Self-build & Save Money
The Home Builder Toolkit offers comprehensive and easy-to-use residential construction templates that have been created to offer a simple way for busy home builders to quickly prepare and maintain construction budgets and to track the construction project from start to end.
Budget Template
The easy to use and highly adaptable budget template will provide you with a structured format to estimate the cost of your build and track your spendings. Quickly see if your project is within your budget and on track.
Estimation dashboards
The estimation dashboard will provide you with a different perspective of your project estimation to see where your project stands compared to industry standards and also against different component of your project. Quickly see if adjustments are needed.
Project Tracking
The project plan tool will allow you to create the timeline, tasks, milestones, and resources needed for your project ensuring you stay on schedule.
Quick start guides
A number of quick start guides provided to kick start your understanding on aspects required to build your home. Reading these guides will give you the basic info needed while saving you many hours reading and studying different sources.
Essential Links
Avoid wasting time. We’ve spent many hours gathering the best sources of information for you. From website, blog posts, YouTube videos, podcasts and many social influencers, you will get the best sources of information that are out there.
Tips & Tricks
This essential guide will provide you tips and tricks for building a house with providing you practical advice to save time, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and avoid common mistakes during construction and optimizing your investment This is an essential guide that will save you money.
How it works
Following these simple steps will help you to save time, money and get into the groove of things pretty quick. Follow the steps below to better use the tool to your advantage
Determine your budget and buy your land
Research location, assess land condition and obtain land title and ownership.
Design your house
Home construction research
Obtain budgetary estimations from your skilled professionals and from preferred vendors for material. Fill in estimations using the Home Builder Toolkit - Estimations and Actuals.
Develop construction cost estimation
Review your budget, review loan requirements and options, conclude financing.
Obtain finance from your bank
Hire Subcontractors
and obtain permits
Using the Home Builder Toolkit project plan, built your house construction project based on the information you have received. Enter specific dates, duration for each activities, any dependencies. Execute your project when ready.
Execute the project
Purchase the Home Builder Toolkit
Read the quick start guides and familiarize yourself with the tools provided in the Home Builder toolkit.
Define goals and needs, find inspirations, develop floor plans, select material and finishings and hire a professional to formalize your house plan
Perform the necessary research to understand what will be needed for your built. Browse internet, talk to friends and professionals.
Issue contracts and obtain necessary permits and approvals.
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