@RoderickBuilder

Unrivaled Modern Design & Build Wasatch County, UT | Park City | Southern California Design Led. Construction Mastered.

 Heber City, UT
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Joined October 2025
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In Summit County a snowplow driver you'll never meet can cancel your workday. Open roadway excavation ends Oct 1. That's 10 days. Then Oct 15 to May 1, nothing in the road or within 5 ft of it. You don't build a mountain schedule. You negotiate one with winter. #ParkCity
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Park City's median is up 5.3%. That is not a hot market. Volume is down 32% year over year, homes now sit 53 days instead of 43, and 29% of listings cut price. Fewer trades at higher numbers is a thin market. Ask what's closing, not what's listed. #ParkCity
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It’s because there’s a bunch of subpar product, the elite product is moving relatively fast
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This cabin will never be listed. No buyer to impress, so the money went where nobody will ever see it: framing, materials, what's behind the drywall. Spec houses get built for the photos. This one is built for the grandkids. Reel on IG @roderickbuilders #CustomHomes
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We build tight houses. Tight houses also hold radon in better. 50% of Summit County homes tested came back at or above the WHO mitigation threshold. Roughing a vent stack in at framing costs a few hundred. Retrofitting later, thousands. Build it in. #BuildingScience #ParkCity
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Every builder says the work speaks for itself. Problem: houses cannot talk. So we turned the camera on the people who walked through the Lumen House and let them do the talking. Design details. Craftsmanship. What stopped them cold. Full reel on IG @roderickbuilders #ParkCity
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Salt Lake City designs roofs for 30 lbs of snow per sq ft. Park City at 8,400 ft: 162. Same state code, over 5x the load. On a 3,000 sq ft roof that is 486,000 lbs your framing has to hold. 243 tons. Up here a roof is not a lid. It is a bridge. #ParkCity #MountainLiving
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The number on your builder's proposal is not what your custom home will cost you. Most people learn the difference one surprise at a time, after the lot is bought and the loan is closed.
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The takeaway: budget the project, not the house. The house is the part you can see. The project is the site, the soft costs, the timing, and the decisions you haven't made yet. A builder who is honest about that early is worth more than one with a lower number.
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Building in Utah and trying to see the whole number before you commit? Reply. I'll tell you what I'd look at first.
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22 Park City lots went under contract in August. Most in one month since Feb 2022. The cause was not rates. It was a golf fee. Promontory's deposit jumps from $300K to $500K tomorrow, and 19 of those 22 lots are inside its gates. 19 homes that do not exist yet. #ParkCity
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A chip bag puffs up on the drive up Parleys. A window sealed at sea level does the same thing at 7,000 ft. Roughly 1 PSI per 2,000 ft of climb: 1,000+ lbs pushing out on a 2x4 pane. Bowed glass, stressed seals. Ask what elevation your windows were built for. #BuildingScience
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It's mid-September. In Park City, that's a deadline. Miss the fall excavation window and frozen ground pushes your foundation to spring: 4 to 5 months lost before a wall goes up. The dirt doesn't care about your closing date. Dig now or dig in April. #ParkCity #CustomHomes
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The Lumen House looks effortless. It only looks that way. Every clean line was worked out in the dust before the walls closed up: framing, sequencing, a hundred on-site calls. See it finished today, 3:30-7, 6924 N Macallan Ln, Heber City. Before-and-after on Instagram. #ParkCity
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A Park City lot is not a blank canvas. Most people budget for the house and get surprised by the hill it sits on.
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The house is the easy part. Understand the site before you fall in love with the drawings, and the rest of the project gets a lot more honest.
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Building on a hillside lot in Park City and working through this? Reply.
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