>>2960752No but i've built a good amount of houses at work from the ground up. I want to build my own house one day. Actually looking at a block of land right now that i might buy and build a house on.
>>2960752when i was homeless i built a primitive cabin innawoods , does that count?
>>2960752Built a room addition to mine, from foundation to roof.
>>2960797Same here, I've built other people's houses but not my own yet
Yes
I'm another yes. 500 ish sq ft. it's often frustrating and not worth it to post about it on here and /out/ as well unless answering a very specific question or something.inbred armchair reacionists with nothing better to do just shit up the threads where anyone actually making it posts anything by picking out something stupid, barelty relevant and not letting it go searching for reactionsyou gotta want it. im 36, no banks or loans are involved, but its possible
>>2962951I'm the anon above you. Very similar. 640sqft, built on parent's land (which was on their loan) then paid off the loan and bought if from them. It's cozy. 1st child's on the way. I hope it's enough space for the next few years.
>>2960797>>2961740Add another to the pile..But I've also built alternative structures that were lived in by myself and others.PROTIP: Geodesic domes really kind of SUCK to live in.>>2961509By my book, yeah, it counts.>>2962951Good for you, anon. While I sure don't want a plebbitard hugbox, it seems the nuvohomo assholes think that this place was always just trolling and shitpoasting, due to all the flameb0ts, shills and everything from the last what is it , 8 years, 9 years, 10?>>2963006BASEDI have been a staunch advocate here and other venues of anons doing this. Just like with an economy of scale, the same is possible with land, equipment and people with skills and ability.
>>2960752Finishing up a 1400 sqft addition solo except electric What do you want to know
>>2960752My dad andalotof people in the country I was bornbuilt houses all the time My dad built a lot of his brother's house who was working abroad,And my dad was a high school biology teacher Not really a big deal
>>2963053>Not really a big dealIn our parent's generation homebuilding was a lot simpler than it is now. Less inspections, simpler engineering requirements, simpler materials... not saying it's impossible now but the houses we build now are a lot different to those of 50 years ago
>>2963082Whats different other than cheaper shittier materials.Old houses are not cheap. Its all built for artifical scarcity of investor class.You can live 100 year old house but you cant build the same thing today because of "safety". Its a laughable concept.
>>2963006nice. 2017/18 i stumbled into a building that was set to be demolished so the foundation could be re-used. it was a 3 story stick frame unfinished barn/garage attached to a small house. Permission was granted basically immediately when I asked to take it apart and some pretty deep soul searching followed. I got about 2 stories, the roof, and a lot of interior before the excavators came.My ex sued me in 2021 for my house i bought with her, I built my current house during covid while i defended myself till they settled and paid me, finished the septic this year. every time i post about it people give me shit for "taking so long"worthless fuckin place, largelybut occasionally theres like an ok thread or two. mostly come here just to be mean so i can be nice to people irl.
>>2960752fortunately not, its a bitch ass job.but i have done every part of it. me and my family doubled the size of our cabin, i tore down and rebuildt my apartment, i have worked in construction, i have done it all. building a house is kind of a common skill for norwegian rurals, its straight out expected of you to know it. you might not be the best at anything, you might be a framer kind of guy, but your friends might be roofer or plumber and together you finish a house in a week.house i currently live in was self-buildt in the late 50s and im gonna rebuild it all with time.
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>>2962951Here's a specific question:With the intention of cutting costs, which tasks in house-building could an average guy do, and which tasks should be left to professionals?
>>2960752I didn't build my home but when I was 18 my summer job was helping my friend's dad build their home.
>>2963082This sounds like a load of bullshit.I watched a house go up across the street from me. Apart from the engineered beams they used, the only big differences are better wiring and a complicated HVAC. This is compared to my 120 yo house which has retrofitted electrical and no AC.So I'm wondering what you think is more complicated these days?
>>2960752I bought an old fixer and didn't plan on rebuilding the entire fucking thing but after 3 years I've basically had to rebuild it from the inside out, foundation and all. Which, arguably, is more difficult then building a new house from scratch. Basically the only thing left from the original house now is some of the framing and the exterior siding
>>2965786A city inspector had to come by and approve it every couple days and get paid off. Often they just want money and will just make up shit on the spot to make you pay them to come out again and redo thousands of dollars in work if you haven't paid them enough.120 years ago you.could have just built it and let it fall in on you and burn your family alive if you were too dumb to build it. Now the inspector comes and approves it and shrugs that it's not his liability if the building falls in and burns you to death after he signed off onnit.
>>2960752My dad and mom did, partly (he still hired some workers from time to time)I helped him here and there
>>2961509Based
>>2967811Damn, how deep in the hole were you after all of it?
>>2965746there is nothing a professional can do that you can't if you seriously try.they just go fast enough to make moneywith that said, trucking the machines I rented would be about it. i dont maintain a CDL. plumbing, electrical, septic, interior... there is very little you need others for. i needed help for putting in the screw piles i built on, and someone to hold wall sections vertical while I drove the first few fasteners.rafters by yourself sucks, but is possible. some of these things were one person jobs due to building design; i.e. ceiling joists all the way across the entire building makes doing the roof without a crane possibleland came with septic plans, to become a certified installer i had to do online modules and pass a test at 70% or higher. a joke
>>2965746I paid off the land before i started the house, and all the big lumber, roof, heater, and a bunch of other stuff was reclaimed, but I've done it entirely with cash on hand, no borrowing.
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>>2967815>get paid offNot sure where you are, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but when I built my addition the inspectors were all cool. In fact, the electrical guy let me slide on a circuit that I put in that wasn't current code, said that's how they did it when he was an electrician, so he let it go. The general inspector was a wealth of knowledge, very patient with my questions, and happy to help. All that said, I made it obvious that I wasn't trying to get by with anything, I kept the site clean and orderly, and I was polite and respectful. If it's normal to have to pay off inspectors, then why hasn't someone just recorded the transaction and sued the city?
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>>2969999Wasted get.
>>2960752I've only done small amounts of helping on one when I was a child. My much older cousin, a welder by trade, was building a home each for himself and his in laws. Both houses were large two floor log cabins with a sort of basement-ish garage for each, built in the mountains about a 45 minute drive from town. Both places came out great but he ended up losing his when he ruined his marriage over not getting back to having lots of sex immediately after their son was born, he's since repeated the process of marrying and building a house then doing something dumb and losing it in the divorce two more times, the third time he instead just lost the BDSM club he was trying to run for a side business. At this point he's not building anymore and has a more stable marriage at least.
>>2960797If you were going to build your own, what would you do differently from what you've done with work?
>>2970244Not the anon you replied to but a few things I'd do for building my own home is frame the whole house 2 x 6 redwood, I don't care how much it costs. Conduit runs instead of romex, all copper pipes no PEX microplastic shit. Metal roof. And plyboard on every single interior wall before drywall goes up, for shear strength, better sound isolation, and so I can hang anything on any wall without needing to find a stud
New place has a 27' X 40' foundation, with power, and plumbed w water and septic.Currently has a shitty shit I'm using to store wood on. And what's left of my Observatory. I think they used to keep a fifth wheel on there judging from the ruts they left in the lawn last year.Have always wanted to do my own timberframe in a hammerbeam design ~1500 sqftIt's near a property line but I'm not sure what offsets are allowed. There's already a building west of it that is about 4 ft from the property line so I'm assuming that's the allowable limit
>>2971870Has a couple of apple trees off to one side and the other side by the fence has a nice plum trees I don't want to get rid of.
>>2970378that's all goodexcept the copper>pexI RO my drinking water, simple as. pex is just fantastic in every other way
