Show Notes:

More of the best questions answered!    Windows and rough openings for a panelized home.  Delivery and details of individual wall panels and roof trusses.  Assembly of your new panelized home package.  Limited building seasons and how panelized home kits can help you.  Is a panelized home like a stick built home?

Transcript:

Interviewer: Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as always is the President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes where they want, exactly as they want, across the nation and worldwide since 1993 and that man is Steve Tuma. Steve, how are things in the world of panelized home building?

Steve Landmark: It’s exciting. There’s a lot of things happening, a lot of people building in different areas of the country and under different conditions. You know, hillsides, lakefront and deserts and mountains. It’s kind of neat.

Interviewer: And that’s truly worldwide.

Steve Landmark: Yeah.

Interviewer: Which is great. So we’ve been doing this thing which I think has been very successful the last few episodes. I’ve been reading letters to Landmark from customers and potential customers. Steve, if you’re up for that, why don’t we continue that again for this episode?

Steve Landmark: Yeah, let’s do it.

Interviewer: OK.

Steve Landmark: Let’s see what you have, see if we can stump them.

Interviewer: So this first question is – it goes back to something we talked about on the last episode, about picking a design and plans from your company Landmark and they seem all the plans available from Landmark. And there are how many?

Steve Landmark: I want to say 2500 or so in the website now.

Interviewer: Wow, that’s amazing. So if I pick one of your plans, can I pick my own windows and doors? I think that’s a great question. So as far as windows and doors, which is one of those little things that people just – they have a taste for and they want – they’re envisioning certain windows and a certain front door, certain doors going from bedrooms and things like that.

So picking one of the Landmark designs, are people able to design or pick their own windows and doors?

Steve Landmark: Yes, they are and that’s one of the key elements because those are – they do a couple of things. They keep the weather in and out of the house, but they also give a certain look, a certain style. But there’s also energy efficiency reasons for it.

So there are different types of windows, wood windows, vinyl windows, aluminum windows, clad windows, and they have different looks, different features, double-hung, single-hung, casement picture windows, whatever it may be. People are able to go through and then decorate the home they want. Some people like the simplicity of a white vinyl. Other people want to have a walnut inside with a brushed antique brass inside hardware. So that allows people to go through and decorate the way it is. Then it also allows them – like on doors. You can have a single door or double doors, sliding doors, French doors and as you brought up, it’s also on the inside. What kind of doors do you want? Do you want solid wood doors? Do you want the hollow core? What type of a feel? That’s a very important decorating part but also the energy efficiency component of it.

Interviewer: Yeah. Most people don’t think about that. I mean the aesthetic is what’s important. But to have things functional and to be able to help you keep your – keep the cost down of just your heating and cooling is important.

Steve Landmark: Right. That ties into energy calculations, if you need them, if you’re going to have them for your home. You need to make sure that they’re windows of a certain standard. Then there’s also other situations with tempered glass where you end up in a scenario where – let’s ...