Has anyone here built a code compliant house from scratch by yourself including the foundation?
How did you do it and how much did it cost?
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DIY House
Has anyone here built a code compliant house from scratch by yourself including the foundation?
How did you do it and how much did it cost?
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Yes, with my tools and some help from friends, $215,000.
What kinds of materials? Size?
I added a room to my existing house, did everything from the foundation up, included a bathroom. Took about 15-18 months, cost about $35/sq.ft.? This was roughly 20 years ago.
How did you guys build the foundation? Did you dig the hole out with a shovel?
Rent a backhoe or bobcat, depending on soil, size of foundation sq ftn abd depth
What type of foundation, it's usually divided into two parts, footings and then your slab, but depends on whether you want a basement, things change
I'm this guy
, I did this
. Dug the footers with a tractor mounted backhoe, then excavated a crawl space with the bobcat. Used a ready mix company for the footers, then laid concrete block for the foundation walls. I grew up on a farm though and had used both pieces of equipment some before, but I'm no expert.
shut up
if you are trying to do estimation I can help. just need the floor plan and a list of materials.
Not OP, but my thoughts dwell on something like picrel for the floor plan, since with the right roof it could be copied to expand the house. Material thoughts are just standard construction lumber, drywall, and vinyl siding, but I don't know if there's something better
I think my state has some law where if you build everything yourself, no building codes apply and it's automatically approved.
>I think my state has some law where if you build everything yourself, no building codes apply and it's automatically approved.
and as usual this ridiculous claim does not include the name of the state.
Even if it does, be careful thinking it means you can just cut corners. When you go to sell, you could find yourself screwed when it fails an inspection under IRBC. More and more lenders require such an inspection before they will give the buyer a mortgage on the property.
Sure, if you don't mind not being able to sell it for more than the improved land value. Nobody wants a hacked together shack that they'll have to demolish, and even if they did, good luck finding a mortgage lender willing to give a loan.
inb4:
>"It's gonna be super strong and good tho bro, I just don't wanna frick with the code BS"
I have never seen anyone get all excited about no building codes, and then proceed to build a nice solid house.
It's the de-facto reality in many rural areas. I'm in rural PA, and while legally I must get a permit and inspections and build to code, literally nobody is going to care. People build all kinds of stuff out here. The issue comes when you go to sell the property, and the house (nobody cares about garage/shed/barn/etc) is a shitty hack-job. Then you're fricked.
>I'm in rural PA, and while legally I must get a permit and inspections and build to code,
so the part about "my state has some law ...no codes apply" was the pile of horseshit I thought it was. I've only met 3 people in my life from PA, rural or not, and they were all idiots. So now it appears to be 4.