“Free Presentation Coming Soon – Title: From Dream To Reality: A Home Builder’s Roadmap”
Do you face these challenges ?
1. You want to build a dream house or any other immovable property?
2. You are a busy professional
with little time for things outside your work?
3. You are in need of
competent building construction and design consultancy?
4. You are failing to find someone who is trustworthy, technically skilled and an able advisor to effectively handle your custom project on your behalf?
Hie ! Iam Cain Ndhlovu a member of Team DayCast. Team DayCast are entrepreneurs who bring together different talents in order to help local Zimbabweans and those in the diaspora with house building design and construction solutions that turn dreams into real homes in a fashion that is enjoyable and stress free.
I do relate …
Here is my
own story.
A generous friend called Thando helped me in 2007 to get employment as a
Sales Negotiator at a real estate agency.
My job was to help home seekers find a home of their dreams.
It was a huge responsibility involving people’s lifetime savings.
I remember at one point having to safely keep
$40 000.00 worth of Avenues flat sale
proceeds as I waited for the seller to collect
his money.
As I look back today I realize that real estate wasn’t just a job but a character
development experience also.
Joining Team DayCast is a continuation of this journey in a sister
industry – building design and construction. Helping both local and diaspora
Zimbabweans turn their dream homes into real homes is a huge responsibility
too.
Life time savings are also involved. A professional character is also demanded.
Apart from me other members of Team DayCast also have interesting stories to tell.
Take for example Mr Rogers Muchinapo a senior team member, the guy started
designing and constructing homes and buildings in 1992.
It all started when a client asked him to
translate his abstract ideas into legible
building designs.
After the designs were done the client was so impressed by the designs
made by Mr Muchinapo such that he asked him to build the real building.
Building design is involving and
it demands a whole professional called an architect. Building construction is
also involving and it requires another whole professional called a contractor.
For one man to do both intrigued Mr Muchinapo because building a house whilst being inspired by the original vision not mere paper drawings enabled him to do work that better satisfied client needs.
One of the worries you might have is “ Will my house be built exactly as
I envisioned it ?” Isn’t it ?
Our one stop shop approach merging design and construction has helped us
perfect our skill in this area and have made it our life’s work.
It is in this context that we
would like to give you a free three part presentation titled From Dream To Reality A Home Builder’s
Roadmap.
The presentation content will be as follows;
From
Dream To Reality
A Home Builder’s Roadmap
Your dream is not day dreaming after all !
There is
a roadmap or steps that can be taken in order to translate this dream into a
real home.
Here are
these;
(1) Dream
“A dream
is a cherished aspiration, ambition or ideal.” This is according to Oxford Language an online
dictionary.
This is
not a requirement but it is important. In life in order to create the motivation
to achieve your goal you must have the burning desire to reach it.
(2) Translate The Dream To Legible Designs
From
dreams about the future home you may begin with drawing sketches. I would like you
to go a step further by creating legible designs commonly known as building
plans.
To have
building plans drawn you need an architect.
Benefits
Of An Architect
(a) It is
an offence to commence construction without an approved plan. An architect therefore
will create legitimate drawings that satisfy relevant City Council by-laws.
(b) Following
the above the architect will play the role of moderating your plan so that your
vision and building laws in your area find each other.
(3)
Translate The Designs To A Building
After
drawing your building plans the architect passes on your plans to the
contractor so that he builds your house.
So what
are the steps taken by the contractor to build your house ? The steps taken are
the stages the City Council require as necessary for the final issuance of a
certificate of occupation.
Here are
these;
(a)Siting And Foundation Level
(b)Damp
Proof Level (Box)Prior To Concrete Casting
(c)
Lintel Level
(d) Wall
Plate Level
(e) Roof
Trusses
(f) Final Test For Certificate Of Occupation
(1) Not
Knowing Your Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
First of all you must determine what a successful
building project is. There are three simple Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that
are used to assess this, none more important than the others;
1. Cost (preferably low)
2. Quality (preferably high)
3. Time (preferably low)
These can be
weighted differently depending with your project.
For example,
if your project is for investment purposes, Cost will of course be most
important. If you are building a multimillion dollar property, you are going to
be most interested in Quality. If the project is a school being built in time
for the start of term, Time trumps the others.
However, all
three KPIs will always be of some importance and worth considering.
(2) Not
Having A Contingence Fund
You might think you have planned everything well from
the outset, and you are happy. Nothing can go wrong, right? Wrong!
The things
that will impact your project more than anything else can all be placed under
the rather wide umbrella of Unforeseen Events.
The contractor
will deserve additional Time and money for any additional work as a result. You
must therefore set aside a contingence fund for this.
(3)
Compromising Location For Price
A huge mistake that homeowners make
concerning custom homes is compromising location for price.
Although a cheaper stand may be tempting,
you have to remember location. In terms of property, amenities are key.
Homes in prime locations like medium to low
density areas ( Mainway meadows to Borrowdale in Harare) are instantly valued
higher.
If you build a Borrowdale house in Budiriro
5 you are over-investing and you will likely sell at a loss in the event that
you decides to do so.
(4) Failure To Know Zoning Laws
Not knowing the proper building codes or zoning laws will put your home at risk of being condemned. For example in high density areas the City Council doesn’t allow people to build double story houses.
THE END
Do not miss this presentation’s upcoming sequels in which we will give more detail pertaining items introduced.
What are the problems that you are facing building your new house ? Please post them in the comment section below.
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