Wow, alot of Ryan hate… I built with them, was an ass when it was built = yes. But I made sure shit was right. I came and measured the house everynight. When the dry wall was up I came with a framing square. I would spend about an hour to hour and half checking shit.
Why did I build with them? Cause location, lot size, taxes, schools, resale, I didn’t have to carry a construction loan, I didn’t have to front money to a builder. Is there stuff I would have changed? Yes! Hell the 1st summer I lived here I cut a hole in the side of the house to put a window in cause I for got it.
Rule of thumb, price per square foot, older homes, best price per square foot. edit to clearify, it isn’t has easy has taking the price/ sqft. Thier are plenty of online tools to help give you this “number”
Now, I have built many differnt homes, from do it all urself to gc’ing the work. Just know ur products, research, measure twice cut once
Ps I find it very very funny, how a lot of people (not all) who have never used a hammer or built a wall could tell a what builder is good or bad. I have see a number of these “custom” home builders go belly up in the middle of a build!!
Pps build and drive what ever the fuck you want. Just do your home work.
Clarified, sure their are alot over things that come into play. 2x4 vs 2x6, blown in vs spray in, engineered lumber, precast basements, windows with little fancy pull outs, windows with blinds in them… Blah blah,!
I’ve had customers obsess over SF pricing and when I asked them if the scope of work offered by a competitor was the same it turned out to be fruit and vegetables. SF costs are like a 500HP motor in a Chevette or a 500HP motor in a Metro bus.
i dont like ryan homes because when i worked at a rental company, i had customer after customer coming in to rent tools to fix their ryan homes. they were having to redo roofs including replacing the wood, ripping out exterior walls and replacing everything except the studs due to water damage, etc. alot of them had houses that werent even 30 years old.
I’ve been in a number of homes built by various “big name” as well as “lesser known” builders. I think attention to ALL details greatly affects the final product. Time is money and if trades are pushed to meet low budget numbers, they’re going to cut what thet need to so they can hit their numbers. Also, if project management is lax, things are missed and quality suffers. I don’t get paid for callbacks and repairs so I want it done right the first time.
i understand where u are coming from i really do, i personally like a few of their floor plans, they do have some great locations but IMO you shouldn’t have to go the site every night and measure and check for square…does your house have one big cold air return in the hallway? just curious
I bought mine in the country for 42k.
39.5k loan. I think my payment is $302 with taxes included.
gutted, tore the floor out, floor joists, fixed up the foundation, moved some walls around, replaced all windows w/ And 400 series… Did it my way. Now it’s what I want, Total cost was about 15-20k. (wood stove alone was 4k + 1.5k chimney)
I still have to do siding yet… But that is next year I think.
No way I could’ve bought a house like this for 60k.
Also, if you have someone build your house… Be sure it’s built by Ryan Homes! :tup: (lol)
My fiances uncle works for Barden.
He does good work, I don’t know about the company as a whole.
Their houses look good from curb side, however that doesn’t say very much at all.
One important thing to think of if you do a new build is cable outlets, phone jacks, and electrical outlets. I had an electrical outlet placed on the top of the mantel which comes in real handy when decorating for Christmas. How many and where to place them. We also put ceiling fans in all rooms except kitchen eating area and of course bathrooms.
The only reason I didn’t is that both computers that my fiancee and I use are in the same room as the router. My laptops and PS3 can work fine on the wireless, as I almost never use them. However if I was building from scratch I would definitely run Ethernet no matter what. That’s my personal preference.
Another suggestion for new build - structured wiring instead of point-2-point. Everything comes back to the basement into a utility room (All the low voltage systems I mean, unless you’re super-baller and are going for a full-house automation system).
Pre-wire for speaker audio, either to panels or built-in speakers; Line-Level Audio/Digital TV; Cat 5e/6; Co-Axial; etc. This way there’s one room with all the connections, patch-panels, etc. It’s more $$ at the get go, but makes everything cleaner and a lot nicer.
My buddy went through his house during the framing stage and put speaker wires throughout the entire house. He’s got an in wall connection (the size of a standard light switch) that opens up and you plug an ipod into. Its pretty nice.
lol at all of you getting giant hardons about wiring that is 99% unnecessary. Everything data is going wireless. Already I only know one person my age with a home phone. 10 years from now your house full of coax and cat5 will be like today having a ham radio antenna on your roof and a 6’ sattelite dish in your backyard. Even speaker wire I wouldn’t bother with unless you know exactly where you want the speakers. It’s not that hard to fish wire through walls from the basement.
If you really want to future proof just run a 2" conduit from the basement to the attic. That way you can come down from the attic to anything on the second floor and up from the basement to anything on the first floor.
Besides, just how fucking plugged in do you really to be? Don’t turn your house into an office building.
