Post And Beam Kits: The Kit House

An alternative to framing up your own timbers, and a time-saving one, is to purchase a kit house frame.

Among the several companies that sell post and beam framed houses knocked down is Timberpeg of Claremont, New Hampshire.

Timberpeg offers a number of house design packages that will be erected for your, or that you can assemble yourself.

Their timbers, of native pine, are planed and cut to the proper length.

The appropriate mortises and tenons are routed and cut, and all pieces are marked for quick identification at the construction site.

To this post and beam kits framing package, lumber for interior and exterior siding and ceilings are added, and hand split cedar shakes are supplied for the roof, along with upper-level floor decking, windows, sliding glass doors, pre-hung exterior doors, and skylights.

The Timberpeg roof system comprises 1X8 decking, 2-inch insulation board, 1X4 strapping with its airspace, and handprint cedar shingles, giving an insulation value of more than r-20.

Many of Timberpeg’s designs incorporate passive solar collection areas.

Typical is the Timberpeg gambrel that has two passive solar collection areas dominating the south elevation, plus a greenhouse adjacent to the kitchen and dining room, and a two-story sunspace.

In this house, a 12-inch-thick Trombe wall of concrete block, faced on both sides with brick, separates the greenhouse from the kitchen/dining room.

Other Timberpeg designs are the barn house, the cluster shed, and solar houses with active collection modes.

Rather than list companies marketing post and beam kits, a list that would be constantly changing and incomplete, we ask that you look in your area for qualified framers and check magazine advertisements for companies.

It is hoped that with the knowledge you have gained from this site, you will be better able to choose quality work and get a better home for your investment.

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