Celebrating 20 Years of Excellence

Structural Strength

and Built-in Features

   At Multi-Facetted Homes, we go the extra mile

to incorporate many "hidden" structural "extras" that are not

available in most conventional home construction. 

As to structural strength, wind loading and earthquake resistance, our homes have been engineered to meet the building codes of Guam (typhoon conditions), which far exceed the Hawaii and USA national building codes.   Part of this is due to the wind-resistant shape, and also to a number of extra structural measures of quality, built into every Multi-Facetted Home package.     

Wind-Resistant Shape.   As opposed to the standard recto-linear home shape, our architects (and homeowners) point out that winds will tend to gently wrap around the more round shaped multi-sided homes, whereas with a flat-style roof, winds can tend to grab and lift the roof, like a sail.

1. Hurricane Hardware. All our homes are designed with hidden hurricane straps and hurricane hardware, which are concealed under finished wood trim.  

Here is an example of a Hale-12 skylight being partially trimmed, and before any trim has been applied to the hip rafter joints:  

2.  Framing Members Screwed, Not Nailed.  The Redwood framing of both the wall and roof panels, instead of being nailed, is screwed together with long, 3" coarse-thread, weather-coated, "grabber" screws.  In addition to the life-time quality woods, this adds extra strength and longevity to the security of your home's overall framing integrity.         

3.  Special T&G Milling.  All our Cedar siding is of the "Hawaiian-milled" pattern T&G, which has a long tongue and a deep groove for added weather-tightness. 

 4. Pressurized Siding Application.  In our manufacturing process, we have a technique developed  where each T&G siding piece is squeezed together with 40 lbs of pressure, while it is being applied to the framing members, so that the siding always maintains a very tight fit. 

5. Stainless Steel Ring Shank Siding Nails.  The T&G exterior siding is applied with high-quality  stainless steel ring-shank siding nails, to prevent eventual corrosion-staining of the beautiful exterior woods, and to eliminate the risk of nails working loose over years in the weather -- and this also adds to the shear-strength of the whole structure.

7. Flexibility - for Earthquake and High Wind Conditions.  In addition to the above, because all of the wall and roof framing is screwed together (not nailed) the flexibility is greatly increased, and our homes can flex to extremes which are beyond the tolerances of conventional building systems.   

    After a recent hurricane-wind storm one of our Maui homeowners called us and reported that a very large, dense Eucalyptus tree had crashed down directly onto their Hale-12.  They were happy to find their roof system in perfect shape, and were pleasantly surprised because of the very large size and weight of the tree, which was difficult to have removed.

And...   In addition to all the extra measures we take to assure you the highest in quality of materials and structural workmanship, our panels are also skillfully hand-crafted and inspected for fine furniture quality finish-work.  

Our customers tell us that

being inside a Multi-Facetted home is

"like living inside a piece of fine furniture".  

Feel free to call for an appointment to visit our model homes, where you can see and experience this unmistakable quality for yourself...

We are pleased to offer these excellent homes, not only for their beauty and ease of assembly, but for the added measures of superior quality and workmanship that goes into every Multi-Facetted Home package.

~ Made in Hawaii ~