Wall Panel Advantages

Whether you are a developer looking to save valuable time on your next project, a framer looking to minimize mistakes and expensive callbacks, or a homeowner looking for the highest quality home you can build, wall panels have advantages for you.

Panelized Home under construction

Listed below are just a few of the many advantages that you can count on by using wall panels on your next project.

• Easier to construct – The labor intensive part of framing is done in our facililty under controlled conditions reducing the chance for mistakes in the field.

Wall Panel assembly line

• Build a “greener” structure – Wall panels can use “green” friendly building techniques such as insulated headers, two piece energy corners, and engineered lumber for header material.
• Reduced Waste – Wall panels produce far less jobsite waste than conventional stick building. This can drastically cut down expensive dumpster fees.
• Reduce Cleanup – Wall panels mean that your framing crew can spend more time getting your structure under roof and less time cleaning up the waste of your jobsite.
• Time Savings – Structures can be dried in much faster, reducing harmful exposure to weather. We can also factory apply house wrap to your wall panels saving you even more time in the field and providing another layer of early weather protection.
• Build a structurally sound home – With wall panels supplied from the same manufacturer as your floor and roof trusses, you can all but eliminate mistakes. Everything from critical bearing locations for large concentrated loads, properly sized structural members, correct window and door rough openings, and errors in architectural drawings can be found and accounted for ahead of time in our facility, reducing unproductive time from your framing crew.
• Avoid unnecessary delays – According to a study called “What We Learned by Framing the American Dream” wall panels can reduce your wall framing time by significant amounts (26½ man hours with wall panels compared to 93 man hours stick framing on a 2,600 sq ft house).

Wall Panels being erected on site

• Reduce Construction Loan Interest – This drastically reduced time can also save money on interest paid on construction loans.
• Appraisal fees – Mortgage lenders are requiring that appraisals be completed within 120 days of permanent financing. Wall panels save precious time that may help avoid additional appraisal fees.
• Work out the “kinks” – Wall panel design software allows you to “see” the framing before it is built. This enables the wall panel designer to catch potential problems such as door sizes not fitting in the areas they are called for, incorrect measurements listed on the architectural drawings, conflicting window locations, and more. Working these problems out before construction begins can drastically reduce unproductive time from your framing crew.
• Building Codes – Codes on shear walls, lateral wall bracing, portal framing, nailing patterns, and tall wall applications are changing at a rapid pace. We can take these new codes into account with our precise engineering technology and controlled building environment.
• Reduce Theft – People are far less likely to steal wall panels from a jobsite than they are to steal loose framing lumber or sheathing.
• Limitless Possibilities – Timber Truss Housing Systems can build tall wall panels, sloping walls, short walls, 2×4 up to 2×8 walls, and walls with any specified stud spacing. We can also provide a variety of factory applied sheathing such as; OSB, plywood, foam, SIS, or gypsum.

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