How to Avoid Costly Pitfalls When Building a Custom Prefab Home
About this episode
This episode discusses how to avoid common pitfalls in the planning and budgeting stages of building a custom prefab home.
Show Notes:If you’re planning to build a custom panelized home, this episode dives straight into the common pitfalls of the planning and budgeting stages and exactly how you can avoid them. You will learn why relying on cheap, incomplete floor plans often leads to massive schedule delays and budget blowouts when dealing with building departments and unpredicted site challenges. By listening, you will discover the crucial importance of site-specific research—like paying for geotechnical soil reports and verifying fire department access—and how securing a comprehensive, customized structural and architectural design upfront is the ultimate key to staying on budget, keeping on schedule, and successfully building a home that can be passed down for generations. Transcript: Steve Tuma: We are a company that wants to give our customers um a very clear perspective on the realities of building. It takes a lot of time, it’s a second job in in a sense, and there’s there’s always something to work with. Host: Greetings everyone and welcome to episode 87 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me today as always is the president and founder of Landmark…
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