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22’ Eco Pod Cottage Dome Kit Sale Price $14,999 - Regular Price $20,595 Need a cost efficient one bedroom/one bath compact home? Consider the American Ingenuity Eco Pod Cottage kit consisting of a 22’ dome kit with a 12’ Pod Kit featuring five foot tall risers. Sale price is $14,999 if you allow American Ingenuity to select the month/week of shipment. If Buyer selects the shipment date add $645 to the kit pricing. The regular price is $20,595. The five foot tall risers allow for an extra 46 sq.ft. in your optional attic. The pod increases your first floor square footage by 109 sq.ft. When finished the first floor can have 497 sq.ft. with an optional attic of 127 sq.ft. for a total of 624 sq.ft. Pricing includes two sets of Building Plans (value $820), Assembly Manual and two dome kits. The 22’ kit consists of all the component prefab panels to assemble the shell of the 22’ dome along with two entryways and five foot tall risers. The 12 foot in diameter Pod kit consists of 2” EPS (R-8) panels, two entryways and five foot tall risers. Also included are misc items. Add shipping costs. Call American Ingenuity (321-639-8777) with your zip code to confirm your shipping cost. Engineer seal is not included on the plans. Approximate room sizes: Bedroom 16'9" x 10'4"; closet 2' 6" x 5'3"; living 7'1" x 7'2"; kitchen 10'2" x 9'5"; Bath 11'6"x11'6". Approximate second floor area between five feet six inches and seven feet ten inches in height is 109 sq.ft. Each of the 22’ prefab panel’s core is 7" EPS (expanded bead polystyrene) R-28 insulation precisely angle cut to form the geodesic shape. The exterior of the EPS is pre-finished with one half inch to three quarter inch concrete, reinforced with galvanized steel mesh and fibers. Applied to the interior is quarter inch Georgia Pacific wallboard. No wood in or on the shell to rot or for termites to eat or to burn. No shingles to blow off in high winds. Exterior concrete is primed and painted with latex paint. The 22’ kit comes with 225 mph hurricane wind and category 4 tornado guarantee. The 12’ Pod consists of all the 2” eps (R-8) panels for the Pod shell, panels for two entryways and five foot tall risers. After the Pod is assembled, apply concrete to the exterior and interior surface of the EPS. For greater Pod strength affix ¼”x ¼” galvanized steel mesh and #8 wire to the 2” eps before apply ½” concrete. American Ingenuity sells an accessory package which includes the steel mesh, #8 galvanized wire and C’rings used to strengthen the Pod for $190. The pod does not come with the hurricane and tornado guarantee. The kit assemblies begin after the foundation and floor are completed. The 22’ assembly process consists of stacking the panels in place, overlapping and locking the steel mesh of adjacent panels and filling the seams with special formulated concrete. Finish the wall board seams with cement/perlite mixture. This process produces the structural components, completes the finished exterior surface, installs the insulation and all the interior shell wallboard. To view a video of the 22' assembly, please click on Assembly. The entryways allow you to customize your home with your choice of locally purchased windows and doors. The concrete applied to the Pod and the concrete that is applied to the 22’ dome’s seams and entryways is sponge finished to match the pre-finished texture of the 22’ prefab panels. On site, the concrete is primed with concrete primer and then painted with two coats of satin latex house paint to achieve the color you desire. Assemble the Pod’s EPS panels by rows, attaching them to your prepared foundation and to one another with nails and adhesive. Install 2X4 P.T. doorway framing and install your own 6'x6' (max) door, window or vents to suit. Coat the entire exterior with a 1/4" layer of concrete (1/2” concrete if you strengthen the pod with ¼”x ¼” mesh & #8 wire), then paint with concrete primer and Latex paint. Finish the interior with joint compound, plaster or stucco. The Ai dome kit is a true Do-it-Yourself Kit. All panels are premarked with numbers and letters to match the building plans and the Assembly Manual. Of if you desire to hire a builder, he can hire the Kit Assembly Specialist to supervise his workers to get the dome kit assembled with the first layer of concrete in the seams and on the entryways and dormers. To view Ai’s web site file about the independent Assembly Specialist, click on Specialist. Prior to assembly of the 22’ dome kit, a temporary wooden rib system is assembled using your own 2x4’s cut to specific lengths and steel hubs/bolts/nuts/washers borrowed from American Ingenuity by placing an $455 deposit. This deposit covers a 4 month rental period ($20 a month thereafter). Once the dome kit is assembled the rib system is removed with the client mailing the hubs back to Ai to receive a deposit refund. Triangle Panels weight 155 to 180 lbs. Risers weight 255 lbs. During assembly the panels are placed using some type of hoisting mechanism. Lifting spikes are purchased from Ai for $100. To view American Ingenuity’s web site file that explains the rib system, please click on Support System. Please contact your building department and ask:
22’ Eco Pod Cottage Building Kit Package Contents and what is not included:
Payments: American Ingenuity kits are not stocked and are manufactured on a custom order basis and are considered a Specialized Order, made exclusively for the customer requesting it. These Specialized Orders require a 30% deposit, signed Order Form, Conditions of Sale and Specialized Material Agreement. Once Ai receives these items, materials will be purchased and manufacturing started to meet your shipment date. If you cancel your order after signing the Specialized Agreement all payments or deposits are nonrefundable and your rights to the kit(s) are forfeited. Screen Dome Order require a 50% deposit. The balance, in the form of a cashier's check is due 14 days prior to shipment. Florida residents, add sales tax plus your counties' surtax. Credit Cards are not accepted. If the building kit is shipped out of Florida, you do not pay Florida sales tax. Delivery and Availability: Once Ai receives your 30% deposit based on your Building Kit with options pricing and signed Building Kit Order Form, Conditions of Sale and Specialized Material Agreement, American Ingenuity schedules your kit for manufacturing. Allow eight to sixteen weeks for manufacturing time. Shipping: Shipping is scheduled after Ai receives the final payment. One step deck semi-truck can carry one 30', one 36', one 40', one 45', one 48' kit (with 7" EPS), possibly two 27' kits, or two 22' kits. A 60' kit requires two semi-trucks. American Ingenuity can coordinate the USA shipping. International clients coordinate their own shipping using a freight forwarder. To learn about importing American Ingenuity's dome kit, please click on Importing. The number of kits one truck can carry can change if the building kit contains four or five entryways, a link and thicker insulation. For example a 48' kit with 9" EPS cannot fit on one semi-truck. Entryways and a link take up more space than triangular and riser panels. Once you select your floor plan, Ai can be specific about how many truck(s) your order will take. Each International client hires a freight forwarder to coordinate their container’s shipping and pays their shipping and custom fees directly to the freight forwarder. Ai’s manufacturing costs in Florida are well below the national average, which offsets any long distance shipping expenses. Ai can actually manufacture a kit here in Florida and ship it to Washington state cheaper than we could manufacture it there. Having our manufacturing plant located in Florida is advantageous for shipping since more is shipped in than out of the state, leaving many trucks headed out empty. Ai utilizes independent trucking agencies. American Ingenuity contracts to have these trucks carry your building kit outside Florida for approximately $2.50 per mile per truck from Ai's plant in Rockledge, Florida. Shipping within Florida is a minimum of $800. If your Florida building site is south of our factory, the truckers charge more because they have to drive south before they can drive north to leave Florida. These trucking costs are less than Ai could do with our own trucks because if we used our own trucks, they would have to deliver the kit and return to our factory empty. Shipping costs are paid to American Ingenuity 10-14 days prior to the scheduled shipment date with a bank check. Per mile shipping costs can vary due to fuel costs and travel distances. Click on Shipping to learn more. American Ingenuity's Philosophy: One of the main reasons American Ingenuity is very reputable is that we really try to treat all our customers the same. Our business philosophy and product is unique to the housing industry. Ai believes that each client should pay for only what they need.
As a result of the above philosophy, the American Ingenuity dome shell kit costs about one half less than the shell materials cost for a conventional house or wooden dome or sprayed concrete dome.
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