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Building a new house on pilings
Comments (16)Hi... It doesn't look like stvbrown2184 ever provided additional details, and I have a similar situation. The pilings I am considering are to be used on the Gulf coast and are for hurricane and flood related purposes. I'm not sure how deep I need to go but I'm guessing 15' to 18' is what I'll need. Can someone tell me a ball-park figure for wood and fiberglass/composite pilings? I'm looking at a 1080 sq./ft. footprint with 2 stories. Like the original, questioner, it's nothing fancy. Thanks so much!...See MoreBuilding a new home. Not sure about floor plan
Comments (39)The fact remains that neither of those plans is good for a growing family for many reasons. So if you're planning for a family, you can do better. And neither is particularly conducive to the way I would imagine a couple with no kids will want to use their home. (admitting that I have only been part of that "couple with no kids" demographic for about 10 months lol) There is no room for entertaining friends, the first plan has good space for guest room/hobby rooms/office but the second doesn't. The second plan has a practical guest bathroom. In both plans you need to walk 30 ft before you get to a spot to hang your coat or put down the bottle of wine you brought! And good luck getting shoes on and off in that bottleneck....See MoreBuilding a new home, how do you organize all these documents?
Comments (7)Binder. Our builder used builder trend too so we got copies of all invoices and bills sent through that as well as a constantly being updated document showing progress, what remained etc. It was great to see it all. I then printed it all and put major items in binders and other docs into a build folder on our laptop...See MoreBuilding a New Home - Measurements not Matching up with Floor Plan
Comments (27)Am I missing something? The OP went into a home being built that was not his/hers, but was the same base model house. For all we know, the owners of this house made some adjustments to the square footage to reduce costs or something. The OP doesn't know what the room sizes are actually supposed to be because we don't have the plans for the house that was built....See MoreJazz Easy
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