Monday 28 May 2007

What do you need to build your own house?

There is no clear references (and if there are, then it is not well promoted) on how one can build a house. Well, common sense says that you need a land of your own, and design, and of course money. but how about processes if you have all?

I for one, was lucky in the sense that my mom left me a piece of land to build a house, and together with my wife, we have some savings so part 1 & 3 above are covered. We do have our own thoughts about how it'll look like but sought a professional architect to realise our thoughts to the design plan and get approval from authorities.

Once you got that, then it's time to choose your contractor - you have to ask around, look at current house constructions and ask the workers who their boss are. in our case, our architect has a list of contractors and he told us which contractors build the current constructions so we could see for ourself the quality of work. Just our luck, a friend of mind just had her house completed and we looked at the workmanship, and it was good. So we asked around and i think about more than 10 houses by the same contractor (some which was completed over 7 years ago) and they have no complaints with the contractor except for the price. We were also told that the contractor is very pro-active in helping us choosing material, and making necessary changes to the design. So, we decided to go along with him! Other contractors were cheaper but, from our queries (to the disgruntled owners of course) is that they had arguments with the owners and some owners had to drag the contractors to court (due to unreasonable delays) and quite funny but true, in one construction of a friend's house, halfway during the construction, the contractor decide to only communicate with the owner by SMS following an argument!

Anyway, enough for now and my next blog would then be, OUR HOUSE!

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