We submitted our construction financing application to Fortis Private Bank and received our pre-approval letter. Now we need to gather all of our documentation and make sure we stay on track to finalize our building contract with Best Custom Homes. We still have to complete our construction drawings with the structural engineer before we can…
Stucco, stone, and timbers, Oh my!
We hadn’t had Deb do any work on our floor plans since around the time we received our preliminary bid from Dan and Derek, but now that we decided to keep moving forward it was time to have her make another round of changes before we sent the plans off for structural engineering. Most of…
Our grading permit is approved!
We have our first official approved permit from the county that allows us to get started on the land prep. The permitting process itself was fairly painless. Glenn just had to do one round of revisions after the first submittal. The part that was painful was writing all of the checks to get the actual…
Could another builder do it cheaper?
A few weeks ago we saw a new construction home listing show up on REColorado that was being represented by Claire. I gave her a call to ask about it because the full selling price seemed really low compared to what just our construction costs were going to be. Claire mentioned that another builder was…
Traipsing all over Denver to pick out materials
One way we thought we might be able to reign in some of the construction costs was by selecting our materials and coming in under the allowances in the budget. We spent three days traipsing all over Denver to meet with one vendor after another to select plumbing fixtures, appliances, doors, stone, and so much…
Grading plan submitted for permit
Glenn wants to submit our grading plan to the county for review. He said the fire department will need to review the plans and sign off on them too. Generally, this process takes a few weeks and we should move forward even after the bad project pricing news we received because he expects that the…
It’s going to cost what?
We met with Derek and Dan to go over their preliminary estimate for our project. They didn’t waste any time delivering the tough news that what we wanted and had designed was going to cost more than we originally planned to spend – A LOT MORE! We went through the budget items line by line…
We’re finally ready to get pricing!
We think our floorplan designs are at a point now where we are ready to send them over to Best Custom Homes to get a preliminary pricing quote. Deb recommended that we add as much detail to the plans as possible to make our quote more accurate. So we went through and specified plan notes…
Garage switcheroo
Deb told us moving the garage to the other end of the house wouldn’t be as disruptive as we originally thought it would be. She actually liked it better and thought it solved some other issues we were struggling with – specifically those related to the breezeway that we no longer needed. We also got…