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Prefabricated Steel Frame Only Home Packages:
Medford Enterprises, Inc., in Lihue, Hawaii is proud to introduce the new “Affordable Prefabricated Steel Frame Only Home Packages”. Medford Enterprises, Inc. (MEI) offers Prefabricated Steel Frame Only Home Packages for the first time, additional, or investor homebuyer.
Steel Frame Homes offer spacious living areas with up to 40' clear spans, garage or car port options, average less materials, less material cost, less waste, and offer faster construction time.
We can use your plans or drawings to design the steel framing for your dream home. We can convert your wood frame drawings to steel frame drawings and quote the prefabricated wall and truss materials for your project.
Our intention for offering these packages is to help meet the need for easy to assemble, strong, and affordable steel frame home packages in all 50 states.
These packages will provide the owner with a home that will stand up to high winds, heavy rains, snow, will be fire, earthquake, and Termite resistant for many years to come.
All prefabricated wall and roof truss steel frames are manufactured with light gauge "Galvanized" steel that offer strength and high wind loads (minimum wind loads of 120 M.P.H).
We ship these prefabricated steel frame only home packages from the manufacturer directly to most job sites overland by truck, on 24' or 40’ flat racks, or both for over water shipping.
Your prefabricated steel frame only home package arrives ready for assembly on your foundation. Just stand the exterior & interior walls up, anchor them to the foundation & to each other as you go, secure the truses to the wall top plates, and your home is completely framed ready for installing your finish materials.
Your prefabricated steel frame only package offers you or your contractor ease of assembly, faster framing time, with less material, and labor costs which equals to completing your home construction sooner at less cost.
We provide Sealed Engineered Structural Drawings for your home. The plans include the floor plan & elevation drawings, the anchor bolt detail drawing, the structures roof truss & wall framing diagrams, and erection details.
How Do You Get started?
There are four easy steps:
Step 1: The blueprints or drawings of your home is received by the manufacture. They calculate the light gauge steel framing needed for your home and send you a quote for your prefabricated walls and trusses.
Step 2: You place an order by signing a contract and making your framing materials deposit. The balance is due when the materials are ready for shipment from the manufacturer. Shipping can be arranged by us or through your freight forwarder if you wish.
Step 3: Your homes exterior, interior, and roof truss steel framing is prefabricated at the plant including framing in of all windows and doors; fabricated directly from your drawings. Your prefabricated walls & trusses are loaded on flat racks and shipped directly to most jobsites.
Step 4: Your prefabricated framing materials arrive on your jobsite, you off load the walls and truss framing, and your assemby process can begin by either you or your contractor. Once your prefabricated steel framing is assembled, you or your contractor can start installing the finishing materials.
No matter if you have the need for just one home or a hundred homes, it is that easy.
Items included in all Steel Frame Only Home Packages:
Framing:
All of the prefabricated light gauge "Galvanized" steel frame materials required for framing the structure (detailed from your drawings); this includes all exterior wall window & door framing and all interior wall door framing.
The roof trusses, ceiling furring, 3 1/2” or 5 1/2" exterior wall studs, 3 1/2” interior wall studs, 2nd floor joists, all headers, track, post, sub fascia, soffit framing, hurricane clips, angle straps, and fasteners to complete the framing assembly.
Items not included:
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Foundation drawings (It is recommended that you contact a local Architect/Engineer to draw the foundation for your home to comply with your specific County and State Building Codes. This Architect/Engineer will draw the foundation details, electrical, plumbing, sewer/septic, your plot plan drawings, will add our detail and erection drawings to your blueprint packet, will re-stamp the entire packet, and will then becomes the local Architect/Engineer of record for your Building Permit Process)
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Foundation materials
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Anchor Bolts (less expensive to purchase locally due to the weight and cost of shipping)
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Electrical wiring, switches, out lets, power boxes, breakers, fixtures, or weather heads (your local electrician or public service company should supply these items)
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Plumbing pipes, fittings, or hot water heaters (your local plumber should supply these items)
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Sheeting, 5/8” pressure treated plywood roof decking, 1/2” pressure treated plywood wall sheeting, or 3/4" pressure treated plywood decking (less expensive to purchase locally due to the weight and cost of shipping)
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Drywall, mud, tape, or screws (less expensive to purchase locally due to the weight and cost of shipping)
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Interior or exterior paints, stains, sealers or wallpaper
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Caulking or sealing materials
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Floor coverings
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Kitchen/bath counters and tops
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Appliances
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Heating, cooling equipment, or ducting
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Stairs (Interior/exterior stairs are required to be field manufactured to fit structure)
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Gutters or down spouts
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Assembly or erection of the home
Options:
Steel Storm Safe Room Framing Only Packages with a 250 mph wind load (For new addition or retro-fit). Framing package includes steel studs, track, ceiling joist, and steel sheeting (3/4" x 4' x 8' treated plywood sheets, drywall, and anchor bolts by others).
Our Steel Storm Safe Rooms are designed to meet and exceed FEMA’s (Federal Emergency Management Agency) minimum specifications as directed in FEMA 320 – Taking Shelter From The Storm: “Building A Safe Room Inside Your House”; August 1999, Second Edition.
Low-E Insulation This 1/8th inch thick, double foil backed, and flex foam filled material offers an insulation value rating of R-11 when installed over framing with an open space on wall studs, ceilings joists, attic floor joists, or roof trusses. The rolls come in 48" wide x 500 square foot rolls. Includes 3" wide Aluminum Foil Sealing Tape.
Why Steel Frame Homes
1. Termite & Vermin Resistant
We know the fact that we spend lots of money for the treatment against termites for wood framed homes. Termites and other pests can’t eat or chew through steel. Your Custom Steel Frame Home will help avoid most of the expense of pest control treatment.
2. Fire Safety / Resistance
Custom Steel Framed Home walls act as a one-hour fire rated wall if it is sheathed with 5/8" drywall. Our Steel Frame Homes offer heavy protection from fire & high winds.
The nature of steel does not allow spreading of fire. The major benefits: offers sufficient time for evacuating family & loved ones, gives more time for fire fighters to save the remaining structure, and its components. Your main structure steel framing does not burn and may not need to be replaced if you do have a fire in your home.
3. Recycle
Any and all excess steel scrap is recyclable. Steel is a "Constructive Green" choice.
4. Energy Saving with higher Insulation rating
Our "Custom Steel Frame Homes" have 4” to 6" thick exterior walls which will allow insulation ratings up of R-30 (attic) and R-19 or R-14(exterior walls), produce quieter interiors, and higher comfort levels inside the home. You may save aadditional money in the long run on your energy bills.
The standard 4" or 6" thick walls with added insulation will reduce outside noises substantially.
5. Financing / Resale value
By delivering you a "Custom Steel Frame Only Home", we believe that we delivered you a product with a higher resale value and with lower maintenance cost. Some insurance companies offer discounts on Home Owner’s Insurance Policies when the home is constructed with steel framing.
6. Inside Environment
Our "Custom Steel Frames Only Homes" will help provide you a vapor free environment. The steel framing of your home is protected against rust, corrosion, and steel does not promote mold or mildew. Encapsulated Galvanized steel has a life expectancy of hundreds of years (not warrantied for that time peroid).
7. Weather
Our "Custom Steel Framed Only Homes" are much stronger than wood & much sturdier in any type of disasters such as Hurricanes, Tornados, Earthquakes, and Heavy Snows. You can save more money by reducing repair costs due to these natural disasters.
8. Your own Home Plans
MEI invites you to send your own plans, sketches, requirements, and we will send you a prefabricated steel frame only materials quote that may help you build your Dream Home with stronger steel framing in less time.
9. Larger Spans
Because of engineering design with steel components, our "Custom Steel Framed Only Homes" have greater flexibility. This allows us to design up to 40’ "Clear Spans" (As per eng. design). You can create wide spacious rooms without support columns in between or in the middle of a room. Wood framed homes can not offer this type of flexibility.
10. Perfect Alignment, Straight Walls, and Perfect Corners
Our "Custom Steel Framed Only Homes" come with straight prefabricated walls and trusses that will allow constructing your home framing in less time and usually at less expense.
Metal does not wrap, buckle or split. The result is clear; you will get perfect aligned ceilings & walls with fewer separations of exterior materials over time.
11. Tech Screw/Rivited/Bolted connections
With the help of Engineered design in steel, we provide you with prefabricated steel walls that are secured with Tech Screws or rivits and trusses with bolted connections which do not come apart with age. Building a wood framed home with nails does not offer this advantage.
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