What factors affect your cost per square foot? What is the difference between the cost per square foot for a log home vs a conventional home? How is cost per square foot calculated?
Should you use a cost per square foot number to estimate your cost to build a log home? These questions are answered in this video.
Cost Per Square Foot– Video Transcription
One of the questions you’ll hear throughout the construction industry is, “What is the cost per square foot to build a home?” This is really a deceptive term because there are so many factors that go into determining your cost per square foot, and these factors can change. They can give you a wrong feeling for what the actual cost of construction is.
For example, if you take a 1500 square foot house and you have a thousand square foot porch going around it. The cost of that porch would be included in your cost numbers, but there’s no square footage being added. So, your cost per square foot is a simple fraction, which is the cost divided by the amount of square footage.
Another example is the garage. If you have an attached garage, the cost of that garage, and building it would be in your cost numbers, but it doesn’t add to your square footage. So, your cost per square foot varies greatly from one home to another depending on the design of the home.
As a general rule of thumb, I would say that the cost per square foot for a log home is going to be very similar to the cost per square foot to build a custom home in your area, as long as the design of the home is similar.