![]() This design was used into the 50′s and modified techniques continue today. This new style of construction was called ‘balloon’ studded framing it made possible for fewer, less skilled workers to erect a single wall section. One of the newer building techniques, for example, consisted of the interior walls being constructed from nailed framing of 2×4 pine studs extending from the floor sill plate to the rafters, instead of the heavy timbers that had typically been used which required hand hued mortised tongue and groove connections. Unskilled labor was not an issue due to the simplistic construction design. The builder was occasionally the home buyer with help from willing neighbors but most of the time carpenters were hired. The construction techniques designed by Sears were clearly ahead of its time. ![]() Traditional forms of home building required creating, fashioning, forging or milling the necessary materials to complete the home at considerable expense and time. ![]() This style of construction was extremely efficient and affordable. They were also able to take any individual customer’s design and pre-package the order with all the required items. Sears created hundreds of different floor plans and exteriors. They would design, cut, package and ship, by rail, more than 70,000 homes between 19. ![]() Sears was known for reliability, quality and, convenience.Īround the turn of the century, Sears was entering the catalog Home building business. The catalog contained every necessary item for the house and barn, and when no longer needed, it supplied the outhouse. Almost every rural community in America relied on their highly anticipated thick catalog full of every gadget known to man. In the late 1800′s, Sears and Roebuck was the leading retailer in the home mail order business. But, the prefabricated business of home construction was 50 years old by that time. He certainly took the science to the next level when he was building almost 30 homes per day in the late ’40′s in Levittown. ![]() William Levitt was not the first person or business to use a prefabricated method of home construction. ![]()
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