Discover The Most Important Steps To Building Your Own Home
Many people dream of their perfect home accommodating all their needs. Yet, few people actually follow through thinking it’s too expensive or difficult. Having an expert to guide you through all the steps to building your own home would probably encourage more consumers.
Luckily, if you live in the greater Piedmont Triad Area, you have an expert, Clear-Cut Building. We’re licensed contractors with decades of residential and commercial experience. With our help, we’ll guide you through the entire process eliminating the need for a general contractor. In the process, you’ll save thousands of dollars building your own home.
Basic Steps To Building Your Own Home
Building a home that meets all your needs and expectations is exciting. However, constructing your home requires many steps along the way. Clear-Cut Building can guide you through each and every phase through the course of constructing your custom house. Working together, we’ll review each process while meeting and solving any challenges.
Build A Budget
Having a detailed, realistic budget is one of your most important building tools and often the most difficult to create. Thankfully, you can find many free online templates to help you organize your expenses.
Seek Financing
Securing financing for a new construction home is a little different than a traditional mortgage. Of course, your lender will need to review your financial situation. Additionally, the financial institution will also need a copy of your building plan and the contract with your builder.
Secure A Site
Your building site should be more than just a pretty view. The property must be suitable for building a home, with local utilities nearby.
Pick A Floor Plan
Architectural style, budget, size, elements, and lot characteristics can help narrow down your choices from the thousands of available plans. Or, perhaps, you want to hire an architect to bring your dream to life. Often, architects will also help with material selection.
Apply For Permits
Every municipality has rules and regulations governing the construction of buildings. When building a home, your town must ensure your home complies with local standards for zoning and construction. A building permit is your official approval allowing you to proceed with your construction.
Hire Subcontractors
When you build your own home, you’ll probably need some experts to do some of the technical work for you. Hiring qualified subcontractors isn’t that different from finding other types of professionals. Ask friends and neighbors for referrals and check online listing directories. Always follow up by checking reviews and references.
FAQs About Building Your Own Home
Undoubtedly, building your home is a huge investment of time and money. To help you make the best choices during the process, we’ve answered some of our most commonly asked questions.
What Is The Cost Of Building A House?
Dynamic factors that give your home its uniqueness make it difficult to give a generic cost. Of course, larger homes cost more than smaller ones. Additionally, your material costs and luxury features will drive up your cost. Also, unanticipated expenses like land excavation or leveling can increase your price.
Undeniably, you are in control of the cost to build your home. During the planning stage, you’ll make decisions affecting the cost. However, by partnering with Clear-Cut Building, we can guide you to making cost-effective choices.
How Long Will It Take To Build My Home?
Similar to pricing, the length of time it takes to build a house varies considerably. Factors such as site preparation, local permitting process, and of course the weather all impact your timetable.
When you partner with Clear-Cut Building, we’ll review your plans and material choices and their impact on your schedule. For example, a complex architectural design takes longer to build than a simple layout.
Why Choose Clear-Cut Building?
Afraid of the home building process, many consumers compromise on their home purchase. Instead of settling for any home, build the home you’ve always wanted with Clear-Cut Building’s help. Our experienced team will guide you through each and every phase of the home building process.
Hear Reviews From Our Clients
Better yet, hear what our clients have to say. We always appreciate your reviews!
“Clear-Cut Building has been an absolute pleasure to work with and allowed my wife and I to save money when building our dream home. We went to several builders to get quotes and each one had been more expensive for the same layout and finishes. Clear-Cut’s “build it yourself” process has allowed us to save builder costs so we could afford the finishes we truly wanted. They helped us every step of the way and made the process very easy for us. With the luxury of using any subcontractors we chose, plus the recommendations Greg gave us, made us feel comfortable using prior connections we already had. If I had to build another home, without a doubt, I would build with Clear-Cut again. The transparency and knowledge they had made this an enjoyable process for the family.”
Thank you for the kind words, Jeff and Stephanie!
We’re waiting to help you begin your dream house! Call us at 336-602-3662 to book your appointment. When you need help accomplishing all the steps to building your own home, rely on Clear-Cut Building.
