Been lurking around for awhile.
Here are my questions....
I live in a state that has some regulations. (SC)
Most building officials that I have talked to seem to be pretty OK with things to a certain degree.
The one thing they seem to be less enthused about is any form of DIY despite the fact that being an "owner builder" is legal and I can do the work of trades myself - as long as it passes.
They probably get a lot of time wasters so I don't completely blame them.
However, getting any form of designer or architecht here is so incredibly expensive that I might as well buy a house.
It's anywhere from 10k to 50k to have them do it. Yes, for a ~2000 sq. ft. house.
We don't want anything outlandish. I just want to build it myself and that will probably factor into the design.
Certainly there has to be some software out there that does most, if not all of the work in this day and age?
I have tried the home designer pro / chief architecht stuff but it does not seem to output anything that could be used for permitting except like one page of one thing.
Any suggestions?
Here are my questions....
I live in a state that has some regulations. (SC)
Most building officials that I have talked to seem to be pretty OK with things to a certain degree.
The one thing they seem to be less enthused about is any form of DIY despite the fact that being an "owner builder" is legal and I can do the work of trades myself - as long as it passes.
They probably get a lot of time wasters so I don't completely blame them.
However, getting any form of designer or architecht here is so incredibly expensive that I might as well buy a house.
It's anywhere from 10k to 50k to have them do it. Yes, for a ~2000 sq. ft. house.
We don't want anything outlandish. I just want to build it myself and that will probably factor into the design.
Certainly there has to be some software out there that does most, if not all of the work in this day and age?
I have tried the home designer pro / chief architecht stuff but it does not seem to output anything that could be used for permitting except like one page of one thing.
Any suggestions?