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Originally Posted by Azure
That too.
Most builders I know have a labor problem that is keeping them from building more houses.
Most homes being built are just repeat versions of the home next door. Not exactly reinventing the wheel, and once a builder has a good process figured out, I'm sure they can bang out homes quickly.
But you know, labour.....
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I framed houses as a summer job back in high school and this is pretty accurate. Most of the plans we did were ~90% the same and a lot of the work became pretty repetitive.
There would be 3 of us (2 framers, and me, the grunt) building typical ~2,000sf, 2 storey front garage homes... We'd show up to nothing but a foundation on Monday and have the house fully framed with a sheathed roof on Friday, sometimes end of day Thursday.
I know there are a number of advances in pre-fabed materials in the last 20 years that would likely speed up the process today.