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DBA Vital Designs

Dear Folks……

1. To move into the next phase we require a $2,500 advance. This assures your position in the upcoming season. Our year is filling up. Please email us your:
   Full name, site and billing address, you APN (tax assessors parcel number), Email & phone numbers.
2. Snail mail is not an option. Furthermore, once we receive your info via email we will send a signed agreement to your email for your signatures. Scan or photo copy in an email back to us along with photo of your bank deposit receipt for the $2,500 deposit into any Wells Fargo bank Of deposit into the California Yurts Inc. checking account.
3. We then schedule a 2 hour plus facetime, zoom or phone call meeting to get the ball rolling and co-design a budget and configuration to meet your expectations. During this initial meeting and follow up emails we develop together a design that fits your particular conditions and budget. We discuss your design options and talk about your site. Permits, access, in-ground utilities (water, power, septic, gas, phone, etc.).
4. We then draft up a proposal with a floor plan and elevation and budget. This budget includes a detailed weekly estimate as well as a bid from our shop to build your components as well as an estimate for your installation at a time and material plus 20% basis. You sign this proposal. Then we are ready to proceed.
5. The signed proposal and floor plan then head off to Brian Manning (707) 744-1611 to complete the structural drawing and construction documents estimated starting at $7.00 per ft. pending on the scope. More for smaller projects per Sq.Ft. and ready to send to the engineer. For homes, this building plan is on an estimated basis. Commercial applications cost more. Print costs for blueprints, site visits, mailings, as well as sloped site Geo-Tech engineering, soils reports, if required, are charged as additional. Sq.Ft. estimate available after a $300 site Evaluation done by Brian to see the site and meet and greet.
6. Your completed plans then head off to our structural engineer who then runs calculations on wind and roof loads as well as earthquake and foundation engineering. Generally, this is on a bid basis. Smaller yurts cost $400 and the larger yurts up to $ 1,100 or $1.00 per square ft. can run from $700 to $2,500 for the larger homes and more for commercial projects. Hillside applications with retaining walls and drainage cost up to $20,000 and up for the engineering and special inspections during construction.
7. Your title 24 California Energy Calculations are then drawn up by Allen Witzell describing your insulation and heating and or air conditioning, window directional orientations with overhangs to match your climate zone requirements. He charges $ 400 per plan. Your Green energy plan and inspection forms are created for the client and the building department which is required under the new code. Your CDF fire plan, as well as your engineered sprinkler plan, is also a requirement before you can get your permit. Some sites require a Historical review, a coastal review and permit approval and C.C.and R’s on existing sub-divisions you may have bought into. Brian coordinates and facilitates all of this on contract with you on an hourly basis until completed. You, of course, can save costs by working with Brian and doing some of the legwork under his expert guidance.“Brian is the most capable, that is great to work within this field and comes highly recommended. We have never been denied a permit in the 30 years submitting our plans for approval in California.” - David Raitt Vital Designs
8. You then pay California Yurts a 60% deposit less your $2,500 advance to start our 6 weeks prefab of your components.
9. Four weeks later you pay your 40% balance and we schedule and load out and deliver your yurt.
10. The on-site work is billed weekly at a time and material basis plus 20% from our contractors. We require our crews to erect the structure on a foundation and thru roofing and structural framing inspection. You can after that point hire us weekly as long as needed.
11. For non-permit applications omit items # 4,5, and 6 from above. Yurts under 200 Square feet in most counties do not require permits. under 120 Sq.Ft which is our 13’there are no permits required throughout the State.