Kit Homes, Working With Building Departments & Their Quirks

Show Notes: Kit Homes, working with building departments and their quirks! Unique sites and neighborhoods and designing your home fit within them.  Discussion of zoning issues as well as more details on energy codes and mechanical systems. Transcript: Steve Tuma: It’s also good to have the plans clear so that your contractor knows what’s to be built because amazingly, yes, we have seen this, people don’t always believe that a building department will approve a set of plans that can’t be built. Interviewer: Hey, everyone. Thank you for joining us for Episode 41 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as always is the President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes where they want exactly as they want nationwide and worldwide since 1993, that man is Steve Tuma. Steve, how’s it going buddy? Steve Tuma: Excellent. It’s another great day helping people design homes and build homes. It’s always fun. Interviewer: [Laughs] And it’s always busy. You guys are really busy over there at Landmark. Steve Tuma: Yeah, but it’s a good time. It’s kind of neat running into and helping customers figure out different things that they want to build, where they want to build, how they want to build it, how it works in the budget, how it fits on land. Interviewer: Right. Steve Tuma: Then there’s always building departments in there working around their parameters as well. Interviewer: Always something. So I thought today we jump into some questions that have come our way regarding issues that often arise during the designing and building phases of a panelized home building project. Are you good with that? Steve Tuma: Yeah, I probably have a few ideas. Interviewer: [Laughs] Awesome. So start with, give us some background. What are some of the issues that you and your customers have had dealing with building departments? I don’t necessarily mean like major sort of – the