Establishing a Homebuilding Schedule
| The setting of a construction schedule is an integral part of being your own contractor, and you get many benefits from doing it yourself. When you are the owner and builder of your home, the pace that it is constructed is entirely up to you but it takes a certain amount of time to do any job safely and correctly. |
If you are on a tight schedule and need to finish by a particular day, then you must follow your construction schedule carefully. Make a list of all the facets of the construction, major and minor, listing the maximum time that each will take. This will give you some extra room to work should you finish any project early.
This is an especially important step to take early on because it complements the budgeting of your homebuilding. If your home needs to be complete by a particular day and you aren’t able to finish it, you may have to hire additional help in order to expedite the building process which will, almost certainly, increase the overall cost of your home.
It is important to schedule all your sub-contractors in a fashion that their work does not overlap, and you don’t have something completed to hastily. For example, you don’t want to start dry walling before the electric conduit is all in place. A rough example of a schedule would be:
- Foundation
- Framing
- Roof
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Drywall and finishing
While this is a rough example, you will want to discuss your schedule will all tradesman involved, and formulate a plan so all workers are in place at the appropriate times.
Setting a schedule and closely following it is just another way to manage the costs of your project. A schedule can also help you to foresee cost overruns further down the line.
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