Home Room Addition & Home Expanding Planning
Adding a room to your house is a very exciting project However, before embarking building a family room addition the homeowner should first consider several important items. These items include: home market values in the neighborhood, financing, home building costs, family room design plans (size and scale of project), architecture, and timetable for completion, personal disruption/inconvenience threshold and the sweat equity commitment level.
Designing a Family Room Addition and Assessing Market Value Prior to actually breaking ground on a family room addition, it is best to first have a plan. You need to determine what you are looking for in additional living space. For example: How many square feet? What types of rooms? Once this is understood, it is then important to find out the market value of homes in the local area with similar size and features to the new and improved home. With this information the homeowner can then calculate the difference between their current home market value and the new and improved home market value. This difference should represent the maximum cost budget for the new addition if a positive investment is desired. For example, a homeowner would not want to spend $40,000 on a new family room addition that provides only $20,000 in increased market value to the improved home.
Schedule and Sweat Equity Commitment
The next two items that should be considered include the timetable for completing the project and the homeowner sweaty equity commitment level. Many homeowners assume they can do a lot more than they are either skilled to do or have the time to do. From personal experience, I would suggest contracting out the site/ground work, rough framing, roofing, siding, heating/cooling, and the drywall. All of these tasks require skill, time and brawn. If local laws permit, electric and plumbing may be tackled by the homeowner. However, both require skill and can be life threatening if not performed properly. Other tasks that a homeowner could tackle include installing interior doors, finish trim, painting, cabinet installation, tiling and hardwood flooring. Prior to a homeowner signing up to any specific task however, they should first honestly assess their skill and available time, and compare them to their project schedule. If they don’t match, hire the contractor.
Threshold of Inconvenience and Disruption
Finally, a homeowner should consider their threshold for inconvenience and disruption. A family room addition, particularly if it involves the kitchen, is very disruptive to today’s busy lifestyles. It is also a dusty, dirty and noisy endeavor. In addition, dealing with subcontractors can be challenging at best. For a typical family room addition anticipate several months of effort and inconvenience. If after assessing all these issues you are still willing to move forward with the project, contact your subcontractors, pull your permits and get ready for an exciting time. For most homeowners building a family room addition is a positive experience that provides both new living space and a great investment.
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Buying a manufactured home that is not in a community?
I have placed an offer on a manufactured home in good condition, built in the 70s. The home seems like a good investment because the area is very nice, it is NOT in a manufactured/mobile home community, and nothing about the home feels or looks like a stereotypical manufactured home (thin walls, etc.).
Does all this make a difference in the resale value, since the home is on a normal residential street?
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its all planned out in advance. although they try to make it seem that way, NOTHING is candid. they made over a home in my town, and the whole town knew they were coming months before they got there. its not a surprise visit at all.
1st-run new cable from fuse box under the floors and through holes into each room, sealing the holes with foam insulation2nd plumbing-you will need to also run new pipes (PVC) from each drain in new addition to old drain system (making sure that the pipes have a slight down angle to them (use plumbers glue on joints of pipes) 3rd leaking-go to the hardware store and get a pail of roof patch (it is like a tar substance that is thick and is a tar you apply with a putty knife) and apply liberally to the entire seam of the joint between the two trailers (you could even lay down a thick plastic layer before applying the roof patch) You will also need to run additional water supply lines to the areas needing water (use copper tubing), but this is fairly easy to do and does not need to be perfectly level to work proper. Hope this gives you a starting point, and good luck on the renovations!!
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The worst case scenario is if an accident occurred because of shabby construction, your insurance carrier would probably not cover any medical costs or repair costs. You could be sued by anyone injured in that addition. Same for faulty wiring that could cause a fire and spread to the rest of your home, or to a neighbor's.
When you go to sell your home, the new buyer will insist on paperwork showing the work was approved by the proper authorities.
Best to do it right now, than be even more sorry for it later.
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It depends on the building and zoning regulations where you live. The standards for lumber sizes and distances between joists, minimum ceiling height, whether its a flat roof or must have a certain pitch, for example, are not the same everywhere. Your town hall should have some info on this — and also on whether you need to submit plans and get approval first. You probably do.
You have to check out all this before you buy your lumber, otherwise you might have to pull it all down and start again.
(I only know about it because an American friend had this problem a few years back.)
Hope this helps,
Lenky
Going up would generally cost less, due to the fact that no additional foundation would be required. This is much more of a disruption to your day to day life, though, since your roof would need to be torn off, which means the ceiling would be gone if your roof has trusses. An addition on the back would be its own structure until you opened it up to the existing house. Both ways have their pros and cons. Good luck.
Get an estimate for the addition then talk to an RE agent to see how much more you would get for the house. If you have to spend more than the return will be, it's not worth doing. And don't forget the agent's commission in your calculation.
It all depends on what you mean by a mobile home. If you are looking at adding just one room, pre-manufactured storage shed could be made to blend in nicely.
Another factor to consider is the neighborhood you live in, and whether there are any building codes to deal with.
I live 20 miles outside of town on a former farm, so I can pretty much do what I want. Of course, I am a long time DIY, so I know how to do just about anything.
if you are not like me, and don't live in a similar situation, I would not recommend it. However, I do admire you for your ability to choose other options that are out of the norm.
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Do the job properly,the staggering of seams is done for a reason, beyond looks.
This is done to keep water out of your house.
Well then, your clearly a dunce….
A fixed Electric baseboard with incorparated thermostat will be the cheapest solution. In that case you only have 1 wire to bring from breaker box.
if you do it youself that go under 200$ if you need 2500 watts or less. Dont forget to check you local electrical code before doing this yourself.
check the link to know how many watts you need.
PS.: dont forget that a non fixed heater like electric fireplace you buy at waltmart (or anywhere) cannot be considered as permanent heating source.
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