This guide details all the different stages of the construction of a house, and wants to be as clear and practical as possible.
It concerns individuals who wish to build a house by managing their own project from A to Z. The guide does not concern individuals who use a builder of houses, or who build self-build.
Like our series on seismic construction , this guide will be written one article per week, the link will be updated in the summary below. You can click on ‘Notifications’ to be alerted during these updates.
How to build a house – Phase 1: Fit the project
- Evaluate your borrowing capacity
- Define your expectations: Draw approximately the plans of your house
- Roughly calculate the cost of building your house
- Search and purchase of land
How to build a house – Phase 2: Design
- Choose an architect or an architect
- Choose your building material: Comparative visual guide (blocks, wood, bricks, straw, earth)
- Realize the building permit file and submit it
- To call on a geotechnician to carry out the G12 soil study
- Appoint a Technical Studies Office to carry out the construction plans for your house
- Choose a building control office and have your plans validated
- Evaluate in detail the cost of building your house
- Write and validate your specifications
- Request quotes and choose your construction company
- Memo: checklist to avoid problems before starting the construction of your house
How to build a house – Phase 3: The Works
- The meeting of start of construction
- The role of the Client in the construction of a house
- The foundations of individual houses
- The low slab
- The walls
- Tiling, parquet and other floor coverings
- insulation
- Wood Framing: 9 Errors to Avoid
- The cover
- The exterior joinery
- The Exterior cladding timber façade hard
- Paint and other siding
- Talus, VRD, and retaining walls
- How to build an ecological house (see these 12 tips already )
- Payment of construction companies to the progress of construction
- Handing over the keys: The role of the reserves and the reception of the works
- The year called perfect completion
Before starting this series, a video that summarizes the ‘typical project’:
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