Our Home Consultants are available to help you choose the best floorplans and features for you and your family. Our quality craftsmanship and the wide array of floorplans to choose from make building your home easier and less-stress inducing than ever before. Building a home with HiLine Homes allows you to truly create the home of your dreams. Homebuyers would rather have the fancy finishes and more square feet versus a better built house.Your house becomes a home when it can suit your specific needs and lifestyle. A production builder would never do 99% of what he does when building a house because most homebuyers don't want to pay for it. I don't think anything he did was bad, but very few have the budget to buy all of the latest and greatest in home building technology. He probably paid less than conventional framing lumber out of pocket.
He said he didn't get the engineered lumber free, but the manufacturer gave him a a substantial discount. The window package had to have a value of $25,000 easily because he used some fancy European windows. In some cases I am sure the material supplier paid to have their materials installed. Many companies donated both materials and time to the project. I watched a lot of his videos on the new house and most of the time I was thinking that almost nobody who had to pay for the materials would do a lot of what he was doing.
#House framer in southern oc code#
I don’t miss that one bit.īeing a shop, you’ll also likely want to hang shelves and other items from walls, building code minimums don’t take into account anything but pictures on the walls.Ĭlick to expand.Matt's new house would easily cost over $500 per square foot if one had to pay regular prices for materials and labor. I lived in a house for years that was built to minimum standards (maybe) and could always judge the wind speed outside by how much the house shook. Make an anonymous inquiry to the building permit dept in your town (or a different town)… In my experience, building inspectors are usually happy to help you out on the front end to prevent a fight later.īuilding to the minimum standard ensures it won’t collapse but doesn’t give you the most enjoyable building. If so you would likely come out ahead just using 5/8 sheathing and/or 16” OC if required. At very least you would likely require blocking between the studs every 4’ with this setup. From your description your situation may qualify for 24” OC if there is no risk of significant snow load however the 1/2 sheathing may not.
Stud spacing and sheathing thickness are determined by the load bearing requirement and height of the wall, and 24”OC is perfectly acceptable in many cases. For most average length walls that will range anywhere from 10 to 20 ft, you may save maybe a couple of studs? It's just not worth the cost savings, which won't be much anyway unless you have some really long wall lengths. From experience, I would definitely recommend going to a standard 16" O/C. The first two out of the four above are the ones that really bug me.
I believe you said this may be a retirement place for you, but still.knowing that any small mistake (a kick, moving furniture, or a grandchild running around on their plastic pedal bike) might mean you having a huge hole to repair. It's also a little strange to know that the drywall is a little more "fragile". If you're at 24" O/C, you have to go to a much larger backplate (which I don't like).
#House framer in southern oc tv#
If you're on the backside of a drawer or microwave, every time you close that door it sounds like you're slamming the drawer (from the other side of the wall).Ģ4" also restricts the amount of stuff you can hang from studs - for example, I hang my TV wall mounts from two studs 16" O/C. I'm talking about closing solid doors, like the ones leading to a garage.Īlso, the 24" spacing also allows the drywall to act even more hollow, letting noise pass through (and even accentuate like a speaker). Every time you close a door, you see the entire wall shake, because there's just not enough mass and rigidity in the wall to restrict impact. I know someone who has 24" O/C framing in their house, with a 9.5 ft ceiling, and I think it's terrible.
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