Purchase Process

From the Idea Into Reality

2025 Pricing

Prices do not include freight or travel costs

Saunas

• 35,000 – 68,000

This is a complete installed structure including low foundation and tile sauna pan with drain. Both interior and exterior are complete.

Cabins

• $355.00 per square foot for core structure, w/ low foundation and common rafters.
• $390.00 per square foot for core structure, w/ low foundation, and requiring valley rafter framing.

Those numbers are close estimates. Actual cabin price can only be set after a plan has been made, every build has its own set of circumstances that affect the final price.

Off Grid 12 Volt Electrical System

• $18,000 – $35,000.

Composters

• $16,500

This is a stand alone structure with covered stairs and porch, installed ready for use and provided with compost material for a while.

Step 1: Connect and Discover

Once you’ve decided a COVE Alaska structure might be right for you, the first step is to determine the shape of the home, how it fits on your site, and the desired square feet. We need to consider the layout, the interior and exterior flow, discuss design goals, site logistics and a timeframe for the job.

Step 2: Exploration

This step is onsite at your location. We will need to determine the build site. Here, we solidify the design, orientation and look at the logistics for your build and how the structure will get installed at site. 

This stage is billed out at 100.00 per hour plus transportation at a 500.00 minimum. The information and consulting will be valuable information and there is no commitment by either party at this stage.

Step 3: Putting Ideas to Paper

From the information gathered we can draft the project, review and make changes, create a detailed list of what finishing details COVE Alaska will provide.  We create a final price, timeline, and contract. 

Activating a contract requires 70% of the bid price. The remaining 30% to be deposited into an escrow account for release upon the fulfillment of the contract.

Step 4: Foundation

Time to build. The first onsite step is to go in with crew and materials for the scaffolding used to define the exact location of the foundation and prepare the site for receiving the pre fabricated structure.  This visit includes installing the piling foundation.  We aim for warm days during good weather for this step.

Once the foundation scaffolding frame goes up this is the optimum time up for one more opportunity to better visualize the structure and last opportunity to make changes.

It is difficult to stand in an untouched location, especially one on an incline or high off the ground, and really visualize where a building will actually exist in open space. Our scaffold style defines exactly the perimeter of the structure a couple feet below your actual floor.

We place temporary planks where we can now walk around your projected floor plan and “look” out your projected openings. We use measured sticks to allow a client to see what the views will be and check the actual clearances of the building and overhangs when it is designed to fit within a confined space. We often find that the building is off on the orientation and might need to rotate a few degrees, slide a foot or 2 in various directions or an additional tree needs to be removed. All of this is easily shifted during the scaffold stage before locking down the final location.

After shifting around the foot print and making any layout changes everything now becomes locked in place and the routine begins with setting foundation posts, permanent bracing and preparing the post tops to receive the sill timber of the structure when it arrives on the next trip in.

This method ensures we get a correct fit to the location and gives one last opportunity for minor changes to the plan and speeds the installation when the time comes.

Step 5: Build

Everything is now set and we are doing what we do best. Pre fabrication of your COVE Alaska structure

Step 5 is done in the shop typically during late fall, winter and spring, leaving the good summer months for foundations and installations. We prestack the frame without fasteners in the yard covered in roofing tin awaiting the time to disassemble and send the package on its way.

During this time we assemble and package everything needed to bring the structure to what is outlined in the contract. We always aim to carefully inventory everything we might need before going into the field to avoid missing any component.

Step 6: Delivery

Now we get your load to your site, whatever it takes. This includes the building, what we need to finish the building, food, crew, tools and base camp logistics.

Step 7: Installation

This is instant gratification week. If all goes as planned there will be a completed homestead cabin within 1-2 weeks upon arrival in the field during the installation season. Our goal is to assemble the whole building, complete with chimney and wood stove in one trip. Depending on the Alaska factor and real life events this often requires a follow up trip shortly after the first to finish the contract. Full build outs with cabinets, electrical and amenities often require a third or even 4th trip.

Our goal is always to complete the project with minimal field time during the installation phase. The transportation costs of getting back to your site on follow up trips is not included in the original bid price and will be billed to the homeowner, however the work to be done and materials needed is still included in the bid price.

Step 8: Clean Up and Close Out

We leave your site as natural and tidy and remaining materials stacked and stowed as well as possible, giving the appearance that your heirloom legacy cabin has always been a part of the landscape.

We review the contract, release the remaining funds and talk about the perceptions and experience of the project, discussing the wins and where improvements could be made.