Chapter 5-Scheduling the Home Construction Project (The Pat Fay Method)

In this chapter the homeowner will learn the basics of construction scheduling and how important a schedule is to the home construction project. You will learn how to make your own Gantt chart construction timeline, the use of the one page high level schedule, the more detailed low level schedule, what goes into a schedule, how long construction phases should take, build in buffer times in the schedule, how to use the project schedule to determine time and cost to the end of the project, the biggest problem Pat Fay found in home construction scheduling, what to do when a contractor is not meeting the schedule, and how long will your project take.