At Stauffer & Sons Construction, when we build new homes, 90% of the time, we use a forced air heating system (i.e. a furnace). This guest post is by Toby Conquest, "The Furnace Guy," who is the HVAC contractor we use for a majority of the homes we build. We hope...
Introduction: About 75% of the homes we build use a well to supply their water. For this guest post, we’ve asked our well drilling contractor for information about how wells work, what their associated costs are, and how the process of drilling for water and...
This is a guest blog post by Roger Haywood from Accent Landscapes. His company was the landscape contractor on our 2014 Parade Home, which won the “Best Landscaping” award, and we’re happy to share some of his advice on how landscaping works here in...
[Note: Rich Feasel is a local expert on the topic of Title Insurance, so today we asked him to help de-mystify one of the complex topics in our industry: title insurance policies, why you need them, how they work, and more. We hope you find it helpful! -Stauffer &...
[Choosing the right flooring is one of the many kinds of detailed decisions that go into building a custom home. For that reason, we asked Reagan Echols of IQ Floors (a flooring supplier we work with often with great success) to answer some basic flooring questions....
[Note: this is a guest blog from Larry Gilland, the founder of LGA Studios, an architectural firm in Colorado Springs. We’ve collaborated with Larry’s team on many homes over the years, and today, we’ve shared with him some of the questions we...
[Sometimes, in the process of building a new home, or doing research for building a new home, our clients will hear the term “expansive soils” and wonder exactly what it means and how it might affect them. Soils that expand are common in Colorado, and...
We love building custom homes—it’s a unique and exciting construction project; probably the most rewarding that a homeowner will ever undertake. Many of our past clients have told us how amazing they find it to be able to wake up in a home they had built just...
[This is a guest blog post from Chuck Fowler, who has helped create and manage several of Colorado Springs’ most prestigious covenant-protected communities, such as Flying Horse, Pine Creek, Cedar Heights, and Parkside at Mountain Shadows. We’ve found,...
Over the past 27 years, I’ve been insuring houses, cars, buildings, boats, motorcycles, and much more for families in Colorado Springs. In that time, I’ve met lots of people, seen and heard all kinds of stories, paid all kinds of claims, and have tried to...