Watch a home become checkable — the PlanProof construction journey
Thirteen phases of new residential construction, in build order, assembled as you scroll.
Phase 01 — Site: It starts as a survey
Corner pins, offset stakes, a string line where the foundation will sit. Nothing is built yet and the plans are already making promises.
Every promise on this lot is a number someone will be held to.
Phase 02 — Excavation: Dirt moves first
The pad is cut, the footing trenches are dug, and the spoil goes in a pile that will be graded back at the end.
The first dollar leaves before a single stick of lumber shows up.
Phase 03 — Foundation: Footings, then walls that carry the house
Continuous footings, stem walls on top of them, anchor bolts set in the wet concrete while it can still take them.
Concrete is the one line item nobody gets to redo cheaply.
Phase 04 — Floor deck: The first thing you can stand on
Sill plates, rim joists, floor joists at sixteen on center, and sheets of subfloor glued and nailed down over the top.
Framed area is measurable. The spacing it was framed at is an assumption, and somebody should have to say it out loud.
Phase 05 — Wall framing: Walls go up stick by stick
Bottom plate, studs at sixteen on center, king and jack studs at every opening, headers over the holes, double top plate to tie it together.
This is where a takeoff either knew about your openings or invented them.
Phase 06 — Interior partitions: Rooms appear before any of them exist
Interior walls land on the deck and the plan finally reads like a house: hallway, kitchen wall, bedroom doors framed as rough openings.
Interior linear feet are their own scope — priced differently from the walls that hold the roof up.
Phase 07 — Roof framing: The ridge, then everything that leans on it
Ridge board set, rafters dropped in pairs at twenty-four on center, collar ties above and ceiling joists below, gable ends framed out flush.
Pitch drives rafter length, and rafter length drives the lumber order.
Phase 08 — Sheathing: It becomes a solid shape
Wall sheathing goes on in four-by-eight sheets, then the roof deck, and for the first time the frame stops looking like a diagram.
Sheets are the easiest quantity to fake and one of the easiest to prove.
Phase 09 — Windows and doors: Light gets let in on purpose
Units go into the rough openings they were framed for — glass, frames, the front door on its hinges, sills flashed.
A window schedule is a real document. Counting units off it is the whole job.
Phase 10 — Exterior cladding: The skin, course by course
Lap siding runs up the walls a course at a time, brick water table at the base, corner boards, fascia, soffit, gutters, and shingles over the deck.
Siding is sold by the square. Squares come from wall area minus openings — the subtraction people skip.
Phase 11 — Rough-in: The parts you will never see again
Trunk duct down the center, branch runs to each room, wire to every box, supply lines threaded through bored studs — all of it while the bays are still open.
The last honest look inside your own walls, unless somebody wrote it down.
Phase 12 — Insulation and drywall: The walls close
Insulation fills every bay, then board goes up and the frame disappears behind a surface you can paint.
From here on, the only record of what is inside is the record somebody kept.
Phase 13 — Finish: A house, at the end of a long day
Porch, walk, driveway, grade and grass. Lights on inside. What is left is a home and a paper trail — and only one of those is optional.
PlanProof keeps the paper trail: measured from the plans, priced before a dollar moved, provable afterward.
A home you can check, from the first line on the plans to the last day you live in it.
This is a real home: its storeys are the wall sets a PlanProof takeoff measured from its blueprints, not a stock model. Solid parts stand on measured lines — the ground floor at its sheet's proved scale, the storey above at the scale its sheet states while the engine finishes proving it. Solid windows and doors are the schedule's real units at their drawn positions; see-through ones are placed, not measured, and sketched panels close stretches the capture did not cover. Roof massing, chimneys and facade materials follow the drawn elevations. Add your plans and this journey becomes your house.