Welcome Homebuilders

I'm John House, CEO of Kodiak Steel Homes, Inc. Welcome to our site and thank you for your interest in our company. The last couple of years have been very eventful for the House family. At the end of 2004, my brother Byron and I sold our two building companies — Steelbuilding.com and Heritage Building Systems — to NCI LP of Houston, the largest manufacturer of metal building components in the U.S. We also negotiated a long-term agreement for NCI to act as the exclusive fabricator for Kodiak Steel Homes^® framing systems. This will allow us to offer you the highest quality homes at extremely competitive prices.

I recently finished construction of my own steel framed home at my farm in northeastern Arkansas. It's one of our Crestwood models, and I'm extremely proud of it. Not only is it a beautiful house, but it's going to give me the comfort and security I need. I'm in a remote area more than five miles from the headquarters of our county's tiny volunteer fire department. It would take at least 30 minutes for a crew to respond to an emergency at my place, yet I get the same insurance rate for my steel home as I would for concrete block. This is only one of the benefits. I'm in the Mississippi River delta, surrounded by miles and miles of flooded rice fields and swamps. In the summer, we experience tropical heat and humidity, but with my reflective foil insulation wrap and 6 inches of blown-in cellulose I enjoy cool air-conditioned comfort with minimal expense, and my heating costs in the winter (propane tanks) are extremely low.

Because of its location, my home could almost be a testing laboratory for resistance to extreme conditions. For example, numerous studies have confirmed that bolted connections are much stronger in high winds than nail connections, and I've had the opportunity to prove it in the field. Arkansas is on the edge of tornado alley, and my steel home has already weathered several impressive storms without a scratch, including one recent tornado that took down a couple of 100 year-old trees in the yard.

Also, everyone knows that California suffers frequent earthquakes, but few are aware that the most potentially dangerous seismic zone in the lower 48 states — the New Madrid fault — runs through southern Missouri into northeastern Arkansas, and I'm only a couple of miles from it (we had two magnitude 4 quakes this Spring). However, we are able to engineer Kodiak Steel Homes models to a seismic 4 rating, the highest specification in any current building code. Our homes are anchored into the foundation with J-bolts that are typically sunk at least 12 inches into the concrete and reinforced with rebar. While I certainly can't guarantee that your steel home will withstand any storm or earthquake, I can say that our homes offer you the best protection available.

My farm house is the last I will ever build. To make it my dream home, I was willing to spend a little extra to get the best. But my Kodiak Steel Homes Crestwood model actually costs much less than I would have had to pay for a wood-framed home that was engineered to the same specifications, and it will repay me in energy, maintenance, and insurance savings for decades to come. If you're like me, you believe that your family is worth the best you can provide. You can have that with a Kodiak Steel Homes kit. Contact us, and we'll show you how. Thanks again for coming by.

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