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Boréal (Boreal Kits)
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Boréal (Boreal Kits) is published at $41,685 to $225,403 for the kit.
Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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.
Free, and it stays free.
Against our own kit
The owner of this site makes a kit home too. Rather than hide that at the bottom of a policy page, here it is at the top of every kit page, on published data only, with the same eight questions in the same order every time. Where a maker publishes nothing, this says so instead of guessing.
| Boréal (Boreal Kits) | The Octolithic ours | |
|---|---|---|
| Can you order one today? | Yes | No |
| Published price | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Size | Not published | 400 sq ft |
| Design wind speed | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Snow load | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Wall R value | 30 | R-19.3 for the finished exterior wall. One panel, one thickness, no options: a 5 inch core, 7 and three quarter inches finished, with 1 inch of structural mortar on each face. Tested on the … |
| Foundation | Not published | Two options, and they are not an upgrade path, they are a question about the lot. On a slab at grade, or raised on its own eight sided garage story with a structural elevated floor. In a FEM… |
| Where it ships | Quebec and Ontario are named as served; a 'United States' option appears in the contact/region form | Florida only. The engineering stamp is state specific. |
We publish 2 of these 5 measurable figures and Boréal (Boreal Kits) publishes 1. That is a gap in what they publish, not evidence that ours performs better. We publish no design wind speed and no snow load, which are the two figures that decide whether any kit can be permitted on a given lot, so on the numbers that matter most we cannot yet prove anything. A blank is a maker who has not published a figure, and it is not a fail. How this conflict is handled.
The Octolithic Kit Grade
| Buyability weight 25 | 92 takes orders today, publishes a price, delivers to a stated region |
|---|---|
| Cost honesty weight 25 | 66 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 4 of 14 build stages |
| 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits)'s own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Panelised wood |
|---|---|
| Structural system | 'Thermolog' patented system - solid white pine inside and out with high-performance insulation built into the core; walls CNC-cut for assembly |
| Finished size | Not published |
| Bedrooms | Not published |
| Bathrooms | Not published |
| Wall R value | 30 |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Not published |
| Lead time | Not published |
| Delivers to | Quebec and Ontario are named as served; a 'United States' option appears in the contact/region form |
| Country | Canada |
| 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
$41,685 to $225,403
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 | Kits include wall structure, mezzanine structure and roof structure plus exterior shell components (walls, windows, roof, doors). Buyer completes the interior. |
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What else we found
Two Quebec offices confirmed at https://www.borealkits.com/contact/ : 1640 av. de la Technologie, Alma QC and 1275 rue Principale, Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford QC. Price ranges by series: Concept (compact) $41,685-$97,500; Colonia (single-slope roof) $100,360-$225,403; Riviera (double-slope roof) $121,902-$195,585. CURRENCY: the site shows '$' with no currency code and the contact page does not state currency - almost certainly CAD given the Quebec base, but I did not see it published, so null. ships_to_us set to 'unknown' because the only US signal is a 'United States' entry in a region dropdown, not a delivery statement. R30 is published as a blanket figure across models; roof/floor values not broken out.
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 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits)
Answered from what Boréal (Boreal Kits) publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Boréal (Boreal Kits) cost?
Boréal (Boreal Kits) publishes $41,685 to $225,403. Kits include wall structure, mezzanine structure and roof structure plus exterior shell components (walls, windows, roof, doors). Buyer completes the interior.
What wind speed is the Boréal (Boreal Kits) engineered to?
Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits) roof take?
Boréal (Boreal Kits) does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Boréal (Boreal Kits)?
Yes. Boréal (Boreal Kits) takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Boréal (Boreal Kits) need?
Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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 Boréal (Boreal Kits) 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 Octolithic 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.
Compare
Nothing here is ranked by what anyone pays us, because no kit maker has ever paid for placement on this site.
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 515 kit homes in the Index, 41 of them panelised wood. Recomputed on every build.
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://www.borealkits.com/ |
|---|---|
| Maker's site | https://www.borealkits.com |
| Last checked | 09 October 2026 |
Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, use the contact form 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.