a house for 40%~ round about what they kept quoting me. When you're looking for contractors, look north, but get some quotes from south of you. Atlanta area contractors are not quite double what N Ga contractors are. In my experience they are in a bigger hurry to get back home too. I found a great framing crew out of Chattanooga when you're looking for them. @captdave77 did my HVAC. Insulation sprayed in by Appalachian Spray foam in Cartersville (Danny), is a good guy and a lot cheaper than anyone else I called.
Also, every single quote you get is negotiable. I suppose contractors assume you are just calling them but get no less than 5 quotes and references. They will be all over the place. For instance, I had one electrician quote me 25k for my electrical work. Hired a local guy up here who did my electrical and plumbing for 18k.
Had a local septic guy up here do 2 systems (Shop and house) who was 1/2 price of some folks I knew from Dallas. One system was standard and the house was a huge pumped system.
If you provide materials that eliminates the need to pay contractors up front any percentage. I'd pay draws on Fridays if paying a crew was a thing.
70% at the end of rough in and 30% at final on 2 part jobs.
Don't take any **** off contractors. 0 ****!!! You can find someone else to do it and if you do they'll give you what they want and not what you want.
Getting permits is not difficult, be nice to the permit office people. They can make life hard. Theyre used to dealing with contractors so approach them hat in hand and explain what you're doing. You'll get a lot of leeway from inspectors since you're building your own home.
I could write a book about it by now. I'm kind of thinking about getting my GC license. Some friends and I have talked about building houses since I'm doing this one. There's a reason the GC drives a fancy truck and his hands ain't dirty. I've met enough GCs now that I feel like, with a little reading, I could get a license.
Anyway, I'm pretty local to you if I can give some recommendations I'd be happy to. Especially on my building supply guys. I feel like they've done me real good.
Bryan
Yeah man, I look forward to watching you progress.hey I really appreciate the support guys.. will definitely be including gun range buildout video..and we will do a small event out there.
Also, thanks for subbingNonliberal
If you're anywhere in Cartersville I'm only 30 minutes from you. 7 minutes off 75 from the Flying J
A great Vid! Look forward to the forward progress...
ps.. You out kicked your punt coverage..... !
ps.. You out kicked your punt coverage..... !
I'm not a huge picture takerer. The wife takes plenty. I'll get some when I step out of the shop of where we're currently at but heres some along the way.
Clearing and where the front porch is now
Framing and out the front 2nd floor window
"Accidental 3rd floor with 16' ceilings. I got pissy with the wife early on and told her draw whatever the hell she wanted. Then I built that ridiculous **** for her.
It's a lot further along now. Siding is on, windows doors, etc. Ready for sheetrock. With any luck I'll be living in it by the end of Summer.
Thanks, I sold my old house, some rental properties, and all of my machine guns(pretty much all of my lifelong investments) to build this thing. Luckily we have a house already on the property to live in while we build this one. I built my shop out here so I don't have far to drive to work. Shop got finished first. Planning on finishing out life here, so trying to make it what we want.
Remember how long it took you to get that money when you start writing them checks to build. Don't be in a hurry either, right now is a bad time to be buying building materials.
If you're smart about it you can build a house that sells for twice that I a fancy subdivision. Just a little insight, I had originally planned on building a 3400 sf house with an 8 ft center height in the attic. General Contractors kept quoting me 750k, 3 in a row for a custom home. That sounded ridiculous.
That was before I laid the foundation. Laid the foundation in the fresh cleared beautiful big field and the wife thought it was tiny. A little over 2000 sf does look tiny in the middle of a huge field with nothing around it. I tried explaining this to her but visually she could not comprehend.
I got kind of pissed at her and told her "Foundation is down, heres a ****ing pencil. Draw whatever makes you happy baby.". Well, she did. She moved the walls out to be straight on the second floor and redesigned the layout. No problem, house is over 4000 sf at this point, but whatever makes the woman happy.
Roof pitch, now this is where I stepped on my dick. I said 5/12 roof which would have given us a nice ceiling height in the middle of the attic of about 9 ft right down the middle. Well, she talks it over with my building supply guy (great guy, Ernie) and she decides a slightly higher pitch would be better. Whatever the **** you want baby...
So now we have just under 6000 ft of conditioned space with room for loft bedrooms on the third floor (making it 4 floors). I even put a bathroom in what was supposed to be the attic but is the biggest space in the house.
Man, I'm ranting. The two points I was going to make.
1. You can take a picture of a cartoon house on a napkin to the permit office and they'll give you a permit. Then you can hire your own contractors to build said cartoon house.
2. GCs quote me on new cartoon house, wait for it...1.5 million, lol.
I am actually co.ing in at somewhere around 400k on the house and it would be less if it weren't for the driveway. Rock kept sinking and I have somewhere between 30-50k in gravel and bobcat rental in the driveway.
Anyway, you can build a pretty damn nice house for 275k as long as you allow for the unexpected stuff.
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