"The Next Steps"

Your next steps to your new home!

You have already made the first step to getting into your new Solid Wood Home by visiting our web site. Building a home is an exciting time and one you should enjoy. The following is an idea of what you will need to do next.

Choosing Your Home
1. Purchase or find land. If you don’t own your land you can close on the land and your home simultaneously with our mortgage partners.
2. Get pre-approved from your lender for your home and set your building budget.
3. Choose your Solid Wood Home design and provide a deposit. You will need to sign a contract and provide 10% of the Solid Wood Home package price. Subsequently you will receive blueprints to get started with a contractor.
4. Select a contractor/ builder and set your building budget.
5. General contractor will pull building permits or you will need to pull permits if you are self contracting, then have a perk test completed (a test of your soil for septic system).
6. Finalize financing for your home and close on your mortgage.

Shell Construction / Dry-In Option
7. Contractor will prepare the building site, which may include clearing, grading and staking off your home.
8. The first step in construction is laying the foundation. Most common is a slab foundation or crawl space. Our homes are suitable for slab, pier or piling foundations, although other types may be available.
9. Arrival of your Solid Wood Home. The trucks will arrive and our carriers will unload the home, placing it safely on the ground for your contractor to begin.
10. Dry-in begins. Next, the contractor will begin construction on the structure. This will involve building the sub-floor (if applicable), raising the pre-constructed walls, building out the interior stud walls, building porches, setting trusses, and laying sheathing and felt.

At this point, the shell or dry-in option is complete. If this is the level of completion contracted with the builder, it would now be turned over to you.

Turnkey / Finish Option
11. Roofing completed. Shingles laid or metal roofing installed.
12. Rough-in mechanicals installed, which include wiring for electricity, plumbing, and HVAC vents.
13. Paint or stain exterior, depending on the style you have chosen.
14. Begin finish work with drywall, priming, painting and trim work. HVAC equipment and insulation will also be installed.
15. Finally, all flooring, cabinetry, interior doors, counter tops, fixtures and other finish details will be installed.

At this point, the Turnkey or Finish option is complete. The home is complete.