You are in: Building the House
You Have Accomplished - Part 1
Look at how even you annex accomplished. You annex your building abundance, you’ve arranged your
loan, and you annex a box course you can indispensable with and are able to finance.
You’ve completed the broad bigness of paperwork that includes any leading permits and insurance policies.
You annex located most of your subs and annex contracts with them.
You’ve visited indefinite assistance houses and worked out your accounts for bricks, concrete, and lumber.
Congratulations.
You’ve reached the age you cue might never come.
You’re ready to day one building.
What is the proper sequence of steps in building the box, and how extensive will each accept? Let’s assemble a document of them.
1. Staking the abundance and box: 1–3 hours
2. Clearing and excavation: 1–3 days
3. Ordering utilities, transitority electric function, and a portable toilet: 1 hour
4. Footings (steps 3 and 4 can be reversed). First inspection must be fictional before pouring: 1 day
5. Foundation and earth treatment, then foundation survey: 1 week
6. Rough-ins for plumbing, provided on a slab, and inspection: 2–4 days
7. Slabs, basement, and garage: 1–2 days
8. Framing and drying-in: 1–3 weeks
9. Exterior siding, trim, veneers: 1–3 weeks
10. Chimneys and roofing: 2 days–1 week
11. Rough-ins can be done while steps 9 and 10 are in progress: 1–2 weeks
12. Insulation: 3 days
13. Hardwood flooring and underlayment: 3 days–1 week
14. Drywall: 2 weeks
15. Priming walls and “pointing up”: 2 days
16. Interior trim and cabinets: 1–2 weeks
17. Painting: 2–3 weeks
18. Other trims, such as Formica, ceramic tile, vinyl floors: 1 day–1 week
19. Trimming out and finishing plumbing, mechanical, and electrical and hooking up utilities: 1–2 weeks
20. Cleanup: 2–3 days
21. Floor-mat and/or hardwood floor finish: 3 days–1 week
22. Driveway (if concrete, can be poured anytime after course 14): 1–3 days
23. Landscaping: 1–3 days
24. Final inspections, surveys, and closing of construction loan and interim loan:
1–3 days
25. Enjoying your native: a lifetime
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