What's your BuildIQ: Slab on Grade Foundations

Before you ever break ground, your customer has likely been dreaming of what their house will look and feel like. You know that there's a process to follow, and by setting your customer's expectations they'll understand the process too. Understanding the homebuilding process is important, but so is building for an end product and imagining the kind of home you want to build.

Setting the goal of building a safe, healthy, efficient, durable, and safe home provides a starting and ending point. Everything in the middle is the homebuilding process and your objectives. If you think of the goal as your path and each step as your objectives, you can make sure each step (objectives) is leading you to the end of your path. Stepping off your path results in high costs, delays, liability issues, and unhappy customers.

Slab-on-grade foundation construction is one of the first steps you'll take. Looking toward your goal of a quality home, you can prevent water intrusion and structural damage before they become a problem. To stay on your path, complete quality control inspections during foundation construction. These checkpoints ensure that your foundation is being built per the plans and specifications and that the foundation is protected from structural, weather, and water damage. Above all, the checkpoints help you meet customer expectations and raise your bottom line.

To access the checklists and guidelines that will help you conduct thorough, accurate quality control inspections go to http://hz.buildiquniversity.com to enroll in Foundations: Slab on Grade.