Guys

 

Has anyone built, or ever looked into building their own house. The way I figure, I'm 28 and have moved house more times than I've had hot dinners...! doh!

 

So, when I finally buy, I might as well buy a plot of land, build a nice 4 bed house with a double garage that I can stay in for the rest of me life!!

 

Sounds ideal I know and I am sure it aint quite as easy as it sounds but I have the idea, I need to know all the sh1t that comes with it.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Guys

 

Has anyone built, or ever looked into building their own house. The way I figure, I'm 28 and have moved house more times than I've had hot dinners...! doh!

 

So, when I finally buy, I might as well buy a plot of land, build a nice 4 bed house with a double garage that I can stay in for the rest of me life!!

 

Sounds ideal I know and I am sure it aint quite as easy as it sounds but I have the idea, I need to know all the sh1t that comes with it.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

I looked into it a little before i bought my house, IIRC the sort of plot i was looking at for a reasonable 4 bed or bigger 3 bed house was bout £18k, I got a rough price from a bricky mate on doing the walls and main parts of the roof and i think it was somewhere around £40-£50K, everything else I would have been doing myself so that would have cut costs down, especialy on the electrical, being and electrician. I didnt go into much further for the simple fact that I wouldnt have had the time to do it.

 

I think it would be cheaper building your own house, if you did a lot of the stuff yourself, but there is the time factor, will you have enough spare time? where are you going to be living whilst you do it? The major plus side is that you can have a house how you want it, to a certain degree, they may be certain design specs depending on where a plot of land is that you want to buy.

 

Hope any of that helps.

 

Lee

I am really looking into this. My dad has been a carpenter for 40 years and can do electrical and plumbing. Myself i am a trained electrical engineer and have worked on sites with my dad wood bashing. I intend to build a dorma house. Build the foundations a shell for the dorma and conect utillities such as water, electricity and gas. i will move into the house once the shell is up then build it from the inside out.

just a thought but if theres enough of us on here.. ie im a window installer and can get windows and doors cheap but top quality , , theres sparkys on here, ,theres a chippy on here,, all you need is a plumber and a bricklayer and your halfway there, it makes perfect sense to me to build your own house, as long as you have the time and money go for it, it will pay off in the long run , i no discovery channel had a series on it about a bloke who built his own house , followed from start to finish , could be worth getting it on dvd ,just to help clarify the pitfalls,ps my nexy door nieghbour is a top bricky , good luck mark ! and happy new year

if i had the funds to get started i would definatly build my own place. like paul stevens ive done (and sometimes still do) windows/doors/conservatories installing, my dads a time served joiner of 30 yrs and i got alot of friends who are in the building trade.

 

i did look into it, but my bank would only provide 2/3rds of the money needed.........unless i robbed a bank i would struggle to get the other 1/3rd myself.

 

a friend of mine has just done this, and i know he is very happy with his results. it took him 14mnths to build his 5 bedroom detached house in the country (trying to make it sound "posh" ;) ), he lived in a rented 4 bedroomed house with his wife and 5 kids for the 14mnths, and the grand total to build his house and rent for the other place was IIRC £150k (ish). the house he has built is worth about £275k (ish).

 

thing to do is sit down and look at it realistically.if you can afford to do it,and you also have the know how and time, then i would go for it.

Just remember building regs are getting tougher... i,m not trying to put a downer on it but the guidlines now will without doubt hold you up and time is money, you will go anywhere between 17-25% over your budget so try to have a bit of dosh for back up.

Having said that i always wish i could self build but i am too much of a perfectionist and would end up building forever !!!!

I looked into this a little as well, the thing that put me off was the time involved and trying to find a plot, I was considering the kit option and some of the kit manufacturers have good web sites on the subject.

 

http://www.scotframe.co.uk/

 

Just run a search on google etc