Build your addition with us.
From design to taking that first step through the front door, Ahrens GC will be by your side as you plan and construct your home’s addition. We specialize in coordinating the best available professionals for every detail of your project, making our process easy and smooth, with clear communication and high quality work from start to finish.
Envision.
All projects should begin with a vision. Before embarking on this important journey, we want to make sure you know what you want and that what you want is clearly outlined on a blueprint. A blueprint casts a vision for everyone involved and allows us to plan and to create an accurate estimate for the whole project.
In the Envision process, we sit down together and:
Discuss what your goal is for your house and
What is most important
At this stage we deliver a rough estimate of your project with a range of what we think it will cost. Then we repeat this envision process until we get near your budget.
We are not architects and we do not claim to be amazing at layouts and perfectly real 3D renderings which cost $1000’s from a well trained architect, but we do offer in house design that allows us to save our clients a lot of money on architectural designs. We understand the structure of a house and the basics of a great layout. Most of our clients never need more than what we provide.
We use professional grade architectural software that provides scalable layouts and 3D renderings so that we can help you fully imagine your project.
A snapshot of one of our 3D Renderings.
Plan
There are so many different choices to be made on an addition. We make sure that we are all on the same page by concisely outlining every portion of the project in a contract. Having a clear plan for us, you, and everyone who works on our projects is essential in ensuring a smooth building process. By the end of the Planning phase we will have a firm contract worked out so that we can prepare to Build.
Build.
Once the stars have aligned, the banks have cooperated, contracts with all parties signed, and the weather is more than freezing, we are ready to BUILD! The building process for a small to mid-sized addition is usually between 2 and 6 months from breaking dirt to finishing.
We are always in constant contact with our clients because we want you to know what is getting accomplished, what we need from you, and where we are at on the schedule. We welcome our clients onto our job sites at anytime so long as safety is observed.
Payment scheduling
Every project will have its own contract and payment schedule. Typically we progress invoice for material deposits, labor completion, and for monthly material bills as needed. This should go without saying, but we never pay our subcontractors for work before a quality inspection by us. We take quality assurance seriously and the contractors we work with do too and are willing stake their reputations on it. They are honest.
Check out one of our recent projects!
Being a young family, this family was looking for a new home construction that would work within their budget, but allow for significant growth. They landed on this 1400 sqft, 2 bed, 2 bath home with a full basement ready to be finished with time and as their budget would allow. This ranch style home is a large open concept with “direction”. Even though the kitchen, living, and dining areas were one room, the shapes of the room, the vaulted ceilings, and the window layout makes it feel as if several conversations and/or activities can be happening at once without interfering with each other, unlike many other open concept layouts. This was key to this homeschool family as they desired to allow room for their children to study intently, in addition to having plenty of space for hosting and family gatherings. This house also boasts a huge garage, allowing for their family’s entrepreneurial lifestyle and their gigantic 4 door pickup truck!
Overall this house turned out to be a perfect fit for this family, and will definitely be enjoyed by them for many years to come.
We’d love to work with you through every step of your new home’s construction.
Home is where the heart is, and we put our hearts into every new home! Contact us today.