Calif. Pre-Cut Homes has a drafting company called Diablo Valley Drafting or Mageloff Design. We are not a licensed architect. We do have a structural engineer who will complement our service. Calif. Pre-Cut Homes does 20 to 80 drafting jobs a year. We can draft new homes, garages, additions and small accessory buildings. The majority of the work produced by Calif. Pre-Cut Homes is custom design floor plans and packages. When we say “custom” we do not mean high-end. We mean custom to the owner’s wants and needs. We will be more than happy to work in developing a truly custom and affordable plan. If you already have a completed set of plans, we would be able to work from those as well.

Drafting Costs

These sections below are the costs of blue prints with Calif. Pre-Cut Homes.

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Here are our drafting charges, but please let us do the math in figuring out the cost for your drafting project.

Hidden Costs of Engineering

These costs are only important if the building department requires them. We will have to charge you for any of the items below:

1. Engineer coming out to the job site to evaluate some part of the project, required by the building department.
2. Letter from the engineer fixing a problem created in the field.
3. Need the Engineer of records to review the truss calculations, required by the building department.
4. Retaining wall costs vary because of the height of the wall and the number of walls created.

Drafting Examples

There are eight typical drafting charges for custom plans, ranging from 22 x 24 garage, 1,000 Sq. Ft. addition, & six new homes from 1,500 TO 4,000 Sq. Ft. The examples used reflect single and two story pricing. We can draft almost any size, from 400 Sq. Ft. to 10,000 Sq. Ft.

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(*) Note: Most building departments are using the 2010 C.B.C. This may require the engineer to inspect the foundation before pouring. There could be an added charge for job site visit: $100 to $700. Our drafting service is provided, as an extra, to help you in designing your home for our open wall panel system. This helps us in making your custom home more affordable. The plans can be used by a local builder for almost any framing system. As an extra incentive to using our package and building with CALIF. PRE-CUT HOMES, you get a drafting rebate against your lumber contract with CALIF. PRE-CUT HOMES. For a rebate of 50%, we will have P.M.H.I. draft your plans, but this may take much longer. ** These are just some examples to give an idea of what is in the drafting package. We quote each plan as a custom project with its needs and special requirements.

Drafting Consultation for Additions

In Home Drafting Consultation for Additions. Fee $500.

Our service (of $500) includes a minimum two hour in-home visit to meet with you and your family, to find out what kind of addition you are looking for, to walk over the property, and to take pictures if necessary. Our visit is to help establish the ideas and goals you are trying to obtain. If you like what we’ve discussed, we will give you an estimate for the completion of plans needed in order to get a building permit. Fees are based on a cost per square foot. If you decide to purchase our product for your addition, CPH will give a percentage off rebate of the drafting fees. There is no rebate for the $500 site visit. When using our services, you will save a considerable amount on drafting and building with CPH.

After the visit, we will provide a 1/4″ scale drawing of the requested plan. For this exceptional price, the addition must be over 500 sq. ft. to 600 sq. ft. For additions over 600 sq. ft., the visit will be billed at 30 cents per sq. ft. In all cases, the rebate for drafting is implemented when you build with CPH. (Due to the discount, the $500 is pre-paid before we make the visit.) We are looking forward to helping you save a lot of time and money by using our building system.

Additions Only

Site visit and in house evaluation: This service includes a minimum two-hour in-home visit to meet with you and your family, find out what kind of addition you are looking for, to walk over the property, & to take pictures of the property. Our visit will help establish the ideas and goals you are trying to obtain. If you like what we have discussed, we will give an estimate for the completion of plans needed to get a building permit. These fees are based on a cost per square foot. If you decide to purchase our pre-cut product for your addition, CPH will give an appropriate rebate of the drafting fees.

The difference between Stick Building versus Panelizing Building which is what we are. We are known as an “Open-wall Panelized” building system.

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Planning:

The first step in creating a new home is finding a building site you like. Once you have found the property, you will want to find out what you can and cannot do to the property. Find out what size of building can be built there, what the setbacks are, any restrictions, and what the “requirements” are for your neighborhood. Once you know what you can and cannot do to your property, then it is time to create or pick a plan. You will want to create or pick a plan that conforms to your building site in order to lessen the cost of construction in grading and foundation.

 

Cutting:

Once your plans are completed and you have a building permit, the factory will then create a wall layout that matches your blue prints. All the exterior and interior walls, window locations, and doorways will be shown. Once the layout is completed, the factory will start to cut your building and prepare it for delivery.

Delivery:

Once you have your permit, it is time to pick the delivery date best for you and the factory. The factory likes to deliver their packages Tuesday threw Thursday. On the day of delivery, you will want to have the job site prepared to take the package. You will need a large place to store all your building materials or several small areas. We prefer to put the walls on top of the sub-floor, so you will not have to carry them all over the job site. We will then put all the dimensional lumber and plywood around the foundation. We will leave the roof system off to the side because, that is the last to be assembled. We will try to get the package as close to the foundation as possible. When we deliver a package on a 40’ flat bed truck, a forklift comes with the delivery. For a project with more than one truck or a muddy job site, you might want to look into renting a heavy duty 4×4 forklift or ask about our heavy-duty forklift. Smaller projects will be delivered on a 24’ bobtail truck without a forklift to unload. You will want to have 4 to 5 people ready to help unload the bobtail truck.

Inventory:

Once the package has been delivered to the job site and is ready for assembly, you will want to inventory the material to make sure everything has been delivered. This will give you a chance to know where all the different materials are located on your job site. On the day of delivery, a representative from Calif. Pre-Cut Homes will be there to help with the unloading process, to work with the client, the truck driver, the contractor, and then to inventory the package. If you would like, he will take care of delivering the package onto the job site. He will put the bundles of walls onto the sub-floor in the location they are supposed to go. Throughout the years, Calif. Pre-Cut Homes has seen thousand of different deliveries and delivery sites. We will review the job site and the package and come up with a game plan that works for you and your contractor to best unload the package onto the job site.

Framing:

Now that the package has been delivered to the job site, it is time to construct the building. The blue prints, panel plan, and inventory sheet should be at the job site at all times.

 

Finishing:

Once the building has been framed, it is now time to start finishing the inside. The electrical, plumbing, insulation, dry wall, flooring, cabinets, counter-tops, bath tubs, toilets, lights, appliances, paint, and roofing material are controlled by you within the local market. You have the ability to install any finishing product you choose to work with. Whether it is a high-end or a low-end product, it is all your choice.

Calif. Pre-Cut Homes has been the OWNER-BUILDER LEADER IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES SINCE 1976. We are the leading dealership for Pacific Modern Homes Inc. Since 1983, Matt & Dennis has been “Dealer of the Year” 15 out of 27 years. (They have been second runner up 10 times, and 25 out of 27 years with PMHI Matt & Dennis have become a top producer of their product.)

DEALER OF THE YEAR PLAQUE

27 Year Record

 

Dealer of the Year Trophies

1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009

 

“Runner Up to Dealer of the Year”

1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990,
1991, 1992, 1995, 2005 & 2011

Calif. Pre-Cut Homes has delivered thousands of packages consisting of homes, additions, garages, granny units, chalets, barns, & multiple dwellings all over the west coast. Our smallest package was a 8’ x 8’ shed erected in three hours with teenage volunteers for the Fremont YMCA and one of our largest packages was a 22,000 sq. ft. apartment building in downtown Oakland framed up in 55 days. A 7,000 sq. ft. one-story bed and breakfast retreat on the big island of Hawaii was framed in 5 weeks, as well as a 7,000 sq. ft. two-story house in the Oakland / Piedmont hills area framed in 4 weeks.

Plaque for Certified Dealer of PMHI

 

Plaque for PMHI 20 Year Club

 

Plaque for PMHI 25 Year Club

25th year arrived but no picture to show!

 

Plaque for Better Business Bureau

with a A+ rating!