Prices of prefabricated wooden houses

When it comes to the costs of a prefabricated wooden house, it is essential to make a point immediately: a wooden house is a house in all respects, designed to last over time and to live in it in maximum comfort, with building standards equal or higher traditional brick houses, and should not be confused with the wooden houses or the temporary housing modules MAP (the wooden houses we are used to hear from the mass media in the case of exceptional seismic events).

TO TALK ABOUT COSTS WE MUST DISTINGUISH WOODEN HOUSES FROM WOODEN HOUSES

Having said this, it immediately becomes clear that the prices of wooden houses are, by necessity, very different from the prices of the wooden houses , because we are talking about different products and completely different housing concepts.

Before moving on to numbers and talking about costs, we better define these types of housing, in order to provide price ranges for each of them.

WOODEN HOUSE OR COTTAGE?

Wood is a resistant material and at the same time very malleable, in the sense that it allows to be used in various assemblies to give life to numerous constructive systems, more or less complex, to build houses of various types.

We can say that the main difference between a wooden house and a wooden house is that:

• the wooden house is temporary , also dismountable and movable, and allows you to live there for a short time or in limited periods of the year
• the wooden house is fixed and stable , can not be dismantled (unless it is demolished) and is designed to live every day, even in extreme weather conditions

THE WOODEN HOUSES

The wooden houses therefore serve when there is a need for temporary or temporary shelter at a reasonable cost. We can define the following categories of houses:

garden houses and bungalows: this type of housing is mainly made with the blockhaus technique, that is by means of wooden planks that fit together on each other to form the walls and the structure of the house.
The walls do not have plasters, neither internal nor external, and the degree of thermal insulation is proportional to the thickness of the wooden beams used.
The houses of this type are dismountable and, in most cases, do not require the use of glues or nails for assembly.
The systems are in sight and there are, therefore, very limited design possibilities.
The cost for these types of prefabricated houses is between 200 € / sqm and 400 € / sqm.
These houses are certainly an excellent choice for country houses or houses by the sea, or at least in all those situations where you do not have to live in the house or spend too much time.

Temporary Housing Modules : these are the typical "houses for earthquake victims", made for emergency buildings, designed to be transported on the basis of a container, they can provide various assembly methods (more containers side by side to form modular and expandable solutions. they are temporary, designed to last a few years, however, offer a good living comfort and are equipped with complete systems and in accordance with the law, even if there is in fact no design freedom.The cost for these types of houses goes from € 400 / sqm to 600 € / sqm, including installations.

WOODEN HOUSES

When we speak instead of wooden houses we mean real houses, like the ones we are used to seeing on TV in American broadcasts to understand each other. The Prefabricated Wooden Houses are designed and built to last.

The Wooden Houses do not necessarily provide that there is wood on sight, on the contrary. In prefabricated houses, both plasters and traditional finishes are used, both internally and externally, equal to traditional constructions. So there will be walls plastered and whitewashed or covered with tiles or other decorative materials just like in all other houses.

The only difference is that the heart of the house, therefore the structure, is made with wood, which by its nature is an excellent thermal insulator , is resistant but flexible , so it lends itself well to ensuring the characteristics of anti-seismicity , and guarantees high standards of healthiness and breathability of the walls.

The main construction techniques adopted are:

Frame Technique : the structure is composed entirely of wooden boards and the walls are made of MDF panels, while the interspaces are used to pass all the electrical and thermo-hydraulic systems and are then filled with insulating and fireproof material
X-Lam Technique : also called cross-lam, provides for the use of "full" walls, or to form panels of laminated wood of at least 20 cm thick, made by assembling several wooden planks with a crossed technique (for this X) . This type of housing is characterized by particularly reduced construction times. In fact, it takes a couple of days to assemble all the prefabricated components in the company to have the entire structure standing. The design choices, even in this case, are very varied, while there is some more limitation on the plant design.

Starting from these two main building typologies, many Italian green building contractors have developed patents with construction systems that improve thermal efficiency, living comfort or structural resistance. For these reasons, when comparing the estimates of a wooden house, it is important to consider the type of construction and its peculiar characteristics, which must best adapt to the housing needs and the climatic zone of construction.

Given these premises, it must be said that the price of a prefabricated wooden house depends not only on the type of construction, but also on the construction of the house itself.

THE PROGRESS OF BUILDING A WOODEN HOUSE

Almost all the Italian manufacturers of green houses offer different stages of construction of the house as a point of delivery. A different price corresponds to each state, as it should be.

RAW LEVEL

Buying a wooden house in the raw state you buy essentially the structure and nothing more. Obviously we are talking about the whole house with the external walls and the roof.

ADVANCED RAW LEVEL

When we talk instead of Raw Advanced , we mean everything included in the raw plus:

• interior walls
• internal and external plasters
• roof tiles and tinsmiths
• external windows, with thresholds and window sills
• outer coat

ADVANCED RAW LEVEL WITH PLANTS

The Advanced Raw layer with Plants , as you can easily guess, includes everything expected at the Advanced Raw level plus:

• electrical installations
• hydraulic system
• heating system

KEYS IN HAND

The Turnkey level includes all the provisions in the previous levels plus:

• interior doors
• screeds
• floors and walls
• sanitary ware and taps for bathrooms
• railings (where provided in houses on several levels)
• boilers or heat pumps for the air conditioning system
• solar thermal panels and / or photovoltaic system
• plaster and painting

PRICES OF PREFABRICATED WOODEN HOUSES

After having seen the types of construction available and the construction of a prefabricated house we can finally talk about costs.

Obviously, the prices of prefabricated houses , as far as they can be precise during the estimation phase, can vary a lot based on the design choices. Out of shape plants, very large windows, underfloor heating systems, geothermal systems or solar panels can easily increase costs.

We must also consider that, if you have a trustworthy company to bring the house to completion starting from the raw state, in general you can get to save up to 10% on the cost of the house.

Given these premises, we can therefore say that the prices for the construction of a prefabricated house in green building are as follows:

• raw construction price: from 600 € / sqm to 800 € / sqm
• advanced raw construction price: from 800 € / sqm to 1,200 € / sqm
• advanced raw construction price with plants: from € 1,000 / sqm to € 1,400 / sqm
• turnkey wooden house construction price : from 1,200 € / sqm to 1,800 € / sqm

These price ranges are obviously only general indications and may vary in increase or decrease depending on the design choices and the choices of finishes.

REQUEST A QUOTE FOR A PREFABRICATED WOODEN HOUSE

To request the prices of a wooden house you can visit the sites of the various manufacturers, look for their catalogs, look for contacts, also find contacts of some designers who are also competent in green building and ask each of them a quote.

Alternatively, you can visit www.immobilgreen.it where there is an entire section dedicated to wooden houses, with a catalog of over 500 models of prefabricated houses and the presence of over 30 of the best Italian manufacturers of prefabricated houses.

On the site Immobilgreen.it you can immediately request the price of construction of the desired model and with a single request form you can contact several manufacturers and also several designers specialized in green building that operate in the required area.

Discovering the cost of a prefabricated house becomes so easy and fast.