Things to Consider When Building a Home

STEPS INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF HOME CONSTRUCTION:

In general following steps are involved in the home construction process. These are the things you need to consider when you have planned to build a home.

1) Preliminary Budget: First you need to decide the preliminary cost you are willing to spend for your home building project.

2) You need to allocate or purchase a land plot for your home. Doing so you need to consider the geographical conditions of that area. While choosing the site for your home you need to make sure:
· The home site is safe from flood line zone or safe from theft possibilities.
· The transport of home building material can be done easily at your site.
· Water, electricity, drainage points are easily available near home building site.

3) Home Plans: The moment we think about building a dream home, the first thing comes into mind is homeplans. Home Plan is a preliminary picture of how your house will look like. In another posting, HOMEPLANS, of this blog you will find the factors you need to consider while choosing Home Plans.

4) Once you have decide the home plan, you have to take various permissions from local government authorities, like home building permission from municipal corporation, clearance from electricity board, water authorities etc.

5) Choosing Contractor and bidding them with a Home Building Contract. In the post, I have tried to explain detail information like things to consider while choosing Home Contractors, different type of contracts for different stages of house construction process like home structure, electricity, plumbing, interior decoration, garden and landscaping etc., clauses to be included in the contract and so on. Please view this post for more.

6) Material List: You need to prepare a list of Home Building Material by sitting with your contractor. This will depend on what type of contract (including or excluding material) you have assigned to your contractor. Please check detail information in another post – Material Procurement.

7) Home Finance / Home Loans: At this stage you will have clearer picture about the budget (the money you need to spend for home building) for your home. Accordingly you can look for various sources for home finance.

8) Making Preliminary Facilities available at the home construction site like water connection from municipal corporation or digging water well, electrical connection from power authority in your area etc.

9) Starting the house construction and keeping an eye at the progress of various stages of construction phases.