hey guys it's christian today we're
going to be going over the cost
breakdown on my 60x40 shop house i know
a lot of you guys have been waiting for
this video so let's jump right into it
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so starting this video off i want to
tell you guys a little bit about me
my name is christian i'm in idaho
i'm 23 years old and i'm a third year
electrician apprentice
so i've been in the trades a little bit
i've been on job sites for a few years
now so
i know a lot of people in the trades
i've got a lot of friends and family to
do it so that was a huge help on this
entire process
my boss was a huge help he let me borrow
his
scissor lift his ladders and all sorts
of stuff so a huge shout out to all the
friends and family
that helped make all this possible now
to start this video off i want to talk
about the
the loan process so getting the
construction loan and the mortgage so
we'll start right there then jumping
into the loan process
so for the construction loan um i went
to a mortgage broker
with a deed of two acres of land that
was in my name uh
cost breakdown of basically everything i
was going to spend on everything here
and also the floor plans for this place
so the floor plans i designed them
myself on my ipad using an
app i actually have those i'll send them
to anyone that
wants to see them so if you send me an
email at wecreate208
gmail.com i'll afford you the pdfs so i
took that to them and they this mortgage
company basically borrows
money out of a 401k from a local place
so they they'll cut me checks however
often i want them so basically
um i had a credit card i would spend my
credit card at places like say home
depot
spend money there and then at the end of
the month or end of the week whenever i
want to do it
i would send an email with all the
receipts of everything that i spent
or invoices for people they would either
give me a reimbursement for the money i
spent on my card
or if i needed to spend ten thousand
dollars for
something i could get a check from them
and then i'd be able to pay
whatever subcontractor came out so
i did a normal construction loan and
then that turned into a 30-year
fixed loan i lock that in at a 2.75
interest rate which is really good
and if you have any questions about the
loan stuff feel free to email me and i'd
be happy to answer any questions
everywhere is going to be a little bit
different though everyone's circumstance
is going to be different so
let's jump into what the cost of some of
this stuff is now
so the first step up here was to get the
lot flattened out
and get the driveway built so for
excavating the
side hill and making this place flat i
spent about
five six thousand dollars and that
includes getting the
footings dug and ready for concrete the
driveway
the original driveway was about two
thousand five hundred dollars to
get built and then i spent another 6 000
or so
on pit run and then that was all spread
out throughout the driveway
but for those of you been watching the
videos for a while i'll throw a clip in
right here one of the subcontractors
actually
rolled their enclosed trailer off the
side of the driveway after a snowstorm
so after that we realized that the
driveway is probably a little bit too
steep
so we decided to put a new one in and
try to reuse most of the gravel that we
could
that was another three or four thousand
dollars to move the driveway
pick up all the pit run put it on the
new driveway flatten it out and it's
kind of bumpy still it still needs some
work so
i'll have to put some more money into
that but it is what it is that was
probably the biggest mistake
this whole entire process was not
listening to the contractors when they
said
that it was going to be a little bit too
steep coming up that hill i wanted it to
be shorter and that's what i got
so right now we're going to talk about
getting power up here
getting water up here and doing the
septic system so i was about 800 feet
for me
to the nearest power pole so it was
really expensive to get power up here
to do i wanted to do underground so
there wasn't power poles going through
the field which believe it or not
power poles actually i would have saved
about two thousand dollars over
underground but doing the underground i
spent around two thousand dollars on the
three inch pvc conduit
and i i spent another ninety eight
hundred dollars for rocky mountain power
to come up here polar power set a
transformer up here and
pull power over to my meter for water i
was lucky enough to have an existing
well here
so i just had a it was about 600 feet of
inch and a quarter poly line that we ran
up here that wasn't a big deal super
lucky there uh drilling a well would
have been 20 to 25 000
so um septic tank it drops off the
front side right here off of the hill it
was about
7 800 to have them come up here
dig it all up set the tanks and run all
the leech field lines
and that's basically all the all that
stuff and now let's move on to some
concrete and stuff like that where i'm
located at the soil is a c1 type which
is basically
clay underneath this so a big cost that
i didn't really realize
that you guys might have to consider
also is we had to have
like a minimum of 12 inches of
three-quarter minus gravel
underneath the concrete so it's not like
you could just pour the concrete on top
of the clay
you'll have problems with concrete or
with clay getting water in it it swells
and so that's another couple thousand
dollars that i didn't consider on this
um so for pouring the footings
pouring the walls pouring both of the
slabs inside of the shop
and the deck i spent around 18 19
000 and that's including a couple
thousand dollars for gravel
renting the concrete forms for the walls
and stuff like that
now me and my friends did most of this i
did contract out the big
shop pad there was a lot of slopes and
everything going to the drains so i
wanted that to be
perfect we did every almost everything
else the walls the footings and
the the living pad everything turned out
good
so i was able to save a little bit of
money there but just remember if you're
going to be contracting out all the
concrete work
it's expensive okay so talking about
framing real quick
this is a traditional built house i know
a lot of friends that
build houses so i was able to save money
by hiring them and learning the trade
and
helping them through instead of hiring a
contractor for say a metal building or a
pole barn
so had a lot of friends up here helping
me with everything
including the trusses the tracks all the
rough cut timbers on the deck
all the wood sheathing everything i
spent about 49 thousand dollars
keep in mind this is during the covet
pandemic
i the prices of lumber as you guys know
have skyrocketed
it is way more expensive than it would
have been to build a year ago
um something you got to consider if
you're building a house right now or
thinking about building a house
if you can i would consider waiting
until prices go back down
lumber pvc romex everything is
super it's as high as it's ever been
right now um for
all the wood here 49 000 definitely
would have saved
10 15 maybe even 20 thousand dollars if
this would have been pre-covered
nothing you can do about it but um so 49
000
consider that if i when i was building
my house a rule of thumb that everyone
told me was
take what you think it's going to cost
and double it and
that's what it's going to end up costing
and that was true for i'd say probably
about 60
of the stuff i did up here and i
budgeted it usually doubled so
just keep that in mind when you're when
you're doing your prices
originally i thought this place was
going to cost 170 000 to build
blew right through that budget so all
right let's move on from framing and
let's talk about something else
so we're going to talk about all the
windows and all the doors
real quick so you can see here um
we did some more expensive doors these
actually have blinds inside of them
so you can close the windows and
everything um all the windows they're
pretty big you can see here we got these
same windows up on the next floor above
a little more expensive on the windows
but i wanted to be big i wanted the
doors to be nice
i spent about 8 800 dollars between the
man doors and the windows now the garage
doors there's some of the nicer garage
doors with the better insulation and
everything
also added windows and those they were
about
fifty six hundred dollars for them um
one is a 12x12 and the other is an 18x8
they also have they're smart capable so
you can control them from their phones
and everything
super good garage doors super good man
doors and windows
um let's move on to something else okay
so let's talk about the roof for a
minute
we did a metal roof here all the way
across here
the deck is covered also um
the gutters we'll start with them
they're they're not done yet but they
are scheduled to be done
the gutters are twelve hundred dollars
um to buy all the metal
uh charcoal gray from metal cells it was
about
six thousand dollars or so for all that
stuff and the screws and
all the trim pieces going around the
side and all that stuff
real quick i'll give you a number on the
soffit also
to purchase all the soffit stuff it was
like fourteen hundred dollars
and keep in mind this is with us doing
everything this is not contracting this
stuff out
luckily enough i had my boss's bucket
truck to bring up here so when we were
doing the sofa we were able to use that
if you hire someone else out to do that
it's probably going to cost double
let's move on from that and let's talk
about the next thing
okay so you guys can see from the siding
it's not like your normal shop house we
don't got
normal metal siding or anything like
that right here on the patio and on the
deck we have a tongue and groove siding
that we stain black
and then on the rest of the house we
have a board and batten siding
it's a true wood siding i bought it all
from home depot and then it's just got
batten strips
so they're four by eight sheets and then
you have batten strips that go
in between each sheet we did the whole
house
for that i was about four thousand
dollars on the siding stuff like that
i love the way it turned out it it makes
it look more like a house up here
instead of just like a commercial
building you know
so spend a little bit more time doing
that
um than you know just throwing up some
metal sheets but in the end i think it's
worth it it makes it feel more like a
home
they're still out of stock of some of
the batons and stuff so
i'm waiting to i've asked you guys what
color you guys think i should paint it
i'm still open to ideas of course
i'm still waiting for them to stock more
of these band strips so that i can
actually get everything caulked and get
everything painted
until then it's just it's this stuff's
already pre-primered so
it's going to stay like this and then
i'll i need to get it painted before
winter but
it'll stay it'll be good like this so
let's talk about um
next up we're going to talk about the
the insulation so
this place um on all the exterior walls
and the separation wall between the
living and between the shop
is open cell spray foam so i have a few
friends in the installation business
they quickly talked me out of using your
traditional bats on that stuff and told
me to do
they really wanted me to do closed cell
spray foam but that was
a little bit out of the budget for me so
i did the
open cell spray foam which is still a
lot better than your traditional bat
um i spent about let's see what we got
here so everything total for the
insulation
i spent about thirteen thousand five
hundred dollars that includes uh
upgraded cellulose insulation in the
ceiling for
sound up in the attic so all
up here right here on the ceiling from
the first to the second floor it's all
insulated so when you're walking around
up on the second floor you can't hear it
we got insulation in between the
bathrooms and the living spots for sound
so it's definitely an upgraded
insulation system from something
that you could get but insulation goes a
long way we have
really cold winter years and really hot
summers here so spend a little money
now on insulation on upgraded insulation
and hopefully long term
it'll pay off two things that i didn't
really
feel comfortable doing up here that i
didn't have a skill set for
was plumbing and the hvac
so to get the plumber up here uh he got
a mini x he did all the underground
he did all the roughing and he did all
the the finish work
this price does include the freestanding
tub all the sinks
stuff like that as far as that goes i
was about thirteen thousand dollars to
have
them come up here and do this that was
something that
it was kind of a time crunch thing too
we were working on so many other things
we didn't really have time
to try to learn the trade or try to have
people come up here and teach us so
we contracted that out we don't got to
worry about it if a pipe breaks or
something it's not on us
and that's something that we didn't want
to have a headache for so
um hbac i met someone at work that came
up here and did i became friends with
him
i spent around 8 800 doing that that
includes a
250 000 btu heater in the shop that's
what keeps that place warm
throughout the entire winter it's heated
that includes the
ac condenser outside we got the
thermostat smart thermostats are also
controlled from your phone
and the hvac turned out awesome in here
okay so moving on to the electrical i'm
an electrician as i said in the start of
the video my dad is also
an electrician so we were able to save a
ton of money that way
i also had a few co-workers come up here
and help me out on some stuff
i ended up spending still over ten
thousand dollars just
on parts to get this place wired up uh
your traditional house probably wouldn't
cost that much in parts i added smart
switches everywhere so i can program
like all the
eve lights to turn on at certain times
or bedroom lights whatever
um went a little bit overboard added a
ton of outlets got usb
outlets everywhere tons of lights you
guys can see
went overboard on everything but it
turned out awesome i wouldn't have it
any other way
so over ten thousand dollars on parts
that's no labor cost
with me and friends and my dad doing
this place up here
we got 49 lights outside we got eight
huge high bay lights out in the shop we
got a 10 foot ceiling fan up in the shop
so so drywall is one of those things
that
the cost of it doubled i thought it was
gonna be around six thousand dollars i
ended up spending
twelve thousand dollars to get this
place drywalled
i contracted out most of it me and some
friends did the
separation walls between the living and
the shop and we also did the ceiling
drywall's really hard to do um
so we started off with that and then we
did that so that the insulators could
come here and have backing for the spray
foam and we did it so they could also
come in and blow in the insulation in
the attic
we were planning on doing more of it but
after doing that we decided that we
needed to focus on other things right
now
and have a contractor come out bust it
out in a few days
we were gonna mud it have someone else
come and mud and tape it anyways so it
just made sense
just to have the con those guys come out
and do it it was about
uh just over ten thousand dollars so
it was a it was a big cost but i wanted
everything in the shop to be sheetrock i
wanted everything to be mud and taped i
wanted it all to look finished
i don't personally like it when you go
in a garage and it's just bare sheetrock
and you got like your tape lines and
stuff on it
could have saved a ton of money by doing
that but
long term i knew what i wanted so i
spent the extra money now and did that
so moving on from the drywall next up we
are going to talk about the
paint so on the inside of the house we
did
a satin paint you can see we did mostly
everything white we got a little bit of
blue in the bedrooms and in the kitchen
out in the shop we did a semi-gloss so
that it's
it's more of a waterproof layer over
everything and
with all the lights in there it reflects
everything really nice so
uh between those two areas we spent
about twenty eight hundred dollars on
painting
i gotta give my parents credit for that
they came up here and painted basically
this entire place
while me and mason were working on tons
of other things here
they were painting this place getting
making it so we didn't have to worry
about that
and that was super awesome awesome of
them to do it i also
bought a paint gun so when we primed it
i ran through primer and everything
and then when we jump outside to paint
the outside i have a paint gun ready for
that
so moving on from painting let's talk
about the tile in the bathrooms real
quick
that was also another expense that
didn't really need to be spent but
i i wanted it to look nice for many many
years to come i didn't want to have to
worry about
problems or anything so i contracted out
the tile we did the downstairs bathroom
all the way to the ceiling and tile
and uh the upstairs shower and where the
bathtub is all the way in tile
i spent around seven thousand dollars um
we had someone come up here and do that
again that was one of those time things
we're working on so many other things we
don't have time to
sit and mess around with tile we'll
leave it up to the professionals
and worry about things that we are
comfortable doing
this is the carpet i decided to go with
and this is the lvb
lvp flooring that we did um these are
both a little bit higher end the carpet
and this lvp but uh
it just comes back to i wanted i wanted
stuff to be nice i wanted it to last a
long time
for the flooring i spent about 6 200 i
contracted out the
carpet and then me and mason did all
this lvp flooring
still got to do a little bit on the
stairs but it's basically done
turned out awesome i wouldn't have it
any other way
love how it's split up with these
dividers you can see up in the master
bedroom it's the same way
let's talk about the kitchen for a
minute and the bathrooms so these
cabinets
are rta cabinets which means ready to
assemble they ship them to you
in boxes and then you build them they
were about
forty two hundred dollars just for the
cabinets
um they turned out awesome they're just
a shaker white i believe
and then we did a granite countertops so
went a little over budget on that
we were originally going to do concrete
countertops but i
ended up going granite i had a friend
that does granite so he was able to hook
me up there
spent about another 4 200 on the granite
so this this stuff all turned out
awesome you can see in the bathrooms it
all matches we also did some granite in
the window sills so
upstairs in the master shower there's
granite in the shelves and
stuff like that so we're a little over
budget on that also
but i love the way it turned out you see
all of the
stainless steel appliances we have in
here we got the
fridge we got the range we also have the
sink
and the dishwasher i spent about four
thousand dollars on appliances
that includes the stackable washer and
dryer out in the shop
i got some higher-end appliances was
able to save a lot of money i bought
them during
christmas time at home depot they have
some amazing deals so that's something
to consider if you're building
for deals to come out even i had the
appliances sitting out in the shop for
about a month before they were even put
in
set out in the shop in boxes but because
i was i was able to save i think
i think it was about three or four
thousand dollars i think i got about
fifty percent off
overall the entire purchase so watch out
for sales even if they got a if you have
a place to store them it's worth it
moving on from the appliances
we're going to talk about the propane
outside so
there's no natural gas up here or
anything like that so all the appliances
are propane they were converted from
natural gas so we got a thousand gallon
propane tank
we got gas lines ran throughout this
entire place
up to the big 250 000 btu heater the
furnace the range stuff like that
i spent around four thousand dollars
getting that whole setup done
that's required up here with how i'm up
on the hill
so that's just basically a rough cost on
some of the main categories that i think
you guys would have questions about
so if you do have additional questions
and more of a breakdown i'd be happy to
go back and look at receipts
just leave me send me an email or leave
me a comment about something specific
and i'll go back through
there was a lot of trips to home depot
to buy screws to vinyls to buy
you know whatever it was i spent about
232 000
um building this place and then after
the closing costs on my loan
and after paying back the 401k place
that lent me the money
i spent uh i actually financed 250 000
so after everything was said and done
that's what i financed
i still have a lot of stuff to do here
but that'll be with my own personal
money
everything is done mortgage is done i
actually just made my first
mortgage payment yesterday so that's all
done i'll have to spend my own money
fixing everything else up but that's no
problem
again a huge thanks to all my friends
and family that came up here and
and helped me build this place or anyone
that just was willing to borrow me a
nail gun or whatever it was
mason he was up here the whole time he
actually rents this room over here from
me
he was here from the start helping me
with everything a huge shout out to him
i would have been able to do this
without him so um
also some trees and stuff there's still
tons of tons of stuff to be done around
here so
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super fun documenting this when i was uh
trying to
build a place like this and look online
for ideas there wasn't really a lot of
them
so that's why i'm so happy to send out
the pdfs for free or answer any
questions or anything like that
because i was in your guys spot not too
long ago trying to ask people and it was
a hard time getting people to comment
back or
send me four pens or anything like that
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