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• Importance Of House Maintenance 11/05/2019

    2019/05/11    What I feel 自分が感じたこと

  Hi there,   Maintenance is critically important if you want your home to have long life and keep its property value. (Please refer to the previous post describing the importance to have a long life home) For Example, Houryu Ji temple, which was built in Nara, Japan around 1400 years ago and is the oldest timber building in the world, is still standing in good condition because of regular high levels of maintenance. (Houryu Ji) We always try to establish a long term relationship with our clients, whom we have built homes for, after construction because good home maintenance can only be done in good collaboration between the home owners and builders like us . Japan Homes After Construction Services For quality assurance we normally […]

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• Landscape Ideas 05/05/2019

    2019/05/05    What I feel 自分が感じたこと

  Hi all,   Thanks for your time. Landscape design is one of the most important parts of new home build but sometimes it is hard for owners to decide the design because what landscape elements they can choose and their costs are often not very clear to them. So Japan Homes developed our summary of these elements including Japanese Garden options as below. Japan Homes Landscape Ideas Here are some examples: Fence Japanese Garden   Other Now our clients can just pick up what you prefer from these lists and we can provide Landscape Plan suitable for their new home. Simple and easy process. Landscape Plan Format of our Landscape Plan varies as per each individual project.   Note: prices are only estimated costs in […]

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• Business is similar to Team Sports 27/04/2019

    2019/04/27    What I feel 自分が感じたこと

  Hi Everyone,   I guess that people who have good results in team sports also can get good results in business. In a business management perspective view, team sports is so similar that a director lets players with various talents and characters concentrate on one outcome. There is a saying from Katsuya Nomura, the Japanese legend professional beaseball head coach, that “There is a win without any reasons but there is no defeat without any reasons” There is always a reason that you have lost in business world too so If you are not aware of it and do not train yourself you will not be a successful business person.   (Katsuya Nomura) Also, when comparing sports and work, Most people do not understand the […]

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• Simple Design Is Important For Long Life Homes 22/04/2019

    2019/04/22    New Home 新築

  Simple design is the key to a long life building. I am going to discuss the five advantages of the simple design. ①Less Chances of Waterleaking As building envelop design becomes more complicated, the risk of failure in weathertightness increases so simple home design provide less chances of waterleaking. For example, E2 Risk Matrix, which is a table provided by MINISTRY OF BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND EMPLOYMENT and allows the calculation of a risk score for weathertightness failure by the allocation and summing of scores for a range of design and location factors applying to a specific building design, states that complicated design has much higher risk score than simple design. The simple design in Figure 1 has only the total risk score of 2 while […]

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• Japan Homes’ Standard Terrace House Plans 13/04/2019

    2019/04/13    New Home 新築

  Hi there, We have created two types of terrace house standard plans and below are the description of these plans 70m2 Terrace House Plan Outline of Each Unit Double Storey Unit Building Foot Print: 39m2 (9.7m x 4m) Total Floor Area: 70m2 2 Beds, 1 Living, Dinning and Kitchen, 1 Study, 1 Bath and 1 Toilet Highly Functional Plan for a small family Spacious open plan at Ground Floor despite limited space (Sample 3 unit plans) 90m2 Terrace House Plan Outline of Each Unit Double Storey Unit Building Foot Print: 48m2 (9m x 5.3m) Total Floor Area: 90m2 2 Beds (1 Ensuite Bed), 1 Living, Dinning and Kitchen, 2 Baths and 1 Toilet Highly Functional Plan for a small family Spacious open plan at Ground […]

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• Your House Is The Most Important Resource For Your Family 07/04/2019

    2019/04/07    Finance ファイナンス, NZ Property NZの不動産

  HI All, I am going to discuss below why long lifetime homes are financially important for you and your family. Four Reasons You Should Have Long LIfetime Home ①If your home lasts longer, you don’t have to pay just to re-build it so save a lot of money. For example, if a house only lasts 50 years it needs to be re-built every 50 years. However, if it can last for 100 years, the cost will be half if you consider long time span. This means that you and your family can save greater amount of money with a longer lifetime of building.   ②Also you can rent it out to gain stable income for a longer time period. This may become more important after […]

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• Your Peace Of Mind Is Most Important 30/03/2019

    2019/03/30    What I feel 自分が感じたこと

  Hi All, I have summarised here common causes of people’s stress during their new construction project: Delay In Schedule Unexpected Extra Costs Not Smooth Communication with Contractors & Consultants No After Sales Services Designer and/or Consultant’s Inefficacy in Planning, Problem Solving and Project Management In some cases it seems to me that people pay a lot of money for a highly stress project due to these hassles. First Priority Is Your Peace Of Mind If you decide on a high-priced project, first of all, I think it is good to consider the priority of your peace of mind. Many people pursue the cheapest option for their new home build but this often causes lots of stress on you so just be careful. For example, some people […]

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• Electric Plans 24/03/2019

    2019/03/24    Interior Design インテリアデザイン

  Hi Everyone, For each construction project we provide Electric Plans to share the same info between Japan Homes, SUBs and Owner. Japan Homes Electric Plans Here are the examples of Elec Plans. We provide these types of plans for our clients as well as for our electrician to check electrical fixture positions before actual site work begins. These plans help us make sure that all fixtures are at adequate and owner-preferred positions. Electrical Selections At the same time our clients are also asked to decide what electrical items they want. They can check our selections of elec items on Buildertrend, an online project management software, and decide their choices. All info are in Buildetrend so it is easy for our clients to check and decide […]

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• Consider Cost and Time at Resource Consent Stage 17/03/2019

    2019/03/17    Council Consent 役所の許認可, New Home 新築, The Way We Work 仕事のこだわり

  Hi All, The recent trend is that there are many customers who are thinking to subdivide their own land and build new residential buildings. It is necessary to acquire a resource consent (= RC) in order to do land subdivision. Things Commonly Happen At RC Stage Many companies do not spend much time, energy or money on preparing good plans for RC application. Therefore, at the time of a building consent design (= BC) which is the post process of RC, It takes time for them to correct errors and develop details that should have been considered at the RC stage. Common errors found in the BC stage often relates to Height In Relation To Boundary, too much construction costs, room layouts and access to […]

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• Japan Day 10/03/2019

    2019/03/10    Event イベント

  Hi Everyone, As we did for the previous years Japan Homes has joined Japan Day this year and very much enjoyed talking to visitors to our booth.   Japan Day 2019 Japan Day 2019 happened at Eden Park in Auckland with a great amount of visitors and many exciting events went on. Our booth also welcomed a number of visitors and discussed their future new home projects. For this year most of the enquiries were about subdivision + new homes which I think reflects the housing trend that the city demands many more new homes to deal with increased population. Because we are the Japanese we are good at designing and building functional & cost-effective medium to small residential units on limited sized sections so […]

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