You’ll also get to meet the construction manager responsible for your family’s home, talk about construction timeframes, learn about all of your warranties,and have the opportunity to ask all the questions you want.
Pre-Construction Meeting
Customer involvement is extremely important to FieldStone Homes. After all, we’re not building just another house, we are building your family’s home. So before the building of your home begins, we hold a pre-construction meeting to go over all of the aspects of construction. We take time to verify all of the selections that you’ve made at the FieldStone HomeFitting® Center.
Interim Framing Walkthrough We Inspect and are Inspected
This pre-construction meeting gets the process off on the right foot and let’s you know that you are more than welcome to be involved in the process.
Once the frame for your home has been put in place, we invite you to walk with the construction manager as we take a look at the progress to date. We review the structural items, in-home options to be installed and even discuss how the property will drain. This is also another great opportunity for you to ask questions so you’ll feel secure about the final product.
Quality Checkpoints
FieldStone’s eight-step Quality Checkpoints program helps us build structural character into every FieldStone home. These inspection points help us ensure your home meets our high construction standards every step of the way. There is a long list of items we check in each step:
1. Foundation
2. Interim Frame
3. Framing and Mechanical
4. Drywall
5. Interior Trim
6. Interior Paint
7. Mechanical Trims, Flooring, Tile, Lighting, Plumbing, Air Conditioning
8. Final Inspection to include an overall review of the structure, inside finish-out and testing of appliances and mechanical items
9. Third-party energy efficiency inspections
Even though construction can take as little as 3 months, your home will go through more than 20 inspections. FieldStone conducts its own inspections but we also hire outside inspectors to scrutinize every aspect of the structure. FieldStone uses Housing Energy Rating Specialists to inspect your home to make sure it can be “ENERGY STAR” approved.
That means the home:
•is thoroughly sealed and well-insulated
•includes air ducts that are tightly constructed to prevent air loss
•contains windows that efficiently handle heat and cold
•is inspected by a certified third party to verify all of these items
City inspectors also verify both structural and mechanical finishing for quality installation.
But we’re still not done. FieldStone’s own insurance provider assigns risk engineers to provide quarterly inspections at all phases of home construction.
By the time FieldStone completes a home, customers can be certain that every detail has been studied, installed and inspected with great care. That type of quality construction gives homeowners peace of mind. Let’s face it, buying a home is a major step for any family and your homebuilder’s job is to make things go right. FieldStone families can count on that type of customer care.
A Certified Quality Home
It’s time for move-in to your new FieldStone home. You’re excited and we’re excited. We’re both confident that your FieldStone home will give you room to grow, go easy on your budget and look beautiful for years to come. We’ll touch base with you about a month after you move in to make sure your family is feeling comfortable and to see if you have any questions. After 90 days, a FieldStone Sales Counselor will visit with you once again to make sure things are going well. As always, you are welcome to call us at any time.
It’s your home, and it’s a FieldStone home… a certified quality combination that lasts.
