Basic Kit Home Installation Steps… Get Ready… Set… and Live!
When you review the basic kit home installation steps, it’s easy to see that building a new kit home is much simpler than designing and building a home from the ground up. Building a kit home is quicker, much more inexpensive, and more adaptable to your needs. With an understanding of the installation process, anyone can build their own home on their property by following expert advice from professional kit home installers.
There are 4 stages to the installation of the kit home. You must first prepare the pier and floor system upon which the walls will set. The second step is the actual erection of the frame made simpler by using pre-constructed walls. Next the roof rafters are installed and the roof sheathed and finished. Finally the windows, doors and cladding are installed.
Of course there are detailed steps within each stage. There are also things you can do which make the job much easier. The simplification steps are offered by those who have experience installing kit homes on a variety of land configurations and conditions.
Snapping Your Fingers
It would be great if you could snap your fingers and your new home suddenly appeared. That’s not possible, of course, but you can certainly build a new home quickly and easily when you choose to build a kit home. A kit home is set on piers above ground which means you don’t have to worry about expensive concrete slabs. The walls are constructed long before they are delivered. You also get detailed instructions for a variety of situations including setting the house on sloped land or to achieve minimal ecological impact.
The basic kit home installation steps are really quite simple.
- Prepare the land as necessary such as establishing an access road
- Dig the pier holes
- Set the profiles which support the bearers
- Set the bearers which will support the joists
- Fit joists between bearers
- Set the piers
- Pour concrete into pier holes
- Fix the floor sheeting
- Erect the pre-constructed wall frames
- Install tie-down system
- Set the rafters
- Install rafter fixing for stability and strength
- Build decks or verandahs
- Install cladding
- Install windows and doors
- Affix roofing
Once the house is enclosed the interior work can be completed. On the interior the following work will be completed.
- Plumbing rough-in
- Electrical rough-in
- Install gyprocking
- Install Internal doors
- Install tiling
- Complete bathroom fit-off
- Kitchen
- Painting
The kit homes are solid and stable homes which can be built to withstand the roughest Australian weather. Kit homes are also suitable for bushfire zones. The homes are affordable and expandable too. The house can grow with your family over time.
Owner Building Leads to Owner Happiness
It’s easy to see that once you buy your kit home, it’s not long before the house is ready for finish work. The homes have been designed so they can be installed by the owner with minimal assistance from a building contractor. But for those who would prefer to leave their building to professionals, you can hire an experienced kit home supervisor who will see the work completed from beginning to end.
John says:
As someone who has been building an Oz Kit home for a few months now I’d just like to add one tip for new owner builders. For measuring long measurements in your set out and when putting up your frame use a good quality steel measuring tape not a fibreglass one. Since buying a thirty metre steel tape I have found my measurements much more accurate and easier. The fibreglass tape measure I had been using to do measurements had some stretch in it and I found did nto give consistent measurements.
July 11th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Tim says:
This may seem like a stupid question but for the price do you put up the house (they seem well priced) or do we have to employ a builder to make the house from the kit?
Regards
Tim
September 9th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Hayden says:
Hi Tim,
Our customers are generally Owner Builders or owner managers, and either build the house themselves or hire and manage the trades to complete the work.
There are some people who also hire licenced builders to complete the whole job for them.
Hope that helps to clear it up.
Cheers
Hayden Kerr
Ozkit Homes
October 20th, 2009 at 1:48 am
John says:
After getting council DA approval in April we are now at the stage where we have done the roughout and are doing the eaves before getting stuck into the gyprock. I have to say that building the house is easier than I expected, and the steel frame has been easy to put up and work with. John
December 18th, 2009 at 9:56 pm