[Hatewintermn]

'ello

Lucas here, a 50 year old successful designer looking to move to vagas. For my job, I need about 200 Sq feet of "shop" or third stall in a 3 car garage, however I don't know what the HMO's would have to say about this.... also.... WHY don't you have basements??????

thanks

[BUGBULLY]

Originally Posted by Hatewintermn

'ello

Lucas here, a 50 year old successful designer looking to move to vagas. For my job, I need about 200 Sq feet of "shop" or third stall in a 3 car garage, however I don't know what the HMO's would have to say about this.... also.... WHY don't you have basements??????

thanks

Actually some homes do have basements. Most are in the South West and South East. America West built the homes with basements, quite a few communities.

[jfkIII]

Thw HMO's may advise against it, due to health reasons.

[desertsun41]

What kind of designer? I am a CKD and work directly with interior designers often when they feel like telling me how to design a kitchen. Wana see heads clash? Anyway most designers of all types are starving to death. Im not since I sell, design, build and install what I design.

Builders stopped building new homes so no more models to decorate and everyone else is too broke to spend on such a luxury an interior designer provides.

Good luck ! Try Dallas/FW or Houston area. They are now building homes as fast as they did in Vegas back in 2001-2004. It's booming !

[lvkewlkid]

we mainly don't have basements because of the hard soil...i have heard that the houses on the east side have basements and a lot of luxury homes on the mountains have basements...

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by lvkewlkid

we mainly don't have basements because of the hard soil...i have heard that the houses on the east side have basements and a lot of luxury homes on the mountains have basements...

As far as basements, you cant always dig here because we have something called celetchie. I may be spelling that wrong. Excavators here can not give a fixed price to dig. What they do is give you a price to dig PLUS $200/hr to hammer out celetchie. It's kind of like solid concrete of ledge rock as we called it back east. The backhoe will take off his shovel and put on a pointed 4" thick hammer. He puts his hydralic arm on vibrate and just sits there while the hammer breaks up the celetchie.

This does not make adding basements to homes feasable here.

[PinkString]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

As far as basements, you cant always dig here because we have something called celetchie. I may be spelling that wrong. Excavators here can not give a fixed price to dig. What they do is give you a price to dig PLUS $200/hr to hammer out celetchie. It's kind of like solid concrete of ledge rock as we called it back east. The backhoe will take off his shovel and put on a pointed 4" thick hammer. He puts his hydralic arm on vibrate and just sits there while the hammer breaks up the celetchie.

This does not make adding basements to homes feasable here.

It's actually caliche
Here's a link explaining it to the person wondering why there aren't too many basements here:
Caliche (mineral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

[VLWH]

You might look into a PPO.

Originally Posted by Hatewintermn

'ello

Lucas here, a 50 year old successful designer looking to move to vagas. For my job, I need about 200 Sq feet of "shop" or third stall in a 3 car garage, however I don't know what the HMO's would have to say about this.... also.... WHY don't you have basements??????

thanks

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by PinkString

It's actually caliche
Here's a link explaining it to the person wondering why there aren't too many basements here:
Caliche (mineral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Thats the stuff !!!

[olecapt]

You can almost always get away with whatever you want in the third bay. In bigger places you find workshops. May of the newer construction has a casita that may be adequate though some may be too small.

In general don't sweat the HOA a lot. Read the CC&Rs when you get them looking for any really hostile clauses. I don't know of any off hand.

Basements are not built because it is not customary and costs $20 to $30 per SF. You got to add another floor instead of just pouring a slab. There are level problems as the basement generally raises the height of the first floor a few feet. Caliche compounds that problem when it is encountered.

You can add a basement to any custom for around $30 psf plus any caliche charges.