01-14-2008, 08:44 AM
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Originally posted by Hotzcatz
If you are doing the work yourself, then it is the cost of the materials plus the septic, grading (unless you are doing that yourself), plumbing and electrical work. Do a rough estimate for the materials and required subcontractors and add a bit for stuff you forgot to put in and that's pretty much your ballpark figure.
You can get a permit for single wall construction, it is entirely legal. I had a set of plans go through the Building Department last year for a small (under 500 square feet) house in single wall without any corrections at all. The owner hired a couple carpenters to help and her house is done now.
Thanks! We don't plan to do that much of it ourselves. We know we can do all of the painting since we did that on our present house and we're pretty sure we can do things like install kitchen cabinets and lay the tile counters since we've done that before, too. We can also do some other minor things, but the majority of the hard work we will sub out.
What I'm wondering is even if you factor out the work we're doing ourselves how do you think the cost for what we have planned compares to build the more common style home with less pitch to the roof, 8 ft. ceilings, double wall construction, etc.?
As you mentioned, we don't anticipate any problems with getting approval to build a single-wall home, so we're just wondering about the cost comparison per sf.