Building Your Own Home?
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Done it twice now..... Both times in a subdivision where the builder was constructing the homes in the subdivision. One thing about the homes built this way is that generally you won't have to worry about stuff breaking and having to pay for it yourself. At least in our case that was true. Both homes had a 1 year warranty. That said, you will also get done and say, "I wish we would have....". All in all though, once it is done, it is nice to have a brand new home. As a piece of advice, string ethernet everywhere you can especially before the walls are up, because it is a lot cheaper to do it then. I put CAT5 in our house 9 years ago, and it has served me well....
Cat5 is so 20th century. I had exactly the same issue with cabling in my place in Melbourne and was about to start drilling holes before sanity kicked in. I just grabbed a wifi router. 400kbs isn't gigabit, but it's been more than enough for what I need, and with gigabit ethernet almost here I'll be happy. (Except that I tried the same gig in our toronto place and for the life of me I can't get my Mac to hold a decent connection to the airport express 3m away. Argh.)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I hope to do so someday, and I'm curious who among you have already done so. Also, what level of involvement did you have? Did you design it with a computer, lay the foundation yourself, paint it yourself, and so on? Or did you hire a bunch of people and give an architect ideas for what you wanted? And how does the cost compare to buying a house that is already built?
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I hope to do so someday, and I'm curious who among you have already done so. Also, what level of involvement did you have? Did you design it with a computer, lay the foundation yourself, paint it yourself, and so on? Or did you hire a bunch of people and give an architect ideas for what you wanted? And how does the cost compare to buying a house that is already built?
I've tried doing designs like that on a computer, but I always ended up spending more effort working on the computer, rather than working on the design. A1 paper and a 0.5 pencil is so much easier to use (but pay top dollar for a scale rule). I do everything myself, then get it certificated, if necessary. Well, except plastering. I've subconsciously convinced myself, over the years, that I can't learn to plaster, so it's unlikely I'll ever be able to get the hang of it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hope to do so someday, and I'm curious who among you have already done so. Also, what level of involvement did you have? Did you design it with a computer, lay the foundation yourself, paint it yourself, and so on? Or did you hire a bunch of people and give an architect ideas for what you wanted? And how does the cost compare to buying a house that is already built?