Should I hire A New Builder Or An Experienced One?

Should I hire A New Builder Or An Experienced One?

Perhaps, the best way to address this question is to explain why you need a Builder in the first place. I remember years ago when my daughter Melanie, introduced me to one of her friends. She asked me what I did for a living. I replied, I'm a Custom Home Builder. She replied, so you hammer the nails? I responded, no I don't hammer nails or install the roofing, drywall etc. Well, then what do you do?

Though a Builder hires all these specialists to actually construct a home, the Builder is the only one that sees the big picture. A Builder through his years of experience sees and understands what's really happening on your home site. Sure these specialists know their jobs but sometimes they overlooks things.

I've explained to people, I not only see a construction site, I actually feel a home with all my senses. Does a room size feel right? Does the space between the vanity and the bath tub feel right? Many times, I walk a job site when none of the workers are present. It allows me to actually hear potential floor, truss or joist squeaks. 

Just walking across the floors, allows me to feel high spots in the poured concrete or subfloor that will create issues with flooring installations. I even know what a home under construction should smell like.

Walking the roof sheathing, I can feel soft spots in a valley or spot a crowned truss at a distance. Feeling a home is vital. It gives me the ability to head off potential issue early before a problem becomes a really huge one. 

An experienced Builder can eyeball the top of the stem wall and tell that the slab elevation has been set too low before the slab gets poured.

An inexperienced Builder doesn't know what he doesn't know!

Sure the new Builders price my be lower than the Builder with 30 years of experience but who's going to end up paying the price for that lack of experience?

Do you really want to have your Builder walk off the job because he's finally realized he's not going to make enough from your home to make it worth while or he can't pay his trades with the funds vailable?

Frankly, I'm tired of hearing bad contractor stories. The one about the woman that recently hired a Builder to remodel her home and lost $150,000 because the Builder left town. She thought she was getting an unbelievable deal! It sure was an unbelievable deal. Go to Home Depot and get a deal but not when you are paying $100,000's for your home. There's just too much at stake!

Looking for a great deal on a Custom Built Home in Orlando, then hire the most experienced Builder you can find. If you don't know how to build a home and neither do the individual trades, then you need somebody that does. 

Hire the experienced Builder because you have no idea what you don't know and neither does the new Builder.