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Originally Posted by tis
You forgot to add the cost of government regulations which I read in a trade magazine a few years ago was almost a third or almost $100,000 on a $300,000 house. Course it's hard to build a house for that anymore. This was according to the Builder's Assn.
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We don't really have a lot more government regulations than we did a decade ago. They slightly tightened the insulating requirement in our area... but a lot of builders were already beyond the specification, and the newest one just requires a change in the weather barrier that can actually be less expensive if the time to pull the correct material is chosen.
It had no effect on ICF or double-stud wall construction techniques.
The door codes are pretty much the same... except a fire door adds spring hinge requirement. The code for the windows didn't change... just the formula used to predict the performance level.
The manufactured homes made in other States almost meet that local code, and a small dollar upgrade of the weather barrier is all that is currently missing.
It is really just the variance in the labor.