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“Residential Design Standards” – Breakthrough In Consumer Protection.
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“Residential Design Standards” – Breakthrough In Consumer Protection.
Cumming, GA. September 30, 2002 – Before The Architect, noted leader in home designing and home building consulting, design, and home drawing, has just begun to privately publish a living document, “Residential Design Standards”, now a 22-page monograph of first-time ever in one place how-to help in getting the new, remodel, and home improvement home building quality that home owners and buyers deserve.
”Residential Design Standards” is by two home designers and home builders each with 30+ years experience in both fields. It’s this special on-the-building site combo of home building planning and practice by its authors that qualifies this document as one-of-a-kind and well worth it. The text delivers the straight story on ways and means to have your new home or next addition built better, smarter than you may ever have expected, with point-by-point no-nonsense suggestions.
This unique home building guide, written in builders’ language with nearly 200 entries and the toughest nailing schedule you may ever see, covers major home design and home building subjects: Materials; Foundation; Framing; Finishing; Electrical; Water Plumbing; Layout; Fastening; and Passive Venting. Consumers can select from these lists those points that are most important and relevant to their own home building project. Entries can be easily included in blueprints. Before The Architect frequently refines and expands this compendium in the course of daily work.
In developing “Residential Design Standards,” Before The Architect principals recognized two potentially conflicting forces in home building. One force: more and more homeowners and home buyers seem to know less and less about the basics of good home building and lack the time to learn. The other force: pressures on home designers, home builders, home suppliers, etc. to keep costs down and profits up, possibly resulting in cut corners and marginalized materials and methods that may not serve consumers best interests. Consumers can lose out without knowing, and expose themselves to unnecessary risks, discomforts, and expenses later on. That’s where “Residential Design Standards” comes in.
“While everyday folks in the housing market may rightly expect others to be looking out for them – real estate agents, home inspectors, building authorities, and so forth – nothing replaces the knowledgeable, impassioned, and untiring vigilance of homeowners and buyers,” Before The Architect recently wrote. “We meant it [“Residential Design Standards”] to do just that – a quick and easy way to begin paying attention to some home design and home building matters that can be really important long term. Not every word in it can possibly apply to every building circumstance, but there’s something useful in “Residential Design Standards” for anyone who’s thinking seriously about residential building, remodeling, and home improvements. We use these standards all the time.”
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“Residential Design Standards” – Breakthrough In Consumer Protection
A copy goes for $19.95 (w/ S&H). You can check out the monograph in example form (in the Design Consulting section of their site) along with the rest of the informative and entertaining website of Before The Architect at http://www.beforethearchitect.com.
For additional information or sample pages:
Contact Persons: Ralph Pressel
Company Name: Before The Architect
Telephone Number: 770-889-6964.
Fax Number: To clients only.
Email Address: jrp2h2000@yahoo.com
Web Site Address: http://www.beforethearchitect.com
Summary: “Residential Design Standards” is 22 pages (and growing) of how-to guidance for consumers to help them in getting the new house, home remodel, and major home improvement they deserve. Written in no-nonsense builders’ language, it’s a must-have guide when you start to plan your next home building project.
Background: Before The Architect provides home designing and home building consulting, design, and Autocad 2000 home drawing for residential, light commercial and industrial building projects. Its principals, Ralph and Jean Pressel, have worked hands-on in designing and building going on four decades both on their own and for others.
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