Phase One: Feasibility & Budgeting
Utilize our Plan Your Build tool. Choose a Design Path (Ranch, Cape, Colonial, ADU), then select the home model that best suits your vision. From here, you’ll answer a handful of simple, multiple-choice questions that will inform an automatically generated, no-charge Preliminary Estimate.
Upon reviewing your Preliminary Estimate, you’ll be given the option to connect with a Sales Representative. If you’d like to do so, one of our team members will reach out in order to talk through your project and speak to any outstanding questions.
Next, we’ll sharpen your Preliminary Estimate to reflect the unique characteristics of your building lot. An On-Site Consultation, which is a $250 service, will enable us to do so. We’ll visit you at your property, conduct a site evaluation, and continue discussing your new home build. Note: If you have not yet had a Site Plan for your lot prepared, we can connect you with a local civil engineering firm. Come Phase Three, Permitting & Ordering, a Site Plan will be required.
At this point, you’ll be in it for just $250 and will have a reliable, comprehensive Estimate in-hand. With this, you’ll be in position to pursue financing (if needed). Use our Get Pre-Approved link for an easy, secure path to competitive lending options.
Phase Two: Design & Planning
A $5,000 nonrefundable Plan Deposit is required in order to graduate into Phase Two, Design & Planning. Once the Plan Deposit hurdle has been cleared, the door will open to customization and personalization of your home plan.
We’ll work closely together to modify and redraw the plan per your preferences. We’ll then issue a revised Estimate for your now-custom home build (if the plan is indeed modified in a significant enough manner to impact project budget).
You’ll visit us at our Model Home Center in Colchester, CT in order to review the interior and exterior components that come as standard with the home. You’ll compare standard items versus available upgrades, picking and choosing which may best suit your home.
Once you’ve deemed your floorplan to be final, our factory will process your plans, push through state approvals, and generate the full set of architectural plans that will be used to obtain a building permit in Phase Three.
At this point, your plans will have received all of the required state approvals, your interior and exterior preferences will have been decided-upon, and the total project budget will be set in stone. The next step from here— Purchase Agreement.
Phase Three: Permitting & Ordering
Upon signing a Purchase Agreement, you will close on your loan (if applicable). At this point, a 20% Order Deposit will be due.
Upon receipt of your Order Deposit, we’ll submit your Site Plan and architectural plans to the town and pay the associated fees in order to obtain a building permit.
With the building permit approved, we will submit your home order to our factory.
Phase Four: Site Work & Home Installation
With the home now on order, things start to come together very quickly. Modules are typically delivered to your building lot in just ~12 weeks. We’ll schedule your Superior Walls precast foundation system install, then swiftly mobilize our equipment and break ground.
Set Day, the day your home is set atop the foundation by a crane, is a day you’ll always remember. In the morning, you’ll see your foundation, a few enormous boxes on carriers, a large crane, a dumpster, and a crew of guys ready to work. By the end of the day (in most cases), you’ll be looking at a weathertight, brand-new house!
Phase Five: Finish Work & Final Approvals
When Set Day is over, your project is on the home stretch — but not completely done. Final on-site details include tying in plumbing and electrical, as well as HVAC work, carpentry, and a number of miscellaneous finishing tasks. In addition, we’ll build any garages, porches, decks, patios, etc. on-site following Set Day. Once these items are buttoned-up and your local Building Inspector has signed off on your Certificate of Occupancy, the home will be all yours—congratulations!
