PRADUs Come with Fewer Challenges
Challenges: Building an ADU
Challenges: Building a FUN PRADU Establish what level of funding you have available from loans and savings Ask FUN for the list of PRADU designs available
Establish what level of funding you have available from loans and savings Seek inspiration for a suitable design Find and hire an architect to create the design Attend several design meetings Find and hire an engineer to create drawings for approval Submit all the plans for approval and to obtain necessary permits Make any necessary amendments to plans (and pay for the amendments) Choose your final design Pay for all the above Submit site plans showing connection to services to get final permission to build Obtain a quote for construction and labor costs. This will involve numerous meetings to discuss materials to be used, such as external finish, internal wall finish, etc. This does not include bathroom and kitchen units, flooring, etc. Make numerous visits to multiple Home Depot-style stores to help choose final finishes and create a budget. Find a contractor After many, many months, decide if you can afford to proceed with construction.
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Submit site plans showing connection to services to get final permission to build Obtain quote from contractor and discuss if you can reduce the labor cost (if appropriate) by working with them. All FUN designs come with a BOM (bill of materials), which is basically a materials shopping list. Find a contractor Your BOM will also include kitchen and bathroom fixtures, flooring options, etc. Take this to Home Depot and ask them to price everything; it’s that simple After a couple of weeks, ask your contractor to commence work.
As you can see from the table above, opting to build a PRADU is so much less daunting, simpler, appreciably more cost-efficient, and much faster. There may be one question in the back of your mind, and that is whether the PRADU residential plans in the appendix are for traditional timber-frame ADUs or steel-frame ones. The simple answer is they are for timber-frame ADUs, but that is not a problem. Here at FUN, as we have mentioned, we have the software and AI technology to convert engineering drawings for a timber-frame unit into drawings for a steel-frame unit. These plans are used by the machinery for the production of the frame itself, and the plans are
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