More About Building your own in Atlanta
Yesterday, we looked at the first steps to building your own home in Atlanta, the lot and the ordinances. Then we showed how you can order a custom design or you can buy a pre-existing home plan. Today, we’re going to briefly cover the ordered steps in home construction.
The first step in putting your materials together is the foundation. Personally, I like a full, deep basement and that means the most hard work possible for the builders. Once you have the foundation laid in, with buckets of sweat, a few weeks of pay for a full crew and a lot of dirt and concrete, then we can get into lighter work.
The next step is framing out the house. Walls, doors and windows are placed usually using a wooden structure, if only to mark all the right spots.
After that, again, there were days filled with labor for a group of people, probably but not necessarily men. The plumbing is set in at this point, the HVAC, the drywall goes up, insulation goes in, painting gets done and the electrical wiring gets run through the house.
Tomorrow we’ll finish going through the list, then we’ll touch on the unmentioned buggaboo- getting all the stuff, from concrete to bathroom fixtures, that you use to build the place.
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