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\\nShow Notes:
\\nMore 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?
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\\nInterviewer: 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?
\\nSteve Landmark: It\\u2019s exciting. There\\u2019s 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\\u2019s kind of neat.
\\nInterviewer: And that\\u2019s truly worldwide.
\\nSteve Landmark: Yeah.
\\nInterviewer: Which is great. So we\\u2019ve been doing this thing which I think has been very successful the last few episodes. I\\u2019ve been reading letters to Landmark from customers and potential customers. Steve, if you\\u2019re up for that, why don\\u2019t we continue that again for this episode?
\\nSteve Landmark: Yeah, let\\u2019s do it.
\\nInterviewer: OK.
\\nSteve Landmark: Let\\u2019s see what you have, see if we can stump them.
\\nInterviewer: So this first question is \\u2013 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?
\\nSteve Landmark: I want to say 2500 or so in the website now.
\\nInterviewer: Wow, that\\u2019s amazing. So if I pick one of your plans, can I pick my own windows and doors? I think that\\u2019s a great question. So as far as windows and doors, which is one of those little things that people just \\u2013 they have a taste for and they want \\u2013 they\\u2019re envisioning certain windows and a certain front door, certain doors going from bedrooms and things like that.
\\nSo picking one of the Landmark designs, are people able to design or pick their own windows and doors?
\\nSteve Landmark: Yes, they are and that\\u2019s one of the key elements because those are \\u2013 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\\u2019s also energy efficiency reasons for it.
\\nSo 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 \\u2013 like on doors. You can have a single door or double doors, sliding doors, French doors and as you brought up, it\\u2019s 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\\u2019s a very important decorating part but also the energy efficiency component of it.
\\nInterviewer: Yeah. Most people don\\u2019t think about that. I mean the aesthetic is what\\u2019s important. But to have things functional and to be able to help you keep your \\u2013 keep the cost down of just your heating and cooling is important.
\\nSteve Landmark: Right. That ties into energy calculations, if you need them, if you\\u2019re going to have them for your home. You need to make sure that they\\u2019re windows of a certain standard. Then there\\u2019s also other situations with tempered glass where you ...'