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Dates and Drawings

Order Processing
When you order a Kodiak Steel Homes^® kit, you can expect a specific sequence of events to follow. A few days after you have returned your signed contract and paid your deposit, we will send you an order acknowledgement. If we have a question about anything on your order one of our representatives will call you to confirm the details. The next steps will depend on the status of your order, whether it is make and ship or hold for permit (see the Ordering and Payment section for an explanation of these terms).

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Make and Ship Orders
About 10 days after we receive your make and ship order, we will have your delivery dates and will notify you by phone or, if possible, by e-mail. About this same time, you will receive a letter explaining the procedures for taking delivery of your materials and paying your C.O.D. balance. Within about two weeks of placing your order, you should receive a package with the following materials:

1. Erection drawings (3 sets)
2. Bill of materials (parts list)
3. Erection and safety manual

About 10 days to two weeks before your materials deliver, our shipping coordinator will call you to confirm the dates and go over the process of taking delivery with you.

Hold for Permit Orders
About 10 days to two weeks after we receive your hold for permit order, we will send you a set of stamped structural drawings for you to submit to your permit office. When you release your order from hold (see the section on Ordering and Payment), we will begin the make and ship sequence described above.

Drawings
We supply complete construction drawings for each Kodiak Steel Homes kit. In addition to architectural floor plan and elevation drawings, you will receive a set of structural drawings that includes anchor bolt plans, frame and roof cross sections, connection details, and roof sheeting plans (where applicable). At your option, every page of the structural plans can be stamped with the seal of an engineer licensed in the state the home is to be delivered, certifying that the structure meets the building code and design loads listed on the contract and the drawings. All of our standard plans are drawn not-to-scale and printed on 11" x 17" paper following the conventions of the metal building industry (on which our framing system is based). You can download sample drawings for each of our models from the page devoted to that home plan in our Models and Pricing section.

Above are two elevation drawings for one of our Windmaster Palm Beach models

Your subcontractors will set needed services
like plumbing and conduit in the foundation




A section from a Windmaster floor plan

Anchor Bolt Plans and Foundation Design
We do not design foundations. For the most cost-effective approach, we strongly advise that you hire a local foundation engineer who will be familiar with your soil conditions and can personally inspect your job site if necessary. The anchor-bolt setting plans included in our standard drawings specify the type, diameter, and location of the anchor bolts, and they provide a table of column reactions (the stresses the frame can put on a foundation). This will give your engineer all the information needed to design the proper foundation for your home.

Design Calculations
Permit offices in some states (in particular California, Florida, Arizona, and Oregon) may require that permit drawings include the engineering design calculations. Design calculations or "calcs" are the mathematical work the engineer performed to create and test the design. For a Kodiak Steel Homes kit, a set of calcs amounts to a book that will run between 60 and 200 pages. We do not supply design calcs as part of our standard drawing package, but we offer them as an option for an additional charge. If requested, design calcs may delay the delivery of your drawings by two to four weeks.

Mechanical Drawings
For some Kodiak Steel Homes models, we supply rough mechanical drawings (electrical, plumbing, sewer, etc.). However, these are intended only as guidelines, offered mainly to help with cost estimates and to show where things like electrical outlets, faucets, and toilets can be placed. Using your floor plan, your subcontractors should be readily able to provide you with final mechanical plans for their trades, including engineer-sealed plans when necessary.

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