All Forum Posts by: Aaron McGinnis

Call your local tool rental shop and ask for air scrubbers. If it's a one-time thing, it's probably not worth buying one. A good air scrubber will be $900+ (We use Dri-eaz defendairs and they're awesome)

@D Beard - I may be able to help. Please feel free to reach out to me.

Website is pretty much garden variety template with a few hours of uploading pictures dumped into it, instagram is pretty thin and infrequently used.

Ask to walk a few job sites, and the advice from @Mitch Messer about vetting references is gold.

I may be able to help. Please feel free to contact me.

New construction, larger additions, challenging permit submission documents, complicated architectural work. Certainly, it's possible for a plan set to get more expensive but that's a typical maximum.

Our typical fee ranges from about $1100 to $6000, depending on the job and the jurisdiction, not including engineering or survey/site plan. We require a 50% deposit before we get in the car and start the engine to go measure.

Deliverables include as is/proposed floor plans, exterior elevations (if needed), roof plan (if needed), and preliminary site plan (if needed)... we can do 3d walk throughs as necessary, typically costs another thousand or so.

 The big jump from interior-only to addition is the need to measure and model the exterior of the house. It takes extra time when we measure, and more time for the drafting team to draw the whole exterior. There's also usually more redlining between our architect and our drafting team when we have to do the exterior work.

For additions, marrying up roof lines and getting the new/old 'knuckle' right is always the more challenging part of the design process and the drafting process. 

New construction saves time as there's no measure or model of an existing house, but there's site issues that always have to be worked out and that can take some time. We generally do a sketch elevation to present to the client, then follow that up with a full CAD draft once we have buy-in.

Depends on the type of plans. Simple interior renovations with no exterior work we typically turn out in a week or two. Exterior work generally 2-3 weeks, big additions maybe 3-4 weeks, new construction about the same as big addition.

We've got two different survey companies, a cheap one and an expensive one. The cheap one takes about 3-4 weeks, the expensive one is generally around a single week. Work is comparable. Site plans, generally 1-2 weeks. (We like to get the surveyor to do the site plans for additions and new construction)

I may be able to help.

Drive around looking for similar projects in framing. Stop and ask for the boss or the boss's card. 

Ask your other trades if they know a good renovation framer.

Ask local lumber yards who they might recommend.