Burbank New Construction Built Step by Step
Ground-up houses in Burbank built in a fixed order, from survey and soils through permit, footings, frame and a dried-in shell, by Fernhill Builders.
Survey stakes, a soils report and a stamped drawing set have to agree with each other before an excavator is booked for a Burbank lot. Once they line up, the set goes to the Burbank building department, and plan check corrections are answered on paper. Only with the permit issued do layout and footings start, followed by the slab, the frame and a dried-in shell, with the exterior assemblies chosen well before the framer arrives.
What the drawings settle
Changes are cheap while a house exists only as sheets of paper. So the eave detail, the vent type, the siding, the window glazing and the roof covering are written into the set ahead of plan check, together with the energy forms and the structural calculations. We read every sheet against the others and mark clashes, such as a duct drawn through a beam or a window crowding a shear wall. Hardened choices like enclosed eaves and ember-resistant vents can be specified on any lot, each priced as its own line, so the decision is made while it is still a drawing.
Inspection by inspection
After the permit, the sequence on site is fixed. Layout and excavation lead, and the inspector sees the trenches and the steel before any concrete is placed. Underground plumbing is tested, the slab or stem walls go in, and framing follows. Rough plumbing, wiring and ductwork are installed inside the open frame, and the inspector signs off on them together with the frame before insulation and drywall cover anything. Windows, flashing and the roof are set to dry in the shell. A house in Glendale, Sun Valley or Toluca Lake is sequenced in this same order.
New Construction in Burbank: common questions
Window sizes and glazing, the siding and its backing, how the eaves are closed, the vent openings and the roof covering. Each one fixes a framed opening or a wall thickness, so a change after framing means rework. On a Burbank house we put them in the drawing set and the written scope at the same time.
Your own architect can carry the design, or we put together a team of architect, structural engineer and energy consultant, plus a soils engineer when the lot calls for one. We check each sheet against the rest, answer the plan checker's comments and keep the set current through the Burbank review.
We price a Burbank house once the drawings can be read in full. The written scope breaks the work into site preparation, foundation, framing, exterior shell, systems and finishes, and any allowance names what it covers. A per square foot figure skips the details that move the total, so we do not quote one.
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Tell us about the house and the new construction work. We reply about a walk-through and a written scope.