General Contractor in Odessa, MO

On the acreage around Odessa the first build is often a shop or a detached garage, with the house or the barndominium to follow. We plan those buildings around how you actually use the property, where the driveway meets the road, how the doors open and where you will turn a truck or a trailer to get in and out. A door that lands in the wrong place on an acreage lot is a problem you live with for decades, so we get the layout right before the first post goes in the ground. We keep future use in mind too, because an acreage that works today still has to work after the household grows into it.

Detached garages show up on the new lots here because the homes are growing and the space a household needs grows with them. We build detached and attached garages planned around doors, driveway access and what the building will be used for down the road, whether that is storage, a workshop or a place to park equipment out of the weather. On a tighter new lot the planning matters more than it does on open ground, and we size the building to fit the lot instead of overwhelming it. Post frame is an option when a larger shop needs a wide clear span.

Barndominiums are a natural fit for the open ground opening up around Odessa. A barndominium is a shop or barn frame finished as a home, and on acreage without city sewer it usually needs dirt work, drainage and a septic system as part of the same job. We are licensed in Missouri for septic installation, so the same contractor who builds the shell also designs and installs the septic, instead of you lining up a builder, a septic contractor and a drainage crew and hoping their schedules happen to line up. Talk to us about the scope you want and we will lay out plainly what the build covers.

Because so much of the ground here is outside city sewer, the septic system belongs on the same job, not as an afterthought. We start with a site and soil evaluation, design the system to suit the soil on your ground, and install the tank and drain field. The septic permit goes through your local county health department or the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, depending on the county, and we handle that permitting for you. When the building and the septic come from one contractor, the tank gets sited to fit the building site and the drain field gets placed where it will actually work, instead of two contractors guessing at each other's plans.

Drainage belongs on the same job too. New acreage around Odessa can hold water in ways an in town lot does not, and a wet site is a problem for a slab, a shop floor or a septic drain field alike. We plan the drainage and grade the site before the build goes up so the water has somewhere to go from day one, instead of finding out where it pools after the first hard rain. Getting the drainage right up front is what keeps a new shop from settling crooked or a drain field from backing up after a wet spring, and it is the kind of work that costs less to do once than to redo.

Missouri law requires a utility locate through Missouri 811 before any excavation on your property, and on an acreage build that covers everything from the septic trench to the post holes. We build the locate into the schedule and run the project start to finish with one point of contact, so you are not tracking down trades on your own or coordinating three different crews on three different timetables.