Specifications are many times referred to as the "description of materials."
Specifications are going to indicate the quality of the materials going into your home. To go to the local supplier and tell them you want 300 linear feet of two-by-fours is not good enough. They need to know whether they are pine or ฝากขายทาวน์เฮ้าส์ fir or cedar.
If nothing else, I recommend you obtain a copy of the six page Description of Material forms recommended by HUD (Housing and Urban Development). You can download blank copies of these forms by visiting their web site.
It's not mandatory to fill out every blank on these forms. The more blanks you fill out, however, the more clarity you provide and the more assumptions you avoid. In this business of building or remodeling, anytime you assume anything you're going to make an "ass" out of "u" and "me." Don't ass-u-me anything in this industry.
Don't think these six pages of forms are over kill. Even a small commercial job may have 200 pages of specifications. A home is much more complicated than a small commercial job.
I want to acknowledge you for reading my articles or listening to my lessons and learning from my mistakes. I am amazed at the number of people I've talked with who chose to ventured into building a home without knowing what I'm teaching.
But I also know that many of you kind of "fly by the seat of your pants," learning from other people's experiences. You may look at these HUD forms and find them to be a little confusing and appear complicated, so you will likely hire somebody to fill them out. That's okay, but let me tell you, you are selling yourself way too short if you don't sit down for a couple of hours with a dictionary and/or a building reference book and look up all these words and terms to understand what they mean. I want you to know what a stair stringer is. I want you to know what a brick lintel is. Spend a little time and do this, then if you still want to hire someone else to fill out these forms, do so. You are still going to be way ahead of the pack.
To further clear up any ambiguities and prevent unwanted assumptions, I want you to include with your description of material or specifications a "Finish Schedule." On the finish schedule you will assign a name to every room in your home. The plans or drawings will normally denote the major rooms like a dining room or kitchen. If they did not name every area, I want you to label those areas something like this: "hallway 1" and "hallway 2." On your finish schedule you will list all of these areas and indicate what you're going to have on the floors, on the walls, and on the ceiling.
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