undefined | Better HN

0 pointsflavius296632y ago0 comments

In a stick built house you're paying a lot of labor. Material prices are not that much.

For example, the material list for a 3 bedroom house is 130k. https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/books-buildi...

Say the land is 130k in your region. You won't find 3b houses for less than 360k. If you're looking at not so cheap builders, it will be 500k.

I think there's a revolution coming in the way we build houses, it must be - because costs are through the roof. It could be either in the form of prefabricated walls, like we have now trusses, or lego bricks like the OP, or something.

0 comments

turtlebits2y ago

For stick frame houses, around 10-15% of the cost is framing. Finishes account for the bulk of the cost.

flavius29663OP2y ago

well yeah, because everything is so bespoke: plumbing, electrical, windows, doors, drywall, trimming. I hope to see some kind of evolution of housing where these things are not installed by skilled labor somehow.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse