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I have designs for pre-fab houses where all rough carpentry comes pre-constructed - wall, ceilings, roof, floors - not including foundation.
It takes a team of three people 1-2 days to erect a 2000+ sf home and is very, very reasonably priced, both plans and construction materials. Perfect for smaller (less than 3000sf "standard" looking houses), ideal for Puna.
Can get them permitted here and stamped and can provide team to erect them. Owner-builders only.
Cuts rough-carpentry costs to about half on your average house.
Aloha,
Robbie
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Robbie , do you have some contact info and/or a web site?
David D
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Robbie:
I have done an analysis over the past year of "stick Built", "Pre-Fab", "Steel Frame Modular", etc and have been excited about the potential of each methodology for saving time and $'s. Each time once I was able to disclose ALL associated costs I became disenchanted.
Can you provide details like:
1. Where are the panels actually assembled?
2. If off island what are the shipping costs etc?
3. What are the structual load limitations?
4. What is the widest span using the proposed technology (steel, paralams, etc)?
5. From approved plans what is the lead time for having complete materials packages delivered to the site ready for construction?
6. Etc?
Thanking you in advance, Ironman
Will Peratino
Will Peratino
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Hi.
After the many responses, I'm building a website to answer the basic questions.
I'll have it ready for you all soon.
Aloha,
Robbie Lindauer
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Perfect for smaller (less than 3000sf "standard" looking houses), ideal for Puna.
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Less than 3,000 square feet is "smaller"? Yee gawds and little fishes, you'll be spending all your time cleaning a huge house like that! Not to mention the amount of "stuff" (and $$$ to pay for "stuff"
to fill it up with. What would you need a house bigger than 2,000 square feet for?
Now a garage with a workshop and a greenhouse in the yard, I could see the square footage going up to those sizes....
Oh, and since when is Puna "standard"? Heheheh!
A hui hou,
Cathy
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I was just saying "anything you'd normally see built in puna" - the standard Trojan/HPM packages. You -occasionally- get to the 3000sf level here. Usually above that square footage you end up very custom construction which is not what we're about. We're ideal for the 900-1300sf size but can scale easily up to two-stories and 3000-4000sf if necessary.
Okay, here's the long-awaited url.
Still working on getting floorplans and elevations onto the site, but soon enough:
http://www.dekesel.com/homes/
Aloha,
Robbie Lindauer
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fyi -
the contact form on the site was broken - I put it up in a big rush, it's fixed now, but I'm sorry if I missed some people.
Thanks for the great comments and responses.
Aloha,
Robbie Lindauer
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Oops, one more thing.
The models page pricing was WRONG. I'm sorry, we're actually much cheaper than that!
Aloha,
Robbie
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Hey Robbie how long before you get specific on the materials will they include decking for roofs/floors and are there pics or drawings coming? Will you offer further deals on finish materials. Have you sold any are there any in the construction phase. The pressure is on, be careful you don't get in over your head some of us tire kickers can spin you pretty good
)) Good luck thanks for posting Really hope it works out as it would be a real treat to see someone in a startup bussiness not price gouging....
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Hi Dave:
We're not currently including other materials, there are many excellent suppliers of raw materials on the island.
We're specifically focusing on rough framing - walls, ceilings floor joists, rafters - so you get a complete box and can put what you want on and in it.
I think this is the "heavy-lifting" stuff that your average build-it-yourselfer doesn't really want to do and isn't necessarily qualified to do and if you haven't done it a few times already, really should be scared to do.
That's what I'm trying to fix.
I'm happy to go into details.
I really believe this to be the best inexpensive way to build on the island - it's less expensive than hand-framing by about 1/2 and less expensive than shipping in a mobile home, and you end up with a real custom wood-framed house, not something less than that.
I currently have permits in process for two houses here on the island.
Drawings online are coming soon to our 'new website' at:
http://www.dekesel.com/homes/
Aloha,
Robbie
