Building Practices and Specifications

Building Specifications
While we offer a true custom home that allows the client the flexibility to have choices in materials to include exterior finishes, paint colors, light fixtures, hardware, appliances, flooring, windows, doors, etc. We have established standard specifications for each home. Although these can be modified by the homeowner, our minimum standards are as follows:

  • Soil test engineered foundation, no post tension slabs
  • 3000 PSI concrete with six mil poly waterproofing
  • 2 x 4 stud grade on sixteen-inch centers
  • Treated bottom plates with six-inch anchor bolts on sixty-inch spacing
  • Insulation package R-13 walls, R-22 sloped ceilings, knee walls or ceiling areas, R-30 batt insulation
  • Roof rafters at sixteen-inches centers
  • Elk Prestique II thirty-year shingles
  • Matching shingle-over-ridge vents
  • Hardi siding and Hardi soffits for low maintenance
  • King-size brick veneer / per plans
  • Conventional stucco — 3-coat system
  • Continuous soffit venting
  • All-copper electrical wiring
  • 200-amp electrical service
  • Security pre-wired with battery-operated smoke detectors
  • Satellite, CATV coax and cat-5 telephone wiring
  • 12 SEER Ruud HVAC system with matching furnaces and digital thermostats
  • 50-gallon water heater
  • Septic system as required
  • Copper supply lines with PVC vents and drains
  • Standard four-hose bibs provide
  • 1/3 hp kitchen sink disposal
  • Pressure-balanced decorator Moen fixtures
  • Low E insulated aluminum frame windows, design and color of choice
  • Polyseal foam at windows, doors, plates and any openings
  • Energy-efficient ceiling fans
  • Sheetrock Bull Nose, rounded corners throughout and Green Rock for wet areas
  • Custom lighting, fixtures and hardware
  • Six-panel Masonite Elite three-hinge interior doors
  • On-site job-built custom cabinetry and trim with solid wood products
  • Ceramic tile kitchen backsplash
  • Exterior siding will have two coats of paint with your choice of two colors
  • Choice of three interior pain colors with two coats on walls and over lacquer prim for painted trim, if chosen
  • Cultured marble tub and shower surrounds, color chosen by client
  • Substantial allowances for your choices in lighting, front door, appliances and flooring
  • TEN-YEAR STRUCTURAL WARRANTY
  • Ceiling heights per plans with many tray, coffier or other ceiling treatments.

Eddings Signature Homes, Inc. offers custom design changes to preliminary blueprints to fit your needs and also has hundreds of custom plans available to choose from. The above specifications can be altered to meet the needs of your budget or enhanced to your requirements. Crown molding in foyer, dining, and master bedroom is standard in most homes.

 

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