Building Your Own Home – Where can you find the cost of materials and tools?

In the past, one of the very frustrating problems about doing the online research into building your own home in Costa Rica was the lack of up to date information about the costs involved…

You could search for different key words online and find out that a specific building material was available but rarely would the site give you the prices and, when you emailed – if you understand Spanish – nobody would email you back.

Unfortunately in Costa Rica, people do not tend to return telephone calls or answer emails, you just have to keep on calling … But now we have a few Spanish hardware websites like www.LaFerreteriaDigital.com started up and you can now find 10,000 different products listed with prices in Costa Rica colones and also in US dollars.

The www.LaFerreteriaDigital.com site was developed by Grupo Progreso, a leader in construction and building materials in Central America. The site is broken down into the following categories so if you understand these, you should be able to find your way around easily enough:

1. Construcción
2. Detalles y acabados
3. Eléctrico e iluminación
4. Herramientas
5. Hogar y jardinería
6. Industria
7. Lám. metal varias
8. Madera y lám. decorativas
9. Pastas y pegamentos
10. Pinturas
11. Pisos, paredes y cielos
12. Productos p/autos
13. Techos
14. Tubos y perfiles
15. Varillas, alambres y mallas
16. Vigas, angulares y platinas

You might also like ConstruCR.com which breaks down their site into the following categories:

1. Albañileria
2. Jardineria
3. Cerrajeria
4. Electricos
5. Griferia
6. Herramienta Electrica
7. Herramienta Manual
8. Herramienta para Aire
9. Adhesivos y Lubricantes
10. Agregados, Construccion
11. Accesorios para Pintar
12. Accesorios en General
13. Repuestos por Tipo

There are also a lot of photographs of these different items to help you however, if you do not understand Spanish you will want your dictionary by your side to look up some of the words.

Hey! You have to begin your Spanish language studies somewhere right?

And even if you never actually buy anything from this company, their website will give you a general idea of the costs of many kinds of construction materials and tools in Costa Rica.

You can also register at www.LaFerreteriaDigital.com here, create lists of the products that you plan on buying, you can share those lists with others and buy them even though you may be in the USA and the company will deliver them to you in Costa Rica…

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Written by Scott Oliver, author of 1. Costa Rica Real Estate Scams & How To Avoid Them, 2. How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa, and 3. Costa Rica’s Guide To Making Money Offshore.

Andrew Makarik

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Andrew Makarik is the main editor of WeLoveCostaRica, a fan of this sunny country. He is also a loving husband and a has a lovely daughter. By being a devoted family man and the biggest Costa Rica fan, he wants to make more people feel at home there. WeLoveCostaRica unites people and helps them find new home or a new travel destination. This website is a friendly community where everyone can find not only information, but also new friends and travel pals. Andrew is also passionate about IT and programming, so he himself maintains a friendly atmosphere in this cozy environment of WeLoveCostaRica.com.