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Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150
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The Trio 150, an a-frame kit from Avrame (AvrameUSA), is published at $69,700 for the kit, covers 1,600 square feet, is engineered to 120 mph wind and carries 150 psf of roof snow load.
Avrame (AvrameUSA) does not publish anything about fire for this model, so 31 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
69 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Avrame (AvrameUSA) 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 | 100 takes orders today, publishes a price, lead time 8 weeks, nationwide delivery |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 71 publishes a price, itemises 5 of 14 build stages, states plainly what the price excludes |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 80 light wood framing, a lower to middle 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 Avrame (AvrameUSA)'s own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | A-frame |
|---|---|
| Structural system | Engineered LVL A-frame truss system with wood-framed dormers/gable walls |
| Finished size | 1,600 sq ft |
| Bedrooms | 3-4 |
| Bathrooms | 2 |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Crawl space (standard); basement (custom upgrade, +$1,500-$2,500); pier/post foundation only via separate third-party engineer. Slab and strip-footing not offered. |
| Lead time | 8 weeks |
| Delivers to | nationwide |
| Country | United States |
| Build difficulty | Hand tools and helpers Assembled from parts by hand. Slow rather than technical. 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 | 120 mph |
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| Roof snow capability | 150 psf |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$69,700
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 | Structural kit only: engineered LVL trusses, pre-cut/pre-drilled framing lumber, custom steel hardware, stamped structural drawings. Excludes foundation, wall/roof enclosure (shell), MEP, and interior finishes. |
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What else we found
Smaller Duo models start at $22,675 (Duo 57, 300 sqft) up to $34,025 (Duo 120, 600 sqft); Solo series also available. IMPORTANT: third-party sites (Prefab Review) publish much higher 'all-in turnkey' cost estimates (e.g. ~$542,300 for a Trio-150-sized home) that are unrelated planning estimates, not AvrameUSA's kit price, do not confuse the two. Wind/snow ratings and foundation rules sourced from separate FAQ/spec pages.
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 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?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 69 percent.
Questions people ask about the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150
Answered from what Avrame (AvrameUSA) publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 cost?
Avrame (AvrameUSA) publishes $69,700. Structural kit only: engineered LVL trusses, pre-cut/pre-drilled framing lumber, custom steel hardware, stamped structural drawings. Excludes foundation, wall/roof enclosure (shell), MEP, and interior finishes.
What wind speed is the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 engineered to?
Avrame (AvrameUSA) publishes 120 mph for this model. That is their design capability at the conditions they assume, not a rating of your house. Your required design wind speed depends on your address, your Risk Category and your Exposure Category.
What snow load can the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 roof take?
Avrame (AvrameUSA) publishes 150 psf for this model. Check whether that is a ground snow load or a roof load, because they are different numbers and makers are not consistent about which one they quote.
Can you actually buy the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150?
Yes. Avrame (AvrameUSA) takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 need?
Avrame (AvrameUSA) publishes: Crawl space (standard); basement (custom upgrade, +$1,500-$2,500); pier/post foundation only via separate third-party engineer. Slab and strip-footing not offered.
How well does the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 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, that is a 120 mph design wind speed.
Will the Avrame (AvrameUSA) Trio 150 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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Other a-frame kits in the Index
How it compares
It documents more than the average a-frame kit, 69 percent against 31, and more than every other a-frame kit we hold. Publishing a design wind speed puts it in the 7 percent of a-frame makers that do. Against the 11 a-frame kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 7 of them, and the middle of that group is $45,000.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 15 of them a-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 4
What buyers and reviewers reported
In the news 2
Reported by news outlets and trade press
Owner discussion 1
Build threads and owner forums
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://www.avrameusa.com/product/the-trio/ |
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| Maker's site | https://www.avrameusa.com/ |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, write to hello@kithomefinder.com and we will recheck it and re-cite it. Members can dispute any figure on the page, and the dispute and its resolution are both published.
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