Process Essay

How to build your own single house

       Building a single house for your own is such an exciting and memorable experience in your life time. You can choose your favorite materials, colors and organize your own living space. Maybe you have been dreaming since you were a little kid. But a number of people believed that building a house needs so much more time and effort than purchasing an existing house or town house. It is true that a future home owners have to spend their time to hire several working crews and coordinate all the construction process and research all materials and codes and regulations even getting a permission for construction ”which materials will harmonize with others?” However, building a single family house will be successful if you follow certain steps.

First, it is important to start with enough budgets, so you don’t have to stop construction during the process due to the shortage of your money. It will impact the whole construction process and makes delayed placing order and results of extra costs.

Next, research a good location of land with a good neighborhood and surrounding. And purchase it with your experienced friend. Certainly, you need to consider many environmental factors such as noise, traffic, and cultural and educational facilities. If one of these factors isn’t satisfying you, don’t worry about it. The first priority is getting your nice house.

Once a land has been prepared, hire a trust and experienced architect and general contractor who can be responsible for all designing and construction process.

After the architect and general contractor have been hired, you have to deliver your original idea what materials, fixtures, items and spaces have been dreamed and convey your idea to them well. It could real as your sweet home.

Be careful not to persist your original thinking since the colors and sizes are different and the unit price for space may more expensive than your budgets. You can find a lot of alternates to satisfy your preference and it might be better than your original idea. You can trust your architect and general contractor and they can do their professional works best to coordinate during the whole processes.

Finally, you may better check and inspect from time to time at the construction site before finishing every important works and make proofs to ask a responsibility if some of works went wrong such as taking pictures and inspect with special inspectors. And then you can back and force with your architect and general contractor.

Once you have followed these steps, you are ready to have your own sweet home and dream will come true!