Danville, Kentucky · Licensed · Insured · Bonded
Custom homes and barndominiums built by Ben Scott, from the first cut of the dirt to the walkthrough at the front door. One builder, one number, licensed, insured, and bonded, with 28 years in the building trades.
Building a house is a six-to-twelve-month relationship, and you should know exactly who you are in it with. At Scott Construction KY, that is Ben Scott and his crew, on your site, for the whole build.
Two kinds of new construction come through our door:
Both get the same standard: straight lines, tight joints, and structure sized for the load it carries. Ben came up through welding and ironwork before he ran a construction company, and that shows most in the bones of a new build.
Building a house means someone is in your life for most of a year. Here that is Ben, on your site, for the whole of it.
Slope, drainage, trees, the road and where the sun comes from all shape the plan. We walk the ground first and let it inform the house rather than fighting it later.
Site work, footers, foundation, framing, exterior and interior finish run under one contractor, with the licensed specialty trades coordinated rather than left to you.
The build follows Kentucky’s statewide building and residential code and is inspected at every stage, so the paperwork is right when you sell it twenty years from now.
A floor plan out of a catalog was drawn for an average family. Yours is not average, and a custom build is the chance to stop working around someone else’s assumptions.
So the first conversation with Ben is not about square footage. It is about how you live: who cooks and how, where the tools go, whether the laundry belongs near the bedrooms, what the view from the porch should be, and which room the family will actually live in.
The details that make a house genuinely yours are already on our everyday build list:
If you can describe it, Ben can price it, and you will know before the build starts whether it fits the budget.
A custom build is won or lost in the handoffs: excavation to foundation, foundation to framing, framing to finish. Every one of those gaps is a place where the plan can drift from what was priced.
Scott Construction closes those gaps by owning the whole job. Our crew does its own land clearing, grading, and excavation, pours its own footers and foundations, and frames, roofs, and finishes the house as one continuous piece of work. Light plumbing and light electrical are handled in-house, and the licensed specialty trades that rough in the full systems are coordinated by us, on our schedule.
Ben prices the job, runs the job, and answers for the job. One face, one number, 28 years in the trades.
The same house plan lands differently on different ground, which is why Ben prices a custom home standing on the lot, never from a desk.
A lot of Central Kentucky building happens on family land: a corner of the farm, an inherited lot, acreage bought for the view. We build across Danville, Boyle County, and the neighboring counties, including Mercer, Lincoln, Casey, and Jessamine.
Rural lots come with rural realities: a drive to cut in, ground to clear and grade, drainage to get right before anything else happens. Because our crew does its own excavation and concrete, those first steps happen on our schedule, to our standard, instead of waiting on a sub, and the answers come with prices attached rather than guesses.
That in-house dirt work runs deep: grading, land clearing, bush hogging, french drains where the ground holds water, and demolition when there is an old structure to take down before the new one goes up. The lot is genuinely ready before the first footer gets poured.
The walk of the land settles the questions that decide a build: where the house sits for sun, weather, and the view, how the drive comes in, where the water goes when Central Kentucky gets one of its real rains, and what the site work will actually take. You get those answers standing on your own ground.
Barndominiums in particular belong out here. They go up efficiently, they shrug off weather, and they give you shop, storage, and living space under one roof. If you are weighing a conventional home against a barndominium for your land, Ben will walk you through both, on the ground, with real numbers.
Kentucky maintains a mandatory statewide building code and residential code: no county gets to build to a lower standard. Every home we put up is permitted and inspected to that statewide code.
The permit itself is where a builder shows his cards. Kentucky has no statewide general contractor license, so Boyle County requires the contractor pulling your permit to hold a current county contractor’s license, renewed every year, and to show proof of at least $350,000 in general liability insurance plus workers’ compensation for everyone on the crew. Builds inside Danville city limits take a Danville business license on top of that.
Scott Construction carries all of it, and we handle the permits and inspections as part of the job. You never chase a piece of paper.
Ben came up through welding, ironwork, and rigging before he ran a construction company, and that background sets how his houses get built: structure first, finishes second, shortcuts never.
It shows in the bones. Straight walls, square corners, framing sized for the load it will actually carry, and a roof system finished by the same crew that framed it. The paint colors are easy to change later. The frame is not, so the frame is where the standard lives.
And when the build is done, the walkthrough is with Ben, punch list in hand. Done means you say it is done.
Central Kentucky has four real seasons, and a build calendar should respect them. Frozen ground and cold snaps slow foundations and concrete in the deep winter, while spring and summer give long, dry-enough windows for dirt work, framing, and roofing.
The practical move: plan in the fall and winter, break ground in the spring. Getting the design, price, and permit settled while the ground is hard means your build takes the whole warm season instead of losing the front half of it.
Whenever you start, the process is the same one we run on every job: you call Ben, we walk the land, we build it right, and we do the final walkthrough together.
Every job carries a one year workmanship warranty in writing, and the roof on your new home carries a five year manufacturer warranty on top of it. There are veteran, military, and senior discounts on materials, a single parent discount on materials, and a referral program for every finished job.
A custom home is also usually the start of a long relationship. The same company builds decks, additions, and barndominiums and pole barns, so the builder who knows your house best keeps being one call away.
The honest answer is a real number, not a range. Ben walks your land, listens to what you want to build, and comes back with a straight price for that home on that lot. On jobs up to $10,000 you do not pay anything until the work is complete.
Yes. We build across Danville, Boyle County, and the surrounding Central Kentucky counties, including Mercer, Lincoln, Casey, and Jessamine. Rural lots are normal territory for us, and our crew handles its own site prep, land clearing, and excavation.
Yes. Barndominiums and pole barns are a core part of what Scott Construction builds, from a working barn to a full barndominium home with finished living space. The same crew that frames our custom homes builds them.
Kentucky maintains a mandatory statewide building code and residential code, so every home we build is permitted, inspected, and built to that statewide standard. In Boyle County the permit also requires the contractor to show a current county contractor’s license, at least $350,000 in general liability insurance, and workers’ compensation coverage.
Ben Scott. The person who prices your home is the person on the site while it goes up, from the first walk of the lot to the final walkthrough. He has 28 years in the building trades and his number does not change hands mid-project.
Yes. Every job Scott Construction does carries a one year workmanship warranty in writing, and roofs carry a five year manufacturer warranty on top of it.
A straight answer costs nothing to ask for. Send the details or call, either way you talk to Ben.
