On Saving Money by Undertaking a Self-Build
Self-build is a phrase that is getting ever-popular in the housing market. Wait up a minute, what exactly is “self-build”? It’s a property you build yourself. It doesn’t have to mean LITERALLY by yourself, but you put yourself in the position as foreman, architect, planner of your home and allow professional workers do the job you tell them to do. More and more individuals are doing just that – in fact, the army of “self-builders” in the UK outnumbers the amount of properties being developed by any professional developer. The aim of self-build is to produce a home to your exact specifications, not a boiler-plate design that commercial developers use.
I know what you’re thinking: “I can’t plan, and manage a house build”. The good news is that self-build doesn’t have to involve you with the physical aspects of the property development (as a matter of fact, only around 5% of self-builders in reality take a role in the actual building of the property). Even when it comes to design, quite often this is delegated to a professional designer.. Self-build, by and large, is about you saying (in plain English), what you want to the house designer – who then develops a design dependent on your requirements. This design then becomes the blueprint the builders work to. See? You don’t need to have any active involvement in self-build. Having said all that, the DIY fantatic can use self-build as a chance to save some money by helping out with the aspects of self-build they have experience in – it’s up to you how much engagement you want during the development.
Self-build sounds expensive, but actually it’s by and large cheaper than purchasing an already developed property of identical specifications (up to 30% cheaper). Not only that, self-built homes fetch a good price too – up to 25% higher than the actual build cost, so you can view self-build also as a means to invest your money, rather than just a place to live
You must make sure the team of workers you choose are 100% competent and that they build well together. For sure, you will require workers with experience of some rather potentially dangerous machinery used in building, such as concrete cutting chainsaws, block and slab splitters, a husqvarna K760, floor saws, and wood saws. Professionalism brings safety to the development too.
This article is just an introduction to self-build, and I trust it will inspire those of you who are put off by the thought of executing a project of this kind of scale. It needn’t be time-intensive, and you won’t need any specific skills, cautiously, and you will need to cautiously work out the budget of the project.