Step-by-Step Guide
A ModSpan Kit Home is designed to give you a faster, more flexible path to building, while still allowing you to make important decisions about layout, finishes, services, and upgrades along the way. The process starts with selecting the right model and continues through design confirmation, documentation, site preparation, construction, fit-out, and final completion.
1. Choose the Model
Start by shaping the home around your lifestyle, budget, and block. This is where you choose the right ModSpan model, define the size and layout, and set the direction for the rest of the build.
Find your ideal starting point
Choose the ModSpan design that best suits your site, budget, and the way you want to live, or talk to us about a custom layout tailored to your needs.
Shape the home around you
Decide on the number of bedrooms, the overall footprint, and whether you want features like open-plan living, a mezzanine, a deck, or room to expand later.
Personalise the direction
Decide whether you want to stay close to a standard model or explore a more customised design path from the outset.
Plan with confidence
Start with a realistic budget and identify the upgrades or extras that matter most to you early in the process.
Use our budget planning calculator
When you get in touch with a consultant, we can guide you through a rough calculator that helps map out not just the kit price, but the wider home-building costs as well.
- 1-3
Bedrooms
- N3 / C2
Windrating
- $1,550/m²
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2. Finalise the Design
Once the broad direction is clear, the next step is to refine the details that make the home work properly on your site. Here you confirm the structural, compliance, and external finish choices before anything is ordered.
Refine the vision
Once you have chosen your model, the layout and documentation are prepared for council submission and construction.
Get the technical details right
Confirm structural requirements such as wind rating, footing needs, and any special engineering required for your site conditions.
Choose the look and performance
Select your external finishes, including cladding, roofing, windows, doors, glazing, and insulation options.
Add the finishing touches
Decide on upgrades such as flyscreens, awnings, pergolas, skylights, or double glazing to better suit your home and location.
Move forward with certainty
Final approval and compliance details are confirmed before the kit is ordered, helping avoid costly changes later.
3. Prepare the Site
With the design locked in, attention turns to the block itself and the services that support the home. This stage is about getting the site ready, lining up the trades, and planning the practical essentials like water, waste, power, and access.
Get site-ready
Arrange clearing, levelling, access, slab works, and any required earthworks or footings so your block is ready for construction.
Plan your water system
On Norfolk Island, this includes decisions around rainwater tanks, gutters, downpipes, overflow management, pumps, and filtration.
Organise waste and utilities
Confirm septic or effluent treatment, plumbing, electrical, hot water, and any extra requirements such as solar, gas, or drainage upgrades.
Coordinate local trades
Make sure approvals, contractors, and key services are lined up before the kit arrives on site.
Budget for the full project
Your consultant can use the rough calculator with you to help capture these additional site and service costs early, so you get a more complete picture of the total project budget.
4. Order & Build
When everything is ready, the kit can be ordered and the build can begin. From the structural shell through to the interior finishes, this is the stage where the home comes together and the final details are completed.
Order and deliver the kit
Once everything is confirmed, your ModSpan kit is ordered and freight to Norfolk Island is coordinated.
Build the structure
The frame, roof, cladding, wrap, windows, and doors are assembled to create the weatherproof shell of your home.
Complete the fit-out
Finalise the interior selections, including kitchen, bathroom, laundry, flooring, insulation, lighting, fixtures, and finishes
Manage the final inclusions
Arrange the excluded items and local trades, such as plumbing, electrical, wet-area works, and any chosen upgrades
Step into the finished result
After inspections and final handover, your home is complete and ready to enjoy.
Why Choose ModSpan?
ModSpan offers a practical, modern, and cost-effective alternative to traditional housing. Built with a durable prepunched portal frame steel structure, these homes are designed to deliver strength, flexibility, and efficient construction while still allowing each home to be tailored to the needs of the owner.
One of the main advantages of a ModSpan home is the simple and efficient build process, which can help reduce both construction time and overall project costs. The open clearspan design also allows for flexible layouts, mezzanine options, and spacious living areas with high ceilings and natural light.
ModSpan is particularly well suited to coastal environments such as Norfolk Island, where durability, wind resistance, and low maintenance are important. The result is a home that combines practicality, long-term value, and architectural simplicity.
