Home Build Advise, Palm Coast Fl.

[flabum1017]

My sister and her husband did theirs in six months with material shortage after the three hurricanes back in '04? They were their own contractors (she works for Carpenter Contractors Lakeland). I helped with the interior. No way you can tell me a big company will take 9 months to build a house they can in two weeks in a development. Maybe it's run by Bill Gohr.

[mjw930]

A lot of it's due to contractual obligation. They commit to the 9 month timeline legally but many get completed well ahead of schedule. Ours came in around 7 months and would have been done earlier had there not been an issue with a couple of trades having to redo work. It's their dependency on outside subs that drives the contracts. Not saying it's right, just that it's the way they work around here.

The biggest flaw in the residential building industry, IMHO is their insistance that there's only 1 trade on the property at a time. You don't see that kind of practice in commercial construction, they work to deadlines with penalties for late delivery so they are far more efficient.

[INXS]

Saw some cleared land at the end of my community, just looked it up, 511 homes going up, a marina, dry rack also, and 160K ft of retail, food and shops. Saw two more cleared sections on the next road over, not hard to figure another 1K homes or more going to be built. 60 million dollar up scale ocean front hi rise going in down the road. Whole area is prime up scale, no rift raft, LOL just some rich snobs!

[INXS]

[INXS]

Cement block, about 2600 sq ft heated space.

[INXS]

Same as model shown except we shaved off about 200 sq ft for it to fit on the lot.

[INXS]

Could be they just want to leverage their work out over a longer period rather then adding on to their crew. The larger bit more upscale neighbor-community is Grand Haven. The have a great golf course I hear, about $500 a month hoa though, I pay about $115. Anyway getting back to Grand Haven, they are building a 511 home community just to the south of my community, might have mentioned it, 80+ wet marina, 200 dry rack storage. Lot of demand for skilled workers.

[Markus]

The biggest flaw in the residential building industry, IMHO is their insistance that there's only 1 trade on the property at a time.

That's absolutely ridiculous - you mean that plumber, electrician and carpenter cannot all be on the property at the same time?

[XstreamVking]

You do realize what a cluster it would be with concrete guys pouring slabs, a carpenter trying to build walls while the electrician is trying to run wires in them, all the while the plumber is trying to install his pipes and tubing. There is such a thing as scheduling. A good company builds with the completion of one stage at a time. Also at completion of certain stages the inspectors have to sign off. I subbed my own house, I tried to have only one contractor on the job at a time. Sometimes could work with two, but never three....

[mjw930]

That's absolutely ridiculous - you mean that plumber, electrician and carpenter cannot all be on the property at the same time?

Yep, that's what it means. While it's not cut a dry, the excuse given is they get in each other's way so doing them sequentially instead of in parallel is more efficient. I call a BS on that too and if I were GC on a project I'd make sure they all played nice but were all working alongside whenever possible.

[XstreamVking]

You wouldn't be a GC, you would end up being a referee......They never are gonna play nice together. They don't have time to wait while someone else is in the way....Time is money and max efficiency while on the job site is key to making the most money, and the most of your time. Not to mention doing the best quality work possible requires your crew not being interrupted constantly.