Building a New Home: 3 Critical Construction Components

3 Critical Construction Components in Building a New Home 

I was talking to my father this weekend as we were working on my son's home, remodeling his basement with a new bathroom and utility room.  During our casual conversations, I mentioned to my father that I was putting this blog together to share information about new home building and one of the first words out of my father's mouth was the 3 critical construction components of building a new home.  As I was thinking about these 3 components, I had to ask myself, do builders really think about these 3 critical construction components and are buyers really aware of how critical these 3 components are in building a new home?  What do you think? 

3 Critical Construction Components in Building a New Home:

1. Elevation: land is land, right?  Well, positioning of your new home on this land can be the difference in long term satisfaction and a life of problems.  Think with the end in mind.  Do you want a steep driveway?  How about landscaping and water problems?  What will the neighborhood allow, are you blocking someone else's view? 
2. Foundation/Basement: does it really matter how thick the walls are in a basement and how long the concrete has time to cure?  What about the positioning of the sump pump, practical positioning with respect to basement utilitization?  Proper drainage piping and diversion.  Sealing the exterior. What about how the basement and be utilitized with the positioning of the HVAC, sump pump, electrical?
3. Framing: I've heard more complaints from builders about the quality of framing a new home than should be necessary.  Keeping the framework from sill to roof, square and level are oh so critical, using the 3, 4,5 rule!  If you think about it, everything you do after this will make the job easy or hard.  Trimwork will fit with nice tight joints with little effort in cutting angles, cabinetry can be created to fit a level and square kitchen, bath, etc... Carpeting, tile, granite can be cut to fit without difficulty. 

If these things are a constant thought to the builders, then you can save yourself grief and some of that hard earned dollars to put into other things in your new home!!   What do you think?  I'm I wrong?