Creator breaks down home building costs from @buildwithbert

The creator, Bert, provides a detailed, itemized cost breakdown of building his own house. He walks through each category of expense, from permits and foundation to framing, utilities, and interior finishes, displaying the specific cost for each item with a text overlay. He concludes by revealing the total cost, calculating how much he saved by doing most of the labor himself, and comparing it to the estimated cost of hiring a general contractor.

Creator: @buildwithbert on TikTok

Video format

Prop Yap

Video outline

  1. State high-value promise
  2. Systematically list components
  3. Reveal the grand total
  4. Reveal the value/savings

Narrative framework

The Cost & Savings Reveal

Narrative framework logic

To systematically break down the total cost of a complex project by itemizing each component, then revealing the grand total and calculating the value/savings generated by a specific method (e.g., DIY).

Topics: Construction, DIY, Home Improvement, Personal Finance

Concepts: Breakdown, Value Vlog

Formats: Prop Yap

Elements: Text Overlay, B-Roll Cutaway, Jump Cut

Account types: Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

This is how much I best building my own house. My name is Bert and I'm gonna build my house. Alright. I finally got around to making this video. I broke everything down into categories. I rounded everything up just to the nearest 100. This makes it easier. Not so many numbers on the page for me to read. No, I'm just gonna go over how much this house actually worst me to build and then I'll go over how much I saved by doing the majority of the work by myself. The things I hired out, I either didn't wanna do, didn't wanna learn how to do it, or didn't have the licensing for to build the house itself. So, building permits, about a thousand bucks. Dirt worse, that was 6,600. No, I did all the under slab rough ins for plumbing. That was, like, $1,200. The slab itself was $25,100 and I am very happy with slab. They did a phenomenal job. Septic, that was 12,400. My well was 11,200. Framing materials including all the lumber, my windows, doors, interior trim, and interior doors was 51,000 or 151,000. My roof was 4,800. Electrical was 6,200 plus 1,500 for the service. That's just 6,200 is for the material. I didn't do the electric. Wade's Electric did that and huge thanks to them. Plumbing,

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