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re: Advice on building a house?
Posted on 7/31/14 at 3:14 pm to man117
Posted on 7/31/14 at 3:14 pm to man117
We did a custom build a little over a year ago and Im still not sure how to explain the price per square foot we paid.
I designed the house myself and took the plans to 4 builders. Each one tweaked a few things such as adding closets, moving HVAC to different locations, etc, but only on suggested making changes to actually reduce the cost. That's the one we selected.
As for PPSF, I cant really give a specific answer. Our downstairs living are is 2800, we enclosed the attic over the garage and main portion of the home adding another 1200 (mainly because we needed to meet the 4000s/f min), throw in a 900s/f garage and 1010 s/f of porch/patio/outdoor area and that's a total of 5910. If I use that number, my PPSF looks great at $74, use only living (not bonus rooms) then I got screwed at $155.
I designed the house myself and took the plans to 4 builders. Each one tweaked a few things such as adding closets, moving HVAC to different locations, etc, but only on suggested making changes to actually reduce the cost. That's the one we selected.
As for PPSF, I cant really give a specific answer. Our downstairs living are is 2800, we enclosed the attic over the garage and main portion of the home adding another 1200 (mainly because we needed to meet the 4000s/f min), throw in a 900s/f garage and 1010 s/f of porch/patio/outdoor area and that's a total of 5910. If I use that number, my PPSF looks great at $74, use only living (not bonus rooms) then I got screwed at $155.
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Posted on 7/31/14 at 3:22 pm to SippyCup
If you count the bonus stuff as living you're at $109 sqft and the ratio would be 67/33 which is close to the normal 70/30 split. So that puts you right around my range. Mind sharing some of your finishes/more detail? Obviously you built much bigger than I am so that should've helped you with pricing in terms of how well you could finish it.
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