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Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36)
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The Small Cape Home (24x36), a timber frame kit from Vermont Frames, is published at $153,000 to $185,000 for the kit.
Vermont Frames does not publish a wind rating, a snow load or anything about fire for this model, so 69 percent of the fields we score are blank.
None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.
Completeness
31 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Vermont Frames published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.
The thing nobody else will tell you
This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.
Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.
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The Kit Home Finder Grade
| Buyability weight 25 | 92 takes orders today, publishes a price, delivers to a stated region |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 86 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 5 of 14 build stages, states plainly what the price excludes |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 100 timber frame or mass timber, once biogenic storage is counted, a lower embodied carbon class |
Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.
What the maker publishes
Everything here came off Vermont Frames's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Timber frame |
|---|---|
| Structural system | Timber frame with SIP (EPS or GPS core) wall/roof panels |
| Finished size | Not published |
| Bedrooms | Not published |
| Bathrooms | Not published |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | By others (not included in kit) |
| Lead time | Not published |
| Delivers to | Northeast-focused (VT/NY and surrounding region); company notes kits can ship outside this territory |
| Country | United States |
| Build difficulty | A small crew, no crane Panels or timbers are lifted into place. Most people hire help, but it is not specialist work. Read from the construction method. |
What the maker says it resists
Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.
| Engineered wind speed | Not published |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$153,000 to $185,000
This is the number the maker publishes. What it covers is in the line below, and it is almost never the finished cost of a house.
| What that number covers | Frame design/engineering, pre-cut labeled timbers, timber frame + SIP installation (base price); higher figure adds exterior timber elements. Foundation is explicitly 'by others' (not included). |
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What else we found
Company explicitly warns that 'clients in other regions of the US and Canada may find their regional building costs vary substantially' from these Northeast-based figures.
Questions to send this maker
Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.
- What design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
- What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
- What is the roof assembly's fire classification, and are the vents ember resistant?
- What Seismic Design Category will you engineer this model to, and is that included or a paid upgrade?
- What is the wall R value, and is that nominal insulation or a tested whole assembly value including thermal bridging?
- What is the roof R value, and is it nominal or whole assembly?
- What is the finished square footage of this model?
- What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 31 percent.
Questions people ask about the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36)
Answered from what Vermont Frames publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) cost?
Vermont Frames publishes $153,000 to $185,000. Frame design/engineering, pre-cut labeled timbers, timber frame + SIP installation (base price); higher figure adds exterior timber elements. Foundation is explicitly 'by others' (not included).
What wind speed is the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) engineered to?
Vermont Frames does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.
What snow load can the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) roof take?
Vermont Frames does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36)?
Yes. Vermont Frames takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) need?
Vermont Frames publishes: By others (not included in kit)
How well does the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?
The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, they publish nothing at all.
Will the Vermont Frames Small Cape Home (24x36) work on my land?
Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Kit Home Finder runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.
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Documented38%How it compares
It documents more than the average timber frame kit, 31 percent against 25, and more than 26 of the other 38 we hold. Against the 5 timber frame kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 0 of them, and the middle of that group is $350,000.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 39 of them timber frame. Recomputed on every build.
News, reviews and video
Gathered from outside this site and linked so you can check it yourself. None of it moves the Kit Home Finder Grade, and that is deliberate: the grade is computed only from what the maker publishes, so anyone can recompute it by hand. The grade tells you what they will tell you. This tells you what happened to people who bought one.
Reviews 1
What buyers and reviewers reported
In the news 1
Reported by news outlets and trade press
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://vermontframes.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Maker's site | https://vermontframes.com/ |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
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