hi I'm Bill with Phoenix house and we're
a family company this is my sister hello
I'm Kate yeah and together we run
Phoenix house day-to-day we focus on
healthy housing and for us that means we
prefabricate homes off-site in this
facility
yeah so we're doing right now right
around two projects a month so it's
about 24 houses a year at the moment and
we're scaling up from there as well so
we'd look to do more in 2021 and beyond
so h19 was installed within four days
within a week were dried and out of the
weather so they're a nice fast install
the H stands for homestead and the 19
stands for 1,900 square feet so
homestead is just the name that we give
the design platforms and it represents
those values and those values are health
wealth and wholeness so it's something
that's designed to for the lifetime of
that house - you know feature those
elements for that family whoever lives
there got high cost land it's expensive
to build if we can introduce an idea for
the customers that we our main customer
can look at stay a night and experience
I think that they get an opinion that
mothers may be differently to do that
and I think how people live that's
changing slowly but it's still changing
with younger people what they're looking
for either smaller unit units and/or the
fact that they don't necessarily want to
own something that they want to travel
and experience different places and so
if they can rent a really nice living
space and be around like my like-minded
young people yeah I think that's really
exciting for them it starts off at age
10 and it goes to age 30 a couple
different sizes thousand to about three
thousand square feet and that's for the
pre-designed plans but we do also custom
builds mm-hmm and those are really
easily adjustable as well but they're a
great starting point because a lot of
folks just don't know where to start so
if we can show them just a handful of
different plans that helps get back to
and keeps the design cost low which is
really important the straight line shop
so it's raw material in and it's
finished panels back at the back
if we have the eight workstations it's
taking us roughly about an hour hour and
a half to make a panel roughly a house
is about 30 or 40 panels depending on
the size the project over the course of
a month will make that house here a
bigger you know two thousand square foot
house it's called the Alpha system yeah
we give it a name it's nice to describe
it it represents you know it's at a
leader in its industry in the sense of
you know performance and our value these
things and this year we are starting to
offer something called alpha light which
is a variant in a more temperate climate
place from it's quite a bit of years of
prototyping and trial and error and
science and modeling that went into that
system yeah it features an interior
airtight favored control layer we use
the davana tapes that to seal up the
inside that's happening in the
production shop and on-site once the
seams are put together if we go inside
to out the next layer is a two by
dimensional framed wall and our choice
is a dense packed cellulose in the
cavity and then outside of that we like
a fiber board exterior insulation it's
got a decent perm rating on it and
wrapped on top of that it's the Mentos
product a mental 1000 and we do that
same build up inside to out on the roof
as well on the inside it's still that
interior airtight layer with the bonnet
tapes and then sealing up the exterior
with the 3,000 on the roof side outside
of both the roof and the wall is a fir
chase to attach the roofing and
what-have-you and it creates a nice air
gap and so space for that assembly to be
diffusion open we'd like that a lot we
pick specifically those materials from
475 to really feature a knock out system
there's quite a few interior and
exterior focused tapes that we work to
make sure that there's at least two or
three seals on the window to the rough
opening we like to use the gaskets too
it takes you know the gap between the RO
and the unit size and we have the
interior it's a split release tape and
today everyone comment
how nice and sealed everything was we
don't fight yep gasket
we're pre-installing triple-glazed
windows endorsed so we can actually pre
install all the windows and the doors
for the H models we like Alpen makes a
nice PVC window we have a wood aluminum
clad upgrade as well people like to have
a wood interior look yeah so we pre
install those to save time it's the
focus on healthy housing is a big driver
for a lot of our customers that we don't
use bad materials and we really like
using the healthy material like your 475
I would also say that I hear a lot of
feedback from folks is that we can do a
lot of custom designs so modulars are
great but sometimes you're limited on
like to say scale or volumes you can
build with today's tour of h19 we can
create a nice rough structure and make
it look really nice so that the custom
element to the construction process is
really nice yeah it saves about an
average two to three months of
construction time on site I would say a
big thing that we pride ourselves upon
is continuous improvement we're always
finding ways to do it better so always
take feedback from the workshop or the
jobsite and improve the system so it's
continuously being improved and the way
we planned quality is actually in a
process called at work order it's every
time we do work in the shop we make sure
that we follow a sequence so that the
sequence one follow you result in a
really good built product you don't see
every time don't have to double check it
yeah it's just if you build in this
order you'll hit quality our mission is
a lifetime of healthiness so we have
strong opinions on how we want to go
vertical with construction to show
people and offer people an option to
live healthy and the secret mission
really is just making sure that we offer
options for families to build their own
house in a healthy way and that we're
gonna come up with some great options in
the future where we can actually
have that hosted as a company offering
solution so and how they actually live
in that space yeah and we'd love to you
know I really think that it's not just
the United States space solution
I think this grows around the world so
we'll just see where that limit is I
don't think there is one really where
this can grow in scale