8 Questions to Ask a Construction Company Before Building Your Home

1. 8 Questions to Ask a Construction Company Before Building Your Home

2. For those who plan to have their home custom-built, they’re often intending for it to be their home for the rest of their life, and want it to be everything they’ve ever dreamed of. With this in mind, working with the right construction company becomes imperative, and to find them, here are 8 questions you can ask them: 1. Do you have an architect and designer on your team? It makes the entire home building process a lot easier (and often more cost-effective, too) if your chosen construction company has all the relevant contractors already on their team, so checking for this is an important first question.

3. 2. Have you got experience in building custom homes? Experience is vital when it comes to having your home custom built, and you need to be confident that they’ll carry the work out professionally, and according to your needs and desires. 3. How does your estimating process work? Hopefully your chosen construction company will work with high-end contractors and strive to get you the best price for your project, and you have every right to question them as to how they achieve their estimates.

4. 4. Who will be managing the project? Without a project manager, or someone acting as such, the construction of your home could easily veer off course and run over both schedule and budget, or encounter problems that foresight and planning would have prevented. Find out who will be at site every day and taking control of the build, and the contractors. 5. If I have questions or concerns during the build, who should I address them to? Communication is a vital aspect of any construction project, and you need to understand how you can voice your concerns, whom to, and how they will be addressed.

5. 6. Should any changes or unforeseen conditions occur, how will they be handled? It’s often the case that during customized home builds, changes may need to be made to accommodate market conditions such as material shortages, or even a labor shortage, and you need to how these changes will be handled, and at what cost.

6. 7. How long will it take to complete the project? While the answer will depend on the scale of your customized home, you need to understand how long the project is estimated to take, and if you feel that the timeline seems unrealistic or extremely lengthy, this should be discussed well in advance of the commencement of the construction process. 8. Do you have any references I can check? The answer should be a resounding ‘yes’, but if your custom home builder can’t provide you with any recent references, this may sound a warning bell.

7. Sometimes, the only way to be sure that you’re going to get the home you really want, is to have it custom-built, and provided you take your time selecting a construction company using the guide above, there’s every reason that you’ll get a home you never want to move out of.

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