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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631043
06/29/26 04:13 PM
06/29/26 04:13 PM
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I'd have them make a couple Berms at 100 and 500 yaahds..

Then just shoot off the porch.

Last edited by Nessmuck; 06/29/26 04:15 PM.

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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631072
06/29/26 05:40 PM
06/29/26 05:40 PM
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Beautiful nothing like rural living to get as far from people as possible.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631186
06/29/26 11:10 PM
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Sounds like a nice house plan.
But that looks like tornado country.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631253
06/30/26 08:10 AM
06/30/26 08:10 AM
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Nebraska
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It is definitely Boco, lived here all my life. Typically walk out on the porch to see if you can catch a glimpse. I did suggest reinforcing below the stairs as multiple times I’ve seen the staircase be all that’s standing on a slab, but the contractors say it’s not recommended. We will definitely have something reinforced, if nothing else a shelter bolted to the slab. They made a little progress yesterday. If the rain relaxes for a couple weeks should have concrete and footings soon.

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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631268
06/30/26 09:05 AM
06/30/26 09:05 AM
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Congrats. I get the overwhelming part. I've been custom home builder for over 35 years. Whenever it feels like your dealing with too much, stop and think things through 1 room at a time. Can sound crazy, but you can never imagine how many times I had buyers close their eyes and visualize 1 room or 1 wall.

Few things I design standard in every home I build:

42" entry door
All hallways are minimal 43" rough
36" interior doors
If its your "forever" home, design in blocking for hand rails, grab bars, and the things that make end of life easier. think of a w3alker or wheelchair. Additionally, plan out your closets and bathrooms and put blocking in for all your accessories - shelves, towel bars, paper holders and so on

If you consider plastic windows to save a little $$, do yourself a huge favor and bump it up just a little and go with the fiberglass/composite Pella Impervia. Well worth it. frames are so much more stable than vinyl.
If your installers use big-gap foam or open cell to seal the windows and doors - fire them! Low rise/minimal expanding closed cell only

AIR SEAL!!!!! Can not emphasize this enough. $4-5K invested in proper air sealing and improved insulation practices will pay you back thousands in energy costs.

Do mechanical walk-throughs before rough in and think out room by room exactly how you'll use things. Don't accept "code compliant" When you walk into a room, where is the switch for lights...what do you turn on first, another switch for ceiling fan, are they switched separate, are the top halves of the outlets switched to turn on lamps?? Are the outlets spaced so they are accessible from your furniture layout ?? Do you need floor outlets?

Ask for a roof venting calculation from your builder. The vast majority of municipalities don't require it and the roofers/siding applicators just guess and never take 3 minutes to run the calc. If it isn't balanced, you get negative flow out your soffit vents and costs big dollars to run A/C. I've seen many homes blowing hot air down into the insulation instead of rising up through a ridge vent.
https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/roofing/components/vent-calculator

Don't let any contractor use silicone caulk on any anything exterior. Use a urethane based caulk like Quad or Vulkem. Sillycone fails in a few years and you'll create future problems. Its cheap, so everyone uses it IF they seal their penetrations. If you need to, buy 10 tubes and have it on hand for them to use and demand no silicone.

anyways, just a couple thoughts. If you get hung up on anything, give me a shout. Be more than happy to assist


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Re: Building a new house [Re: Randy Wieland] #8631342
06/30/26 12:58 PM
06/30/26 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Randy Wieland
Congrats. I get the overwhelming part. I've been custom home builder for over 35 years. Whenever it feels like your dealing with too much, stop and think things through 1 room at a time. Can sound crazy, but you can never imagine how many times I had buyers close their eyes and visualize 1 room or 1 wall.

Few things I design standard in every home I build:

42" entry door
All hallways are minimal 43" rough
36" interior doors
If its your "forever" home, design in blocking for hand rails, grab bars, and the things that make end of life easier. think of a w3alker or wheelchair. Additionally, plan out your closets and bathrooms and put blocking in for all your accessories - shelves, towel bars, paper holders and so on

If you consider plastic windows to save a little $$, do yourself a huge favor and bump it up just a little and go with the fiberglass/composite Pella Impervia. Well worth it. frames are so much more stable than vinyl.
If your installers use big-gap foam or open cell to seal the windows and doors - fire them! Low rise/minimal expanding closed cell only

AIR SEAL!!!!! Can not emphasize this enough. $4-5K invested in proper air sealing and improved insulation practices will pay you back thousands in energy costs.

Do mechanical walk-throughs before rough in and think out room by room exactly how you'll use things. Don't accept "code compliant" When you walk into a room, where is the switch for lights...what do you turn on first, another switch for ceiling fan, are they switched separate, are the top halves of the outlets switched to turn on lamps?? Are the outlets spaced so they are accessible from your furniture layout ?? Do you need floor outlets?

Ask for a roof venting calculation from your builder. The vast majority of municipalities don't require it and the roofers/siding applicators just guess and never take 3 minutes to run the calc. If it isn't balanced, you get negative flow out your soffit vents and costs big dollars to run A/C. I've seen many homes blowing hot air down into the insulation instead of rising up through a ridge vent.
https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/roofing/components/vent-calculator

Don't let any contractor use silicone caulk on any anything exterior. Use a urethane based caulk like Quad or Vulkem. Sillycone fails in a few years and you'll create future problems. Its cheap, so everyone uses it IF they seal their penetrations. If you need to, buy 10 tubes and have it on hand for them to use and demand no silicone.

anyways, just a couple thoughts. If you get hung up on anything, give me a shout. Be more than happy to assist


X2, I did an electrical drawing in my plans and marked everything on the floor w/electrician in each room.

Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8631364
06/30/26 01:57 PM
06/30/26 01:57 PM
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If you plan on putting up christmas lights add some exterior weatherproof gfi outlets in your eaves. Run them separate from other outlets so your not popping breakers.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8654801
08/31/26 07:50 PM
08/31/26 07:50 PM
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Nebraska
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Have been pretty busy with work and life. We?ve got a crazy amount of rain here for our area most of the summer. Finally have concrete pad poured. It was a process for them getting it poured. Floor heat, rough in electric, and rough in plumbing complete. They just finished the porch concrete.

Waiting on the shell to arrive, hopefully mid September. Exterior doors are ordered. They estimate 2-3 weeks to get the shell up with roof and hopefully the interior framing.

I have a level of respect for people that do this all day everyday. I?m one and done. Had to wait for the pond to dry up a few times.

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The process of floor heat was interesting.

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Ground shrinkage is a real thing looking at a slab. Had to get out the tape a few times.

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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8654812
08/31/26 08:07 PM
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If you don't mind, tell us the cost per square foot for the construction.

An upscale stick-built home with a basement in my area can run around $206 per square foot.

Re: Building a new house [Re: charles] #8654827
08/31/26 08:38 PM
08/31/26 08:38 PM
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It would be around $175 a square foot based off our final estimates. Suspect that to increase by the end. We do have a few things we?d like to add that aren?t huge costs but I?d rather add before it?s all complete. We were in the 300 and up per square foot on stick build estimates.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8654842
08/31/26 09:02 PM
08/31/26 09:02 PM
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Congrats wade ! We just moved into our new house last June it is pretty hectic at times making decisions with your contractor but we r so happy to be here now ?. You won?t regret the in floor heat it?s one of the best choices we made ?

Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655205
09/01/26 08:20 PM
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looks good so far, good luck with the timing part coming up, one thing off and screws up everything

Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655254
09/01/26 09:59 PM
09/01/26 09:59 PM
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Good luck and good call with the in floor heating. I wouldn't built that far north without it.

By the way I grew up just south of Hiawatha.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655270
09/01/26 10:57 PM
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You will like the floor heat.
I discovered that my Sister in law Wendy worked with you in the prison in Tecumseh. Small world.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655342
09/02/26 07:41 AM
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Congrats. Looks like a real nice location. We?re in our 2nd custom home. My only input is be friendly, but remember the contractor works for you. We were happy with who we used, but when closing started to shift a little bit, I had to hold my ground and they stepped up. Found some minimal things while building that I didn?t like and made sure that it was fixed real time and not covered up or looked over. I?m sure that these little things would have ?met code? or whatever, but I didn?t like it or wanted it changed and wanted it done. I made sure that he understood my expectations before the construction started.

Not sure if this is a thing outside of the South, but my driveway is just at a 1/2 mile. We went with ground asphalt and I haven?t touched it since it was done. They take old asphalt from road work and it?s ground fine, then spread and rolled over. The summer heat melts enough of the old tar that it basically binds back together for the most part. No real dirt or sand to wash out when it rains. Very maintenance free to this point.

Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655352
09/02/26 08:09 AM
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Nebraska
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Gary some days I miss the prison. There were a lot of good people in medical. I worked contract there as needed for about 8 years, both riots during that time. Was a wild world, I?ve heard they moved most of the violent offenders mainly back to Lincoln for staffing. Not sure if death row is still in Tecumseh. Wendy is a good egg. I almost went there full time but the state can?t keep up with private when it comes to compensation.

Dahlgren, I?m just going to roll with the punches but have the timeline for ordering done the best I can do the rest is on them.

Gunn, we do have asphalt millings intermittently available here and I have considered that. If I can get them I will. The crushed brick has really packed down nice with the traffic I might end up finishing with it. Time will tell.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8655853
09/03/26 01:08 PM
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you did right you got started and the best of luck to ya. take care.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: charles] #8656239
09/04/26 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by charles
If you don't mind, tell us the cost per square foot for the construction.

An upscale stick-built home with a basement in my area can run around $206 per square foot.


FYI - per sqft costs is mostly a joke when used as comparison UNLESS - Same plan, same written specifications, same options, and absolutely zero variance or substitutions in bids from different builders. For over 35 years I had prospective clients come to me and ask sqft cost and go on to talk about builder X,Y, and Z' prices. All I could do is ask how much per pound did they pay for their car... Interesting that a Toyota Camry weighs similar to a Maserati GranTurismo about 3600 Vs 3800 # Toyota = $35K and Maserati = $145K. Both have standard DOT required equipment, doors, windows, engine, transmission, rims, wheels, brakes...and so on. So now the variance is in quality, amenities, and other outside costs. Absolutely the same for a house. I've seen $90.sqft for a house and I've built some over $700/sqft. Not one was comparable to the other so its not even a comparison.
Additionally I see the per ft thing looked at the most in the 1800 to 2500 sqft homes. Most people don't recognize the value in "space". Take a kitchen with a hypothetical same size/cost (avg 19-20 lineal feet of cabs/countertop, tiled floor, dishwasher and say the value is $ 38000. Thats 21/ft Vs 15/ft. Kitchen cost the same, just divided out over more sqft. So if anyone is chasing down sqft pricing, the real question becomes what are you putting into or taking out of a house. Want to find the most fare deal on building, compare cost plus contract and very well written detailed specs.

So here is a funny one. We built a nice home (about 4800sqft plus finished lower level) that was just loaded. Everything was super high end, and not one detail over looked. However, they needed a very nice garage for his car collection. The garage, with built in car wash and much nicer than most car dealerships was over $350K by itself. So that was about $73/sqft when divided by the house sqft. Pretty easy to skew the numbers.

Another scam I see builders use to lowball sqft numbers. Set an allowance and have nothing to back it up. Take a house that will have $40K in cabinetry in it. Scum builder will include a $20,000 allowance for cabinets. You think your getting a deal until AFTER you signed a contract and go to the selection meeting. There you find that your cabinets are $41,000.- and you only have a 20K allowance - bust out the checkbook!!!

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Re: Building a new house [Re: WadeRyan] #8656281
09/04/26 11:32 AM
09/04/26 11:32 AM
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Hope you have an additional means of heat. I have in floor heat and like it except in the spring and fall with the big temp changes day and night. Takes too long to heat up or cool down during those times. Otherwise I like it.


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Re: Building a new house [Re: gcs] #8656393
09/04/26 06:22 PM
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Yes 3'0' (full size) doors through out including bathrooms. The $12 you save on narrow doors will not allow a wheelchair or walker should you have that visitor.

Looks like a great location.


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