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Originally Posted by Walkabout
When building a new home, at what points does it make sense to visit to monitor construction progress? Our guess is we'd want to come down after the concrete slab is poured but have no idea how many weeks would normally go by after contract signing before this happens.
Between the pouring of concrete and final walk-through, we assume there would be other important checkpoints but have little idea of what these would be or when they would most likely happen.
We've been advised by several of our new neighbors of the importance of closely monitoring construction progress. This makes sense. The further along construction progresses, the more expensive catching and/or correcting problems could be.
Our best guess is everyone else having had a house built has thought about this. To those of you willing to share your experience, we have two questions. First, what are the checkpoints/milestones worth a visit? (When walls go up? When the house is under roof? When wiring is pulled for plugs? When interior walls are painted? Some other time?) Second, for the above checkpoints, when should we expect these to occur?
Thanks!
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Your building is carefully planned and orchestrated. They will give you the date of closing soon after you sign and it is possible it will be done ahead of that date by a week to ten days but they will keep the day and time of closing none the less.. Every day materials are delivered that will be ready for the specific team (There are different sub contractors) that will need them the next day. The builder will check in that morning and at least once during the day and in the evening to check what was worked on and clean up. Ours often left notes or rarely asked for something to be redone. He directed that the backsplash tile to be redone in the kitchen. We have owned ten new homes, several we had built, the process here was the most carefully orchestrated. We have had custom homes built and bigger homes but none as carefully built as our homes here.
I don't sell real estate. Don't know the developers but as you can see I am a huge fan. We were renting here while the last home was built (We had sold our first home here immediately and needed to rent while the second was being built) and we enjoyed coming over at least once a day to see what was happening, but we didn't need to worry that it had to be overseen my us.