re: How did they build all those houses so fast off Burbank by BREC?

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You mean the shoddy homes with <$150/mo electric bills during the summer and are easy to cool to 72° even when it's 100° outside?

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Yeah the ones built with really shitty lightweight materials and trusses held together with very fragile gusset plates. But congrats on that energy efficiency though. I’d rather live in a house that won’t get blown over by a strong gust of wind, especially in south Louisiana.

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Yeah the ones built with really shitty lightweight materials and trusses held together with very fragile gusset plates. But congrats on that energy efficiency though. I’d rather live in a house that won’t get blown over by a strong gust of wind, especially in south Louisiana.

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Ida brought 60mph winds through my neighborhood for several hours. Power was out 7 days. Came back on just before Kickoff against Sissy Blue UCLA. But not a shingle was lost. I guess it sounded good in your head.

All basically the same plan.

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My beef with DLSD is that their neighborhoods tend to transition very quickly

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They sell houses to their employees, and those employees then rent them out and that's all hell breaks loose.

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Jesus

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average time for cookie cutter houses is 3-4 weeks or less to go from dirt lot to be move in ready.

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I am not going to speak to your situation as I have no idea on location, when this took place, or size of the home, but there is no way in hell you are going from dirt to move in ready in 4 weeks in this day and age, and likely not in the last 20 years within a municipality.

Taking the most aggressive, lucky time-table possible and assuming the lot is graded, and its a 3/2 1500 ft home you are looking at the following at minimum:


-4 days to form, plumb, rebar, inspect, pour and 24 hour cure ready for framing.
-5-7 days for walls, wall sheering, roof rafters, roof decking, comp shingle roofing
-4-7 days for trade rough in, inspections. (Exterior doors and windows, Hardi, brick, stucco, etc on going). Insane but maybe doable.
-2 days for insulation and energy inspection. (Exterior continues)
-4 days for drywall, float tape texture (again, insane)
-7-10 days to hang trim, int doors, cabinets, install counters, paint interior and exterior, tile shower and tub walls and maybe bathroom floors. (again, insane and unlikely, but possible if no oil based paint is used and its above 65 deg)

In a perfect world, you are at 4 weeks with no final flooring, no final trades, no appliances, no driveway (not cured anyway), no sod, no clean-up, no dumpster and porta-potty removal, no final electrical meter, and no final inspection and certainly no certificate of occupancy. And it didn't rain, they worked 7 days a week including Sundays and a lot of nights, trades worked expediently with other trades up their arse (and vice versa) inspectors showed up and passed inspection the morning after work was completed, and there was not one issue with materials, labor, design, engineering, or one single delay amongst 7-10 subcontractors with their own scheduling, labor and material issues.

Not even the dumbass remodeling shows pretend this is possible. Well, some do, but...Hollywood.

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My point stands, if you didn’t flood in 2016 you are less likely to flood next time

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My neighborhood east of Bluebonnet did not flood in 2016 but did flood in 2021.

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I am not going to speak to your situation as I have no idea on location, when this took place, or size of the home, but there is no way in hell you are going from dirt to move in ready in 4 weeks in this day and age, and likely not in the last 20 years within a municipality.

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I have to agree about the time frame in going from dirt to move in in 4 weeks... it takes longer than 4 weeks to deal with the parish in getting permits, inspections, final occupancy, etc.

My post:

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quote:All I did was post that the subdivisions built along Burbank East of Bluebonnet didn’t flood in 2016. If I’m wrong correct me, ...

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I'm still trying to figure out which neighborhoods we're referencing. A massive portion of the area east of Bluebonnet and south of Highland flooded in 2016 (and again in 2021). Many of the new houses probably avoided flood water in 2021 due to the house pads being raised. But the streets and many cars were underwater in the University Villas and Pelican Lakes subdivisions.

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Pelican Lakes and University Villas are both way WEST of Bluebonnet. I’m addressing the homes along BayouFountain and along Burbank EAST of Bluebonnet.

This includes that new development at the Burbank curve, Lakes at Bluebonnet, and Bluebonnet Highlands (next to Walmart along Bluebonnet). To the best of my knowledge these properties (homes) didn’t flood in 2016. If I’m wrong let me know.