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Green Building and ADUs

How do CalGreen Building Code requirements relate to ADUs? CalGreen Mandatory Measures are a requirement of the California Green Building Standards Code. These mandatory measures are required on all new homes and residences. Furthermore, they also apply to additions and alterations which increase the building’s conditioned area, interior volume, or size.  But be careful, not […]
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Posted on January 21, 2021
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Estimating change orders

We have written before about what you should expect to see in your ADU budget. We encourage you to make sure your budget includes all the big line items. As our founder likes to repeat, you cannot save money during ADU construction. You can only save money at the planning stage, when you are discussing […]
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Posted on January 19, 2021

ADUs and insurance policies.

If you have recently added an ADU – make sure you do not forget to include it in your insurance coverage – it might go under “other structures”. Actually, updating insurance is one of the most often forgotten things at the end of the project. Learn more about the technicalities of wild fire insurance policies […]
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Posted on January 5, 2021

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