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Foundation
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Conventional poured or block foundation or slab. Provided by your local builder, design by Yankee Barn.
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ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms)
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First Floor Subfloor
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Conventional girders, joists, lally columns and plywood. Provided by your local builder, design by Yankee Barn.
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Engineered truss floor system
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Frame
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Post and beam structural frame, planed, kiln-dried Douglas Fir timbers, pre-stained in your choice of color.
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Rough sawn or skip planed timbers, pre-stained in your choice of color.
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Walls
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True Wall ® Panels: YBH Shop-built exterior wall panels of 2x6 studs 24" o.c. with 4" foil faced rigid polyisocyanurate insulation (R-28.4). Sheathed with 5/8" CDX plywood outside skin. In addition, we factory install most windows into the wall panels.
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Extra 1" insulation (R-35.6).
YBH walls with framing, sheathing and windows installed only. Insulation and interior finish by others
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Exterior siding
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Kiln-dried 1x8 White Pine shiplap prestained in your choice of factory applied color. Siding is applied over house wrap on site.
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Pre-stained 1/2" x 6" Red Cedar clapboards
Pre-stained 1"x 8" Red Cedar shiplap
Pre-stained White Cedar shingles
Primed 1/2"x6" Certainteed fiber cement Clapboards
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Interior partitions
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Provided by your local builder.
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Windows
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Andersen® 400 series clad windows with argon filled, high performance insulating glass, pre-installed in panels whenever possible.
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Woodwright Eagle Windows with choice of 50 exterior colors & six interior wood options..
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Interior trim for windows
and exterior doors
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1x 4 clear White Pine trim with 5/4x 4 Pine head trim, pre-cut, wrapped and labeled
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Plinth blocks (corner blocks) factory installed to the head trim
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Exterior Doors
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Pre-hung Simpson® #7324 Two-panel Douglas Fir entrance door.
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Pre-hung Morgan® solid wood door.
Steel or fiberglass exterior door.
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Anderson® Frenchwood sliding or hinged patio doors with argon filled, high performance insulating glass.
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Morgan® wood terrace and French patio doors.
Eagle Patio Doors
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Exterior Trim
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Rough Sawn, pre-stained 2" thick kiln dried Eastern White Pine.
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Pre-stained 5/4 Red Cedar or Eastern White Pine.
Composite trim most often used with fiber cement siding
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Roof
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True Roof ® Panels: YBH Shop-built roof panels complete with insulation and top and bottom skins attached to 2x6 rafters, 16" o.c. 1/2" Blueboard interior, and 5/8" CDX plywood exterior with 5 1/4" foil faced rigid polyisocyanurate insulation (R-34.7) between the rafters.
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1x8 ponderosa pine, available in a white or clear finish with a UV protective coat.
1x8 knotty pine boards, available rough sawn or smooth, unfinished, pickled white or clear finish.
Extra 1 1/2" insulation (R 42.1).
2x8 rafter roof panels.
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Roof shingles and ridge vent
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Provided by your local builder.
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Skylights
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Velux® with tempered, Low-E argon filled glass, builder installed.
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Electric remote controlled operators
Shades
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Second Floor
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9 1/4" open joists, 16"o.c. with 3/4" tongue and groove Advantech® subfloor. Finish ceiling below is by builder.
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Engineered Truss floor systems (wood I-Beams) and Advantech®
Site applied first floor ceiling of v-groove 1x8 Ponderosa Pine boards in Pre-finished white, clear or unfinished for site applied color.
Plank floor of nominal 3x8 laminated tongue and groove Ponderosa Pine structural planking.
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Attic Floor
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Plank floor of nominal 3x8 laminated tongue and groove Ponderosa Pine structural planking.
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Conventional 2x10 joists with 3/4" tongue and groove Advantech® subfloor.
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Stairs
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Main and attic stair sets
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Pre assembled Southern Yellow Pine stringers and includes newel posts, balusters and handrail.
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Stairs made from White Oak
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Balcony railing
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Pre assembled Southern Yellow Pine stringers and includes newel posts, balusters and handrail.
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New Douglas Fir loft handrails and 2x2 balusters in fir, Southern Yellow Pine or KD Doug fir beam stock.
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Fasteners & Flashing
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Wrought head decorative nails, galvanized common nails, construction adhesive, aluminum flashing, expandable foam gaskets, insulation foam spray.
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Other
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Flooring
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-Unfinished 1x6 and 1x8 tongue and groove Southern Yellow Pine boards.
-Douglas fir 1x6 and 1x8 boards
-Carlisle Wood flooring
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Interior doors
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Four panel KD Douglas Fir doors, door slab only or pre-hung in rabbeted frames
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Shell Component Packaging
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After each new home kit is completed in our factory, all shell components are carefully labeled and protectively-packed for shipment, including building and assembly manual. A YBH Shell Supervisor is standard with your package. The Shell Superviser works with your builder to assemble the YBH shell components on your site.
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YBH Crews are available to assemble the home shell on your site.
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Free Sample Plans
YBH Testimonials
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Chose YBH for the creativity and flexibility of design and quality. The production office was most cooperative and patient as our direction changed several times. We love our barn, it's what we always wanted and are very happy.”—G.K., Connecticut
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YBH was more specific, more professional and more customer service oriented. The production office showed patience, endurance and were good facilitators.”—R.M., New Hampshire
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We're happy with Yankee Barn and with our barn. You did what you said you'd do. The production office was nice to deal with.”—Anon.
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We stayed at the model home in Grantham and felt like we were home. We liked the speed of construction, the quality was better, the personnel were great.”—M.C., Vermont
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Great product. Great company. Good Service. Planner came to the site and planned it from there.It worked out well. Production Office very helpful. Overall impression - outstanding.”—A.P., Pennsylvania
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