From permits to final walkthrough, here is a realistic month-by-month schedule for a custom home in central Illinois \u2014 and an honest list of the things that slow it down.<\/p>\n
Months 1\u20132: design and permits.<\/strong> Drawings, structural calculations and the permit application with Sangamon County. Budget six to eight weeks; longer if the plot needs a variance.<\/p>\n Month 3: site preparation.<\/strong> Clearing, excavation, drainage and utility trenching. Wet ground is the usual delay here.<\/p>\n Months 4\u20135: foundations and frame.<\/strong> Footings, slab and the timber or steel frame. Once the frame is up the house stops being an abstraction.<\/p>\n Months 6\u20137: envelope and first fix.<\/strong> Roof, windows, insulation, then the mechanical, electrical and plumbing first fix.<\/p>\n Months 8\u20139: second fix and finishes.<\/strong> Plaster, joinery, tiling, paint and the kitchen. This is the stage clients underestimate.<\/p>\n The honest average is seven to nine months of construction, plus the design and permit stage. Anyone quoting four months for a custom build is either subcontracting the whole thing or telling you what you want to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From permits to final walkthrough, here is a realistic month-by-month schedule for a custom home in central Illinois \u2014 and an honest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-homes","tag-new-homes","tag-permits","tag-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-construction-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}