Those are working days with a crew on site, not calendar time from contract to completion.
Typical framing durations
| Project | Crew days | Calendar, weather allowed |
|---|---|---|
| House, 1 story, 2,000 SF | 10 to 15 | 2 to 3 weeks |
| House, 2 story, 2,500 SF | 15 to 20 | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Addition, 400 SF | 5 to 10 | 1 to 2 weeks |
| Garage, 2 car detached | 3 to 5 | About 1 week |
| Basement framing, 200 LF | 1 to 2 | 1 to 3 days |
| Wall removal with beam | 1 to 3 | Within a week |
A 200 linear foot basement of perimeter and partition walls is realistically one day: 200 linear feet of wall, three framers, one ten hour day.
What makes framing take longer
Roof complexity. The biggest factor by a distance. A simple gable roof goes on fast. Hips, valleys, dormers and multiple ridge heights can add a week to an otherwise ordinary house. Two houses of identical square footage can differ by 40 percent in framing time because of the roof alone.
Weather. Michigan. Rain stops sheathing and makes decks unsafe. Wind stops wall raising and truss setting outright, and that is a safety decision, not a preference. Winter shortens the usable day at both ends.
Material arriving wrong or late. The most common cause of a stalled frame, and it is a procurement problem, not a crew problem. A short order on trusses can idle a crew for days. On labor-only jobs this sits with the builder, which is why Mavericks sends the list of what to order.
Site access. If a delivery truck and a telehandler can reach the building, everything moves. A tight lot or a long carry adds hours to every single delivery.
Engineered members. LVL and steel beams and columns need planning, equipment and sometimes a second crew. A steel beam is its own day.
Plan revisions mid-build. A change after walls are up is not an edit, it is demolition and rebuild.
Inspection timing. The framing inspection is scheduled by the contractor of record. How fast the municipality shows up is outside anyone's control on site.
What does not make it faster
Adding people past a point. Framing has a critical path. Walls go up before the roof. Six people on a job sized for three mostly get in each other's way.
Skipping the layout. Time spent on accurate layout is recovered several times over. A frame that is out of square costs every trade behind it.
Pushing through bad weather. Wet lumber, unsafe decks and tired crews produce work that gets fixed later.
How Mavericks schedules
Start dates are committed in writing. Not "sometime in October."
Mavericks runs a crew of framers plus a second crew available for additional projects, so a schedule commitment does not depend on one job finishing exactly on time.
If something is going to move, you hear it from us first. The worst version of a delay is the one the builder discovers by driving out to an empty site.