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Panelized Home Kits kind of split the difference between a stick-built home, a house kit, and a modular home.<\/p>\n

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Materials List from Free American Farmhouse Plans<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you build a standard, stick-built home, your house plan will probably come with a materials list; a comprehensive inventory of what you will need to build the house. It will include things like lumber, windows and doors, cabinets, and siding. It helps to estimate how much it will cost to build the house. Many houses use some pre-constructed parts, like roof trusses.<\/p>\n

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EcoHouseMart House Kit<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A house kit includes the same materials, more or less. Some kits come very complete, with everything you need to build the house. Other kits only have some of the parts. You will source the rest locally. Log cabin kits often only include the logs, nothing else.<\/p>\n

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Modular home walls are assembled, then lifted into place inside a factory warehouse
Photo from Riverview Homes Inc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A modular home is built in a climate-controlled warehouse. It is delivered pretty much finished. It may or may not include some things like heat or cooling and anything you need to connect the house to services like power, water and sewer.<\/p>\n

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Your Panelized Home Kit is delivered to your building site
Landmark Home and Land Company
Delivery is included in the kit price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A panelized home kit has everything you need to build a house, like other home kits, but the house is already partially built.<\/p>\n

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Wall Panel sections are built in a factory
Landmark Home and Land Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Floor, exterior and interior wall and roof panels are built in a huge factory, out of the weather, like a modular home. The parts are delivered to your building site, then assembled to finish the house. Construction takes a lot less time that way.<\/p>\n

Panelized Homes: What Are Panelized Home Kits And How Are They Built?
\n<\/strong>Melissa Brock for Rocket Mortgage<\/p>\n

Panelized kit homes, or panelized building systems, are built in climate-controlled indoor factories. Panelized homes are built in less time than stick-built homes and limit the home’s exposure to the elements before it\u2019s completely built.<\/p>\n

In these factories, wall sections, roof and floor systems join to create panels. These panels are put on a truck and delivered to the job site to become finished, just like a stick-built home.<\/p>\n

Panelized Homes: What Are Panelized Home Kits And How Are They Built?
\nby Melissa Brock for Rocket Mortgage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pacific Modern Homes delivers wall sections with the windows and sheathing, sometimes even the siding.
Pacific Modern Homes, Inc. (PMHI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Different companies offer different kinds of kits. Some have more of the house pre-constructed. Pacific Modern Homes delivers wall sections with the windows and sheathing, sometimes even the siding already put together.<\/p>\n

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Green Edge Homes Structurally Insulated Panel (SIP) Kits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some panelized kits use SIPs, Structural Insulated Panels. SIPs are a sandwich of rigid insulating foam between layers of some sort of OSB, oriented strand board (particle board). Kits have pre-made SIPS to put up as walls, floors and the roof. It is energy-efficient, strong and cost-effective.<\/p>\n

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Ready-Frame\u00ae precise pre-cut, labeled bundles equal fewer cuts and less waste, resulting in reduced disposal fees.
Redstone Engineered Home Systems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many panelized home kits are designed for owner builders with limited construction experience. Parts are labeled. The kits come with easy-to-follow drawings and instructions. Many companies have YouTube videos to walk you through potential snags.<\/p>\n

No matter what method you use to build, make sure you have prepared. It doesn’t help to have your house panels built in a climate-controlled warehouse, then have them dropped off where they sit in the mud for 6 months while you build a foundation.<\/p>\n

Photos in this post show kit houses from these Panel House Kit companies.<\/p>\n