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How easily can your house be built? Is it constructable?

8/10/2019

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​How easily can your house be built? Constructability of your house will depend on:
  • If you’re doing most of the construction work yourself, then the house should be easily constructed by you. A house that requires complex construction processes, or skills which you don’t possess, might not be constructible for you.
  • The methods that local contractors are familiar with. A house design or construction materials used commonly elsewhere might not be familiar for the local contractors, so it may take longer and cost extra money.
  • The complexity of the design. Having extra-large windows, cantilevers, houses hanging over the edge of cliffs, curved shapes, complex roofs and intricately detailed finishes adds to the difficulty of constructing the house.
  • The actual site. Small, narrow, crowded or steeply sloping properties provide construction challenges to set-up cranes, to place materials and to excavate deep foundations.
  • If your house is on the boundary with your neighbour consider how you’ll be able to access the work areas on the boundary. Your neighbour won’t want you building a scaffold in their property to access your wall, especially if their pool, or much loved rose garden is right where your scaffold needs to be. They also wouldn’t want you walking on their roof. Your neighbour certainly doesn’t want building rubble, including cement mortar, falling into their property, on their garden, in their pool, or where they could be walking. It’s important to consider how you’ll construct the walls and roof that are right on the boundary.
  • Access to the site. Consider if it’s possible for that module, pre-made pool, prefabricated wall or floor, large window or roof section to get to the site.
Having a house that’s difficult to construct will make it more expensive and invariably add to the construction duration. In some cases it might even cause quality problems when difficult work isn’t done properly.
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