General Contractor in Driftwood, TX

Permits and jurisdiction in Driftwood

Driftwood is unincorporated. There is no city permit office, so building permits and on-site sewage facility approvals go through Hays County. The county runs on its own timeline and its own submittal requirements, and it is a different process from permitting inside a city.

Building stock in Driftwood

Driftwood is multi-acre tracts. Custom homes, guest houses, shops and barndominiums, nearly all of it on septic and a good portion on a private well. The houses are generally newer and better built than central Austin stock, so the work is additive rather than corrective.

Distance is a real cost factor out here. Material deliveries, trade drive time and utility runs all cost more than they do in town, and a contractor who prices a Driftwood job like an Austin job either eats the difference or finds it in a change order later. We price it in at bid.

Water and power are the two items that most often set the schedule. Where a build needs a new well, a septic system, or a long electrical service run, those lead times decide the start date more than anything happening on the pad.

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