BROADCASTS.com

b'
\\nShow Notes:
\\nCommon questions answered.   What is a panelized home and how does it compare to stick built, modular, prefab and prefabricated homes? Customization capabilities of Landmark\\u2019s panelized homes and what is included.  Selecting a foundation type and assembling your panelized home kit.  How do I know windows will fit?
\\nTranscript:
\\nInterviewer: Hi everyone. Welcome back for another episode of Landmark Home and Land Company\\u2019s Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building show. With me today as he is for every episode, wouldn\\u2019t be much of a program without him, the President and Founder of the Landmark Home and Land Company Steve Tuma. Steve, how are you?
\\nSteve Landmark: I\\u2019m doing great. It\\u2019s a nice day today and we\\u2019re working away. What do we have? A second round of questions, common questions.
\\nInterviewer: I hope you don\\u2019t mind but this is \\u2013 I just set this up to be sort of a part two of a conversation we had earlier where I\\u2019ve pulled some common questions from people that have written into Landmark regarding the process of panelized home building. So if you\\u2019re good with that, I\\u2019ve got a few more questions for you to tackle, if that\\u2019s OK.
\\nSteve Landmark: Yeah, let me know what they are and we will get some good answers, because I know there\\u2019s a lot of questions out there. People just don\\u2019t understand. They have a perspective of how to build \\u2013 maybe they built 20 years ago. Maybe their friend built. Maybe they watched a TV show. Maybe they watched someone build a house in their neighborhood but it\\u2019s always kind of like how does this boil down to \\u2013 how does this affect me?
\\nInterviewer: Right. Well, I could send these to you in advance but that takes all the fun out of it for me. So let\\u2019s just \\u2013
\\nSteve Landmark: Yeah, thanks for putting me on the spot.
\\nInterviewer: So here\\u2019s some of the more basic simple questions, but these are the things I think people want to know right off the bat. So to start off with, this lady wants to know, \\u201cWhat does panelized actually mean?\\u201d I guess what she\\u2019s asking is, \\u201cWhat is a panelized home?\\u201d
\\nSteve Landmark: Well, panelized home is \\u2013 it\\u2019s kind of interesting. It has been around for a little while. We\\u2019ve been doing it decades, helping people build their house and it\\u2019s basically a more efficient method of building a stick-built home. So for simplification processes, if you had a 40-foot wall in a house, we may make that into five eight-foot sections.
\\nSo we would put all the studs there, the bottom and top plates on, the exterior sheathing and the rough openings for the windows and doors. You would then assemble the home package and put wall one up. Next, put wall two. Next, put wall three and go around the house and install all the walls and then the roof trusses on top of it.
\\nNow of course previously, if it\\u2019s on a slab, we put it on a cement foundation or a floor system if you had a crawl space basement or a pure type of system. So the panelization is basically panelizing.
\\nNow a lot of people say, \\u201cOh, wow, that\\u2019s different. My builder doesn\\u2019t understand that.\\u201d Well, it\\u2019s pretty much the same process of stick building. We just do it in a more efficient method in a controlled environment inside of a production facility.
\\nSo a stick builder may take a bundle of two-by-sixes, cut them a size, make a wall, put it up. It takes longer. There are mistakes. You\\u2019re affected by weather and sometimes it\\u2019s just harder to build on a construction site than in a controlled area.
\\nSo where panelized home systems like ours, the one that Landmark has, is just a more efficient method of stick building. So it\\u2019s not affected by the restrictions of modulars, prefabs and all these other words. Now let me jump into something else because this is the part where people that are just learning about different building things, they will say, \\u201cWell, that\\u2019s prefab.\\u201d Well, prefab is extremely generic.'