http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com Professional resources for the do-it-yourself homebuilder Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:31:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/drywall/drywallinspection/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/drywall/drywallinspection/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:55 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1169 The finished quality of your drywall will have a large impact on the beauty of your home. That is why the drywall inspection and drywall punch-out will be such critical stages in your construction process. Your drywall inspection should be a three stage process. You need to implement a drywall inspection before drywall, so you [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/drywall/drywallinspection/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/framing/how-to-frame-a-basement/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/framing/how-to-frame-a-basement/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:28:11 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1158 Whether you are building a house or just remodeling your basement, and you are looking for information about how to frame a basement, then you have come to the perfect location. Steps on How to Frame a Basement:  Before you learn how to frame a basement, you need to start your process by checking your [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/framing/how-to-frame-a-basement/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/concrete/concrete-foundation-forms/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/concrete/concrete-foundation-forms/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:01:05 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1152 Form lumber consists of economy grade 1×4, 2×6, and 2×4 dimensions. Minimum lengths for 2×4 and 2×6 should be 12 feet. The formsetter constructs the 2×6 forms for the foundation. The front of the garage is typically left open to permit the delivery of form sand. The formsetter supplies his own nails, level, and tools. [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/concrete/concrete-foundation-forms/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/prepare-building-site/saving-trees-from-construction-damage/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/prepare-building-site/saving-trees-from-construction-damage/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:30:46 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1146 After beginning construction, you will come to the time of building a house that requires you to prepare the lot for foundation placement. If efforts at tree preservation are delayed or ignored until construction begins, they are largely doomed to failure. Wooded lots ust be examined by the prospective homeowner to identify those trees to [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/prepare-building-site/saving-trees-from-construction-damage/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/driveway/culvert-installation/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/driveway/culvert-installation/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:59:19 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1142 Communities having culvert drainage can be found in urban, as well as rural areas. These locations may be unincorporated and have little written engineering guidance, or they may be situated within a city-jurisdiction having specific requirements demanding strict compliance. For this reason, it is essential all construction employees within a community served by culvert drainage [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/driveway/culvert-installation/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/home-plans/preparing-for-construction/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/home-plans/preparing-for-construction/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:56:00 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1139 When preparing to begin construction, you should review this checklist for a guideline to what you should review and plan for during construction. As soon as you have made notification of an Earnest Money contract on a lot, you need to determine unique cost-related issues affecting the potential completion of your home. Some of the [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/home-plans/preparing-for-construction/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/construction-inspection/cultured-stone-installation-checklist/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/construction-inspection/cultured-stone-installation-checklist/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:34:13 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1129 This cultured stone installation checklist is designed to give you an overview of the stages of cultured stone installation and the critical items that should be inspected throughout the process of installation. Cultured Stone Installation Checklist Framing Stage of Cultured Stone Installation Secure 7/16″ OSB at all exterior wall framing surfaces to receive Cultured Stone [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/construction-inspection/cultured-stone-installation-checklist/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/hvac/hvac-rough-in/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/hvac/hvac-rough-in/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:40:59 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1024 HVAC ROUGH IN The HVAC Rough Stage of Building Your Own Home is typically installed after the plumbing top-out is complete and the roof decking is down and the house is dried in. When you are contracting out your home, it is typical that your HVAC contractor furnishes all of the material that is needed [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/hvac/hvac-rough-in/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/financing/construction-financing/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/financing/construction-financing/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:28:23 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1018 Thinking about building a house, but not sure about the often difficult construction loan process? Construction Financing This article about construction financing for owner-builders is for people who are: Building their own home from scratch and will need a construction loan to finance the construction Purchasing land and interested in hiring a custom builder to [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/financing/construction-financing/feed/ 0 http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/cost/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/ http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/cost/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 02:09:47 +0000 Build Your Own Home http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/?p=1010 How Much Does it Cost to Build a House? When deciding if building your own home is going to be the right path for you, the cost per square foot is going to likely be one of the deciding factors on if construction will move forward or if you will be stuck purchasing a home [...]]]> http://www.buildyour-ownhome.com/cost/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/feed/ 2