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HomeWrights Custom Homes

Name: HomeWrights Custom Homes
Address: 4800 Happy Canyon Road, Denver, CO, 80237, US
Telephone: +13037568870

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Both Amazing and Affordable! Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Pueblo

For over 20 years, we've been helping hundreds of Front Range families their build dream homes. We are the ONLY Front Range builder to offer both a Turnkey custom builder approach (every detail professionally managed by our staff) AND, an Owner-Builder approach (you manage the project with guidance and resources provided by our staff). Visit with us soon to learn more. No obligation, no pressure, just pick up the phone and get your questions answered!

11/02/2026

Moving from a warm-weather state? Here’s what tends to surprise folks 😳

💧 Wells that go 800 feet deep (not 30!)�
💰 Water tap fees close to $25,000�
🧱 Foundations that have to be protected from frost�
🏠 More insulation than you’re used to, and that shows up in the budget too

Bob said it best: “They get it right away when we explain, but they still don’t like it.” 😅
No surprises is the goal, so we plan for every one of these up front.

Read more in the Articles section of the HomeWrights website 👉

10/29/2026

🎉 “First, CONGRATULATIONS on owning the land.”

That’s how Bob Hinz opens almost every call from someone in Dallas, Phoenix or San Diego who owns a piece of Colorado and wants to build on it.

The big question is always the same: can I really build a custom home here while I’m a flight away? Bob’s answer is yes, and he has some strong opinions on how to do it right. ✈️🏔️

This month’s article walks through all of it. Find it in the Articles section of our website 💻

10/26/2026

🚜 Demolition Day Is Nothing Like You're Picturing

Everyone imagines a wrecking ball and a cloud of dust. Bob Hinz says the reputation is worse than the reality.

"Good operators can use a 40 ton excavator to practically take a house apart brick by brick, board by board or chunk by chunk, so that every bit of debris lands exactly where they want it to. It's definitely not a crash and mash activity. More like watching an archeologist working on a priceless discovery."

Here's the actual timeline:

🗓️ 4 to 6 weeks for testing, abatement if needed, utility disconnects and permitting
⚡ 2 to 3 days for the demolition itself
💦 Most contractors lease a hydrant hookup and hose the site down as they go

"The house is there one day, then gone the next."

📸 Bob's pro tip: do a before and after photo album, and videotape as much as you can through demo, excavation, foundation and backfill.

🔗 What really happens between closing and a clear lot: https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

10/23/2026

🌳 The First Thing Bob Looks At on a Teardown Lot

Ask him and the answer comes fast. "Always trees. We're going to do whatever possible to keep useful, healthy trees."

Then the rest of the walk:

🧱 Retaining walls, sidewalks, alleys and site access
🔌 Where the gas, electricity, sewer and water come in
🏠 Imagining the new house on the lot, which Bob calls the fun part

"We know the territory pretty well, so if someone gives us an address, we can usually create a mental picture of the neighborhood, and we know the age of the housing we're dealing with."

Every so often the lot has a surprise. "We've actually had two different projects over the years where we discovered a rusted old fuel oil tank on the property. Hard to spot, but now we know what to look for."

Got a property and no idea where to start? That's exactly the call we like to get.

🔗 https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

10/20/2026

📐 Don't Assume You Can Rebuild What Was There

This is where teardown buyers get caught off guard.

"It's a mistake to assume that a new house can duplicate an old one," says Bob Hinz. "In Denver it might have been okay to build a duplex in a certain neighborhood in 1955, but the new zoning rules Denver adopted in 2010 might make that impossible today."

The existing house never had to meet today's rules. Your new one does.

📏 Setbacks
📊 Lot coverage
📈 Height limits
📜 Covenants and HOA rules
🏛️ Historic districts in Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs that trigger extra review, and can sometimes protect a house from demolition entirely

"Our goal is to keep buyers from finding out too late. That's not hard to do."

🔗 What to check before you buy: https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

10/16/2026

⏱️ The Teardown Mistake That Costs Thousands

It isn't demolition. It's timing.

Bob Hinz on what perfect looks like:

🔨 Demolish on Monday
📋 Pick up the building permit on Tuesday
✍️ Close the construction loan Wednesday morning
🚜 Excavate Wednesday afternoon

"Remember, the clock starts ticking on construction loan interest the minute you've signed the papers. So if you're waiting to start building for several months, you've just cost yourself several thousand dollars."

Think of it as two separate transactions. Buying the land is a conventional purchase. Construction financing should kick in right about the time you're ready to excavate, not months earlier while design, engineering, soil testing, surveying and permitting are still running.

🔗 How to sequence it: https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

10/11/2026

💵 What a Colorado Teardown Actually Costs

No guessing. Here are the real numbers from Bob Hinz.

🧪 Testing, abatement, utility disconnects, full demolition and leveling the lot: about $25,000 to $30,000
🏗️ New foundation: $40,000 to $60,000 or more
💧 Water and sewer tap credits in Denver and some other municipalities: about $7,000 to $10,000 back in your pocket

Cost comes down to size and weight. Literally weight. The contractor estimates the tonnage hauled away, which is why big ranch homes with sprawling concrete foundations get expensive.

And the old foundation always comes out. "I've never seen a situation where the old foundation is re-usable." The new one buys you a fully habitable basement. As Bob puts it, "on balance, that's cheap square footage."

🔗 Full cost breakdown: https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

10/07/2026

🏚️ "Everything Can Be Fixed. But at What Cost?"

That question from Bob Hinz is the one that decides most Colorado teardowns.

Very little raw land is left in the Front Range neighborhoods people actually want to live in. What's left is older housing stock sitting on great lots with mature trees. Find your location and there's usually already a house on it.

🔍 Some of those old Denver houses are built like battleships. Beautiful details, amazing construction.
🪟 They also have horrible windows, no wall insulation, bad ventilation, and layouts nobody wants today.

So we price both options, scrape and rebuild versus restore, and let the numbers make the call instead of emotion. When a real gem turns up, Bob will push to save it.

🔗 Read the full teardown guide: https://homewrights.com/scrape-and-replace-a-colorado-teardown-guide/
📞 303-756-8870

09/11/2026

🏔️ Two Ways to Build. Both Open Book.

Most builders will only sell you one of them.

🔑 TURNKEY
We run the project, hire the subs, hold the schedule, and hand you the keys. Right call when your time is the scarce resource, not your money.

🧰 OWNER-BUILDER
You act as your own general contractor with our guidance, and you keep the markup that would have gone to someone else. Right call when you want to be in it.

✅ Same vetted subcontractors. Same suppliers. Same project managers. Same standards.

The only real question is how involved you want to be in your own build.

Building in Colorado since 2002. More than 500 custom homes. 🏡

🔗 HomeWrights Method: https://homewrights.com/homewrights-method/
🔗 HomeWrights Turnkey: https://homewrights.com/custom-homes/
📞 Not sure which fits? Call 303-756-8870

09/08/2026

🔨 You Don't Need a License. You Need a System.

That's the HomeWrights Method. You act as your own general contractor on your own home, and we hand you everything a GC would have used to run it:

🧰 Vetted A-Team subcontractors and preferred suppliers
📋 Real budgets, contracts, permits, timelines, inspections
💻 Full access to our construction management software
📱 A project manager who walks the job with you, on site, online, by phone, by text

So when a sub doesn't show, you're not piecing it together from a forum post at 11pm.

Never built anything? That describes most of our owner-builders.

What you keep is the GC markup, and control of every decision on your own house. 🏡

🔗 See how the Method works: https://homewrights.com/homewrights-method/
📞 Questions? Call 303-756-8870

Address

4800 Happy Canyon Road
Denver, CO
80237

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+13037568870

Website

http://www.homewrights.com/

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