Methods & Materials for Building Your New Home

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Methods Materials for Building Your New Home
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• If youre having your home built by a
  professional construction company or general
  contractor, youll need to sit down together and
  have a conversation about what your home will be
  built from, and how it will be constructed.
• Below is a brief overview of the most common
  methods and materials used in new-home
  construction
• Traditional stick framing
• This system gets its name from the fact that
  workers used to assemble the skeletal frame of
  the home, stick by stick, on-site, using lumber
  cut to various sizes.

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• Its also sometimes referred to as platform
  framing, due to the fact that builders used to
  construct the first-floor platform on the
  foundation, then frame the first-story walls, add
  the second-floor platform, build the second story
  walls and then lastly, add the roof framing.
• Having been used by the American home building
  industry for many years now, new-home
  construction has become standardized around the
  reliable, tried and tested stick-built framing
  method.

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• Light-gauge steel
• Similar to a stick-built home but with metal rods
  instead of wooden sticks, homes made from
  light-gauge steel when properly engineered
  wont burn, shrink, rot or provide fodder for
  termites, and can be much stronger than a wooden
  framed building. Also, because it doesnt shrink
  or warp, you dont have to worry about drywall
  cracks.
• However, steel homes cost more to build and there
  are precious few construction companies with
  builders who are skilled enough to work with it,
  let alone have the right tools for the job.

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• Modular homes
• Using conventional stick framing, a modular home
  still has to conform to the same building codes
  as a home built on-site, and holds its value just
  as well. Built in a factory setting and finished
  on the inside, the homes are then trucked to the
  site and put in place with a crane, before the
  local construction company or general contractor
  puts them together and adds finishing touches.

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• Structured insulated panels
• An SIP is basically a sandwich of rigid foam
  insulation between oriented strand board (OSB)
  that results in a structural panel. Coming with a
  pre-cut window and door openings, along with
  conduit for electrical wiring, these panels are
  used for walls and ceilings and can be combined
  to create nearly any home design. Assembled by
  specially trained crews on site, these panels are
  typically used to cover a traditional timber
  frame, or post-and-beam structure, however they
  can be self-supporting, too.

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• Concrete
• Arguably the worlds most commonly used building
  material, concrete is not often used to build
  single-family homes in the U.S. and in those
  homes that do use it, the walls are invariably
  constructed from masonry units (CMUs), or
  insulated concrete forms (ICFs). Then, wood is
  used to frame floors, ceilings, interior walls
  and roofs.
• Masonry
• Commonly use for walls and retaining walls,
  masonry is a type of raw material that is
  exceptionally tough and provides great
  compressive strength to make a building last for
  many, many years.

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• If youre thinking of building your own home,
  schedule a consultation with a general contractor
  who can help you begin to put your idea into a
  solid plan.
• RZ Construction Group Inc is a fully inclusive
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