Building your own in Atlanta: ‘the stuff’
Here’s our last look at what is involved for those of you wanting to build your own home in Atlanta. We looked briefly at buying a lot and getting your site and plan approved. We had a gander at how you can come into a plan for your house: by buying a ready made plan or having an entirely unique design made up. Then we briefly went through the order of construction.
Today, let’s address another obvious yet important matter. If you decide to ‘build your own house’ you can take more than one approach. You can buy all the supplies, tools and hauling devices yourself if you want. You can do every ounce of the labor yourself, along with your family and friends. Or, you can hire out part of the work, and do some of it yourself.
This is a case where it would be wise to not let pride get in your way. Some of you will have the time, money, skills and energy to devote to doing it all yourself. However, a lot of you have part of what you need to do the job and that’s just how it really is. If you are insistent upon doing it all yourself, then you can. However, you have to plan your project’s schedule around your limitations. For example, if you are cruising along with framing and it goes just fine that’s great, but then what if you run into a ‘dead end’ on putting in the electricity or plumbing? Suddenly, this part of the ‘construction technique’ could take weeks longer. So, bear in mind that as long as you are able to budget properly, then you can choose to hire out those ‘nasty sections’ of the work to professional teams.
That’s it for building your own.
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