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PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath
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The Blackheath, a steel frame kit from PAAL Kit Homes, is published at $148,200 to $220,630 for the kit.
PAAL Kit Homes does not publish a wind rating or a snow load for this model, so 69 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
31 percent of the fields we score are backed by something PAAL Kit Homes 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 | 92 takes orders today, publishes a price, delivers to a stated region |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 50 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 1 of 14 build stages |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 40 new steel framing, a higher 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 PAAL Kit Homes's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Steel frame |
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| Structural system | Steel frame kit home; homepage states the steel framing system is made from 100% Australian BlueScope steel and was tested for steel frame strength by the CSIRO |
| Finished size | Not published |
| Bedrooms | Not published |
| Bathrooms | Not published |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Not published |
| Lead time | Not published |
| Delivers to | Footer states 'Delivering steel frame kit homes Australia wide'; display centres/sales offices in NSW (Emu Plains), QLD (Caboolture South), VIC (Bayswater Nth) and ACT (Canberra) |
| Country | Australia |
| Build difficulty | Not published This maker publishes nothing about who erects it, and the structural system does not settle it either. Ask them who does the assembly, whether a crane is needed, and how many people for how long. |
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 | Not published |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Site has a dedicated 'Bushfire BAL Ratings' section (https://www.paalkithomes.com.au/building-in-bushfire-area/); no specific BAL number published on the pages I read |
Price
$148,200 to $220,630
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 | Prices are for supply of the full home kit as detailed in the company's INCLUSIONS list. All prices INCLUDE GST. |
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What else we found
Price range shown is the lowest and highest named designs on the price page I read (The Blackheath $148,200 to The Barrington $220,630). No floor areas were published on that price page, so sqft is null. 'Up to 70% savings' and 'anyone can build' are marketing claims, not specifications. Owner-builder oriented: they sell the kit, you or your builder erect it.
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 design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
- What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
- What Seismic Design Category will you engineer this model to, and is that included or a paid upgrade?
- Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
- 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?
- What is the finished square footage of this model?
- What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 31 percent.
Questions people ask about the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath
Answered from what PAAL Kit Homes publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath cost?
PAAL Kit Homes publishes $148,200 to $220,630. Prices are for supply of the full home kit as detailed in the company's INCLUSIONS list. All prices INCLUDE GST.
What wind speed is the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath engineered to?
PAAL Kit Homes does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.
What snow load can the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath roof take?
PAAL Kit Homes does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath?
Yes. PAAL Kit Homes takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath need?
PAAL Kit Homes does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.
How well does the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath 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, they publish nothing at all.
Will the PAAL Kit Homes The Blackheath 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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It documents more than the average steel frame kit, 31 percent against 23, and more than 19 of the other 31 we hold. Against the 4 steel frame kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 3 of them, and the middle of that group is A$100,010 AUD. Makers in Australia publish something about fire far more often than the Index as a whole, 24 percent of the 17 we hold there, usually because their building rules ask for it.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 32 of them steel frame. Recomputed on every build.
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://www.paalkithomes.com.au/about/kit-homes-prices.php |
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| Maker's site | https://www.paalkithomes.com.au/ |
| 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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