Our timber frame home packages are manufactured in a factory-controlled environment by skilled Yankee Barn craftsmen.

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Item Standard Materials Popular Options

Foundation

Conventional poured or block foundation or slab Provided by your local builder.

ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms)

First Floor Sub Floor

Conventional girders, joists, lally columns and plywood. Provided by your local builder, design by Yankee Barn.

Engineered truss floor system

Frame

Post and beam structural frame, planed, kiln dried Doug Fir timbers, pre stained in your choice of color.

Rough sawn or skip planed timbers, pre stained in your choice of color.

Walls

True Wall Panels: YBH Shop-built exterior wall panels of 2x6 studs 24" o.c. with 4" foil faced rigid polyisocyanurate insulation (R-25.3). Sheathed with 5/8" CDX plywood outside skin. In addition, we factory install most windows into the walls.

Extra 1" insulation (R-31.6).

YBH walls with framing, sheathing and windows installed only. Insulation and interior finish by others

 

Exterior siding

Kiln dried 1x8 White Pine shiplap prestained in your choice of factory applied color Siding is applied over house wrap on site.

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" Cement Clapboards

Interior partitions

Provided by your local builder.

  

Windows

Andersen® 400 series clad windows with argon filled, high performance insulating glass, pre-installed in panels whenever possible. Casement windows with screens are the most popular window. Standard includes removable interior grilles, four exterior color options.

Eagle Windows with choice of 50 exterior colors & six interior wood options..

Permanent interior and exterior grilles.

Interior trim for windows
and exterior doors

1x 4 clear White Pine trim with 5/4x 4 Pine head trim, Pre-cut, wrapped and labeled

Plinth blocks (corner blocks) factory installed to the head trim

Exterior Doors

Pre-hung Simpson® #7324 Two panel Douglas Fir entrance.

Pre-hung Morgan® solid wood door.

Steel or fiberglass exterior door.
 

Anderson® Frenchwood sliding or hinged patio doors with argon filled, high performance insulating glass.

Morgan® wood terrace and French patio doors.

Eagle Patio Doors

Exterior Trim

Rough Sawn, Pre-stained 2" thick kiln dried Eastern White Pine.

Pre-stained 5/4 Red Cedar or Eastern White Pine.

Composite trim most often used with cement siding

Roof

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-33.4) between the rafters.

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 41.5).

2x8 rafter roof panels.

Roof shingles and ridge vent

Provided by your local builder.

 

Skylights

Velux® with tempered, Low-E argon filled glass, builder installed.

Electric remote controlled operators

Shades

Second Floor

2x10 joists, 16"o.c. with 3/4" tongue and groove Advantek® sub floor. Finish ceiling below is by builder.

Engineered Truss floor systems (wood I-Beams) and Advantek®

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.

Attic Floor

Plank floor of nominal 3x8 laminated tongue and groove Ponderosa Pine structural planking.

Conventional 2x10 joists with 3/4" tongue and groove Advantek® sub floor.

Stairs

    

Main and attic stair sets

Pre assembled Southern Yellow Pine stringers and includes newel posts, balusters and handrail.

Stairs make from White Oak

Balcony railing

Pre assembled Southern Yellow Pine stringers and includes newel posts, balusters and handrail.

New Douglas Fir loft handrails and 2x2 balusters in fir, Southern Yellow Pine or KD Doug fir beam stock.

Fasteners & Flashing

Wrought head decorative nails, galvanized common nails, construction adhesive, aluminum flashing, expandable foam gaskets, insulation foam spray.

 

Other

    

Flooring

  

Unfinished 1x6 and 1x8 tongue and groove Southern Yellow Pine boards, or Yankee Barn White Oak 1x3, 1x4, 1x5.

Interior doors

  

Four panel KD Douglas Fir doors, door slab only or pre-hung in rabbeted frames

Shell Component Packaging

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 onsite.

YBH Crew's are available to assemle the shell on your site.