Does one need any formal education to build their own house? Anyone built their own house?
Can i just purchase materials, land and go watch youtube videos on construction lol?
Thanks.
Does one need any formal education to build their own house? Anyone built their own house?
Can i just purchase materials, land and go watch youtube videos on construction lol?
Thanks.
If you are in a city is where it gets more complicated as county and city code have to be followed.
How good are you at doing something perfectly the first time? How confident are you in laying tile? Or carpet? Or wiring your house so that it doesn't start a fire.
If you lay tiles crooked people will notice, you'll have a hard time selling the house.
You can do the stuff you feel confident at and maybe subcontract to subcontractors like electricians and tile people.
My local community college has classes for construction, mostly to train trades people.
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If you have no clue about statics at least use plans from someone who does or have enough common sense (better check with others) before building your own hourse. Most comes down to hard work if you want to do it alone, but if you have no practical experience better do a lot of research in advance, because you can fuck up the whole thing at the very beginning if you, say use the wrong mixture of concrete. Then it also becomes a serious danger to you and others. Depending on your location most places won't let you build with showing them the plans first anyway,so you are kinda save here.
When it comes to electrical stuff let someone do it who has a clue, seriously, the last thing we need is more morons that build death traps.
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I plan on building my own house in a couple of years unless I can find what I want, I am currently drafting up my own plans. I plan on paying someone up to frame though I will probably do most of the interior work myself, except maybe drywall and painting because I hate doing both those things with a passion.
The best thing to do is to hire an architect. Believe me, it is worth the money.
My wife and I are planning on "building" but have a contractor who has contacts that will do the electrical, plumbing, construction, etc.
The thing that has been so hard is the giant circle of getting things done.
First you have to buy land, right? But in order to know if that land is right for you, you have to find your architect, to get a house plan. And to see if it's all in the budget, you get the house plan to your contractor, who will spec it out and give you a cost estimate. And then by the time that happens, someone else bought the land you were looking at.
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If you have no experience in any kind of trade work don't even bother, I used to be an electrician and honestly last thing we need is someone trying to wire a house without a clue as to what they're doing. Let alone I doubt you'd be able to lay a foundation or build the house itself along with plumbing/heating/AC/electrical/Septic or Sewage/Well etc. If you're really interested in it I suggest you put some time into a trade to get the feeling for it. The one thing I hated more than anything is going into a home to see some DIYer with no experience or even basic understanding of electricity try to install or modify something.
Probably, still if you have even a tiny leak in a wall it can ruin the whole wall and cause mold or strutural weaking. If you are confident you did it properly then that is fine, I'm just saying it's something to watch out for. Certainly another level than "glueing" tiles to the floor.
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