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VARIO-HAUS Family Compact
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The Family Compact, a panelised wood kit from VARIO-HAUS, is published at $221,460 to $318,270 for the kit and covers 1,130 square feet.
VARIO-HAUS does not publish a wind rating, a snow load or anything about fire 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 VARIO-HAUS 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 | 71 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 5 of 14 build stages |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 100 timber frame or mass timber, once biogenic storage is counted, a lower 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 VARIO-HAUS's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Panelised wood |
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| Structural system | Timber frame prefabrication |
| Finished size | 1,130 sq ft |
| 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 | Austria, Northern Italy, Southern Germany, Switzerland, Hungary |
| Country | Austria |
| Build difficulty | A small crew, no crane Panels or timbers are lifted into place. Most people hire help, but it is not specialist work. 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 | Not published |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$221,460 to $318,270
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 | Three published construction stages: 'bare bone house' (structural shell only) EUR 221,460; 'ready for finishing' (adds flooring, electrical, sanitary, heating) EUR 278,720; 'turnkey house' EUR 318,270. EnergyLine energy-saving building programme included as standard. |
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What else we found
Best published price transparency found in this region. Price list dated valid from 1 May 2026. Family Compact 105 m2 converted to 1130 sqft at 10.7639 sqft/m2. Other published models and turnkey prices: Family Flex Small 108 m2 EUR 335,870; Bungalow Five 68 m2 EUR 258,100; Bungalow Compact Small 91 m2 EUR 294,510; Duplex Trio 62 m2 EUR 182,020; Family Life 152 m2 EUR 414,800; New Design Five 164 m2 EUR 462,980. 'Architects' line models have no published pricing. ships_to_us set to 'no' because the published delivery region list is explicitly limited to five European countries.
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 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?
- 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 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 VARIO-HAUS Family Compact
Answered from what VARIO-HAUS publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the VARIO-HAUS Family Compact cost?
VARIO-HAUS publishes $221,460 to $318,270. Three published construction stages: 'bare bone house' (structural shell only) EUR 221,460; 'ready for finishing' (adds flooring, electrical, sanitary, heating) EUR 278,720; 'turnkey house' EUR 318,270. EnergyLine energy-saving building programme included as standard.
What wind speed is the VARIO-HAUS Family Compact engineered to?
VARIO-HAUS 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 VARIO-HAUS Family Compact roof take?
VARIO-HAUS does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the VARIO-HAUS Family Compact?
Yes. VARIO-HAUS takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the VARIO-HAUS Family Compact need?
VARIO-HAUS 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 VARIO-HAUS Family Compact 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 VARIO-HAUS Family Compact 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 panelised wood kits in the Index
How it compares
It documents more than the average panelised wood kit, 31 percent against 23, and more than 29 of the other 40 we hold.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 41 of them panelised wood. 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.
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| Where these values came from | https://en.variohaus.at/prefabricated-house/price-list/ |
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| Maker's site | https://en.variohaus.at/ |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
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