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Building a New House

Are You Really Ready To Build Your Dream Home? "Building a custom home is quite possibly the single largest investment of time, money, and energy that you will ever spend — unless you are crazy enough to build another one." Most people reading the above quote would accept it at face value and then immediately conjure up images of the poor dejected homeowner and all of the problems that they will have to overcome during the design and construction of their dream home. However, try reading it again. This time, imagine … more

A Description of the Homebuilding Process

Homeowner or home builder, if you are building a new custom home, the more you know about the homebuilding process, the more enjoyable your experience is likely to be. We regularly add new information about the various phases of construction described in the following pages of this article. Like the rest of the B4UBUILD.COM Web site, this section is a continuous work in … more

Residential Construction Contract

Does Your Custom Home Building Agreement Protect You or Just Your Builder? A contract is nothing more than an agreement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law. Regardless of your age or your level of income, most adults have entered into hundreds and perhaps thousands of contracts in their lifetime. When you apply for your first library … more

Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked Home Building Questions Since the inception of B4UBUILD.COM in 1997, we have been providing visitors with answers to questions about the homebuilding process, custom home design, home improvement and other aspects of residential construction. As time permits, some of the most frequently asked questions and answers will be included in this section of our site. Please keep in mind that every construction project has unique … more

Construction Books

Every few weeks I head to the local library, return my overdue books, pay the fines, and check out another armful of literary treasures. While there is something new to learn from virtually every book one reads, some books are worth buying and some are better appreciated when they are just borrowed and returned to the library. The books and book reviews assembled in this section of the B4UBUILD.COM Web site are meant to help our visitors decide … more

Home Building Pet Peeves

Don't You Just Hate When That Happens! Many things can, and do, go wrong during the design and construction of a new home. Normally, these occurrences are a result of less than perfect communications between the people requesting the work, the people directing the work, and the people performing the work. Everyone involved with a construction project has their own ideas about how the job should be scheduled, how the work … more

Residential Construction Resources

The B4UBUILD.COM team regularly reviews and catalogs other Web sites looking for those that provide quality information, of specific interest, for people planning, building, buying, repairing or remodeling a home. By providing links to some of the most informative residential design and construction related Web sites in the world, we hope to be able to save our visitors time and trouble locating reliable information for their homebuilding, … more

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Please Help Us Continue To Help You... Since 1997, B4UBUILD.COM has offered unbiased comments, honest reviews, helpful resources, and trustworthy recommendations to visitors from around the world. Because those services are provided at no cost to … more

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