The Construction Technology class at DeKalb County High School has completed its newest house on the DCHS campus.
At Thursday’s meeting of the school board, Career and Technical Education Director Brad Leach told members that the home is complete and ready to be sold.
The board voted to advertise the home for sale at 10 percent above the cost involved to build the structure.
This is the first year that construction has been attempted on the high school campus, and it has turned out to be a great success.
The construction technologies students have built homes for many years, but they had previously undertaken projects at off-campus sites, meaning the entire class, as well as their equipment, had to be transported to and from the location by bus.
The decision was made this year to construct the project on school grounds,  and now that it is complete, the house will be sold.
Under the conditions of the sale, the new owner will be responsible for the cost and liability of removing the structure from the school campus.
Leach told the board that the house is a complete structure, but that finish work will need to be done by the new owner.
“It’s roughed-in on the inside,” Leach said, “There's no sheet rock inside. It’s roughed-in for plumbing. There's no siding on the outside. It does have the windows and doors in it and the roof is covered. It's a shingled roof.
He went on to explain that the reason for the unfinished condition is that the house must be moved to a permanent location before finish work is completed.
“Its just a basic house,” he explained. “The reason it's a basic house is because when you go to move that and you've done a lot of interior work, you could have some problems inside, so it’s just a basic shell. I would call it a dried-in house with the rough-ins done.”
Work on the 1,456 square-foot structure began in August.
The house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
When the structure is sold, the money will go back into the construction technologies account to begin work on another house.
A total of $14,964 has gone into the building of the house, and Leach recommended that the contract specify that the buyer be responsible for the cost and the liability of moving the structure from school grounds.
He also recommend a time limit of 60 days for the house to be removed from school property.