Home Additions

Cost per square foot is a very poor way to gauge the cost of completing your home addition. Since all houses, properties, and family needs are different, it’s impossible to guess how much an addition will cost without talking to a local contractor. However, as a general guideline, you can expect to spend an average of $100 to $200 or more per square foot for building costs. In addition to building costs, you have to consider costs for furnishings and amenities. When you increase the square footage of your home, you also increase your heating and cooling energy costs. In addition, your property taxes will likely increase, since tax assessments are based on a home’s square footage.

Before adding on, assess your current living space and determine if the addition will accomplish your needs and solve your problems. If your house is small and doesn’t include a guest room, a bedroom addition would allow out-of-town family members and friends to visit more often. If your grandchildren love to play at your house, an added playroom would provide a safe space for activities.

Before you spend the money for a room addition, make sure it will add benefits to your lifestyle and give you needed space.

The cost of a home addition entirely depends on the type and the extent of the project you plan to make. That’s why it’s difficult to provide an estimate without more information on your individual project. Majority of the time a home addition is being built between 100-200 per square foot as a pricing range reference. In todays market majority of homes are being listed and selling for around 200 per square foot. In short building a home addition you will always be able to recoup your investment for equal or higher value.

Most municipalities have zoning restrictions that dictate what you can build and where you can build it. For example, in most Texas residential areas, you’re generally not allowed to build anything within 20 feet of the front of your property; 15 feet of the rear; and 7.5 feet of either side. There are also other building restrictions governing height which can limit room additions that build up instead of out. It’s best to talk to your contractor about local building codes that may impact your addition.

A room addition takes careful planning so it looks like it was always part of the house when it’s finished. You need to consider how the roofline of the addition connects to the house and how to enhance the style of the house with doors, windows and exterior materials and finishes.

Depending on your space needs and property size, you will need to decide if you should build up or build out. If your property size restricts building out, building up may be your only option to achieve your goals, but building up is always more expensive. Main-level additions are often the simplest, since they don’t require retrofitting the home’s foundation. Second-story additions often require structural retrofitting down to the foundation, as well as moving interior walls and removing exterior materials.

Since the success of your project relies heavily on strong management, we are extremely selective and hire only the best project managers. Our project managers receive extensive and ongoing training on a weekly and monthly basis. The success of our business is built on the strength of our project managers and we are proud of the highly skilled team we have assembled at Texas Built Construction. Our team uses a top of the line project management software to guide your project from start to completion in the most efficient way possible.

Each of our projects is as unique and diverse as our clients, which is exciting for us and important to our clients. However, if we have a project under construction, and we have the permission of the client we would love to show you a project in action! This is a great way to assess a contractor as you get to see things from the inside out. For Texas Built Construction, this is also an opportunity to show what makes our approach so unique and what makes the TBC Difference when building your home addition.

Prior to every projects contractual execution we set a Fixed Fee for our company that will not change throughout the entire project. This allows our team to establish complete transparency during the construction process.

At Texas Built Construction we believe that the price of your project should not come with surprises. That’s why we offer guaranteed pricing with a stipulated sum. The price of your project will be the same on the day it is completed, as the day you signed your contract.