The phrase 'building everything from scratch' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a variety of contexts. For example, "We decided to start our own business from the ground up, building everything from scratch."
So we were coming through stone cold nothing, and no one realizes that we were building everything from scratch, from scratch.
For Petek Saracoglu '09, flight sciences engineer at Zunum and one of their first employees, designing the first hybrid-electric plane means building everything from scratch.
"But being in the agency business and starting a business at age twenty-six and building everything from scratch, I was as tough as I felt I needed to be, and probably tougher than I should have been".
I was building everything from scratch – the business, my home – and so I was constantly going to markets to buy things second-hand and storing them in my parents' house until I could move them in here.
"Instead of building everything from scratch and hiring teams of developers, we wanted to buy something that's ready to go," said Gregg Berman, a senior adviser to the SEC's trading and markets division and a Princeton-trained nuclear physicist.
"You try to say, 'OK, if the customer is very frugal, how can I bring them more value in ways that makes it affordable to them?'" He added: "Rather than reinventing the wheel and building everything from scratch again and again, you try to leverage what you already have".
"You have people building everything themselves, scratch building parts from common household items.
"Since they can invest and stay invested over a long term, they're building pretty much everything from scratch.
Just a few years ago, building a software entailed starting everything from scratch.
It's not rebuilding my place in society — it's building it from scratch, constructing absolutely everything".
