TILTON, N.H., May 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There is a long history of kit home manufacturing in the United States. One of the earliest and best-known kit home producers was Sears, who offered a wide variety of well-built homes from 1908 to 1940.
In 1970, 30 years after Sears stopped selling homes, Shelter-Kit of Tilton, NH began manufacturing kit cabins and homes. The founders of Shelter-Kit saw a need for affordable cabins and houses that could be easily assembled by aspiring homeowners with no prior building experience. In order to provide a kit home that inexperienced people could really assemble, the Shelter-Kit designers decided that all parts of the kits had to be precut to exacting accuracy, everything necessary to assemble the kit had to be included, and a very detailed and easy to follow Construction Manual had to be provided.
Based on customer requests over the past 42 years, Shelter-Kit has evolved to meet the needs of the changing housing market and now produces a wide variety of custom house, cabin barn and garage kits. That means that people with no building skills or experience can achieve their goal of designing and building their own customized full-time or vacation home, workshop, barn or garage, while saving money in the process.
Shelter-Kit provides the structural drawings required for a Building Permit in the U.S. and Canada, even for sites with high seismic and wind conditions.
People can save a great deal of money by assembling Shelter-Kit buildings, instead of hiring a contractor or buying a comparable modular home, and gain a lot of satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment in the process.
Shelter-Kit buildings are economically shipped throughout the United States, Canada and internationally. Visit www.shelter-kit.com.
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