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 Virtually
every business today is looking for more effective
and efficient ways to create a better-built product
in a timely manner at a more affordable price for
its consumers. Perhaps you have seen preassembled
car doors ready to be hinged to the car frame... or
dash boards with all of their many electrical
components...even steering wheels-and-columns
delivered to a car manufacturer for assembly in the
manufacturing facility. Each of these components has
many parts and is called a SYSTEM. Each is
engineered and assembled with strict attention to
specifications and quality control, then brought to
a central location for the assembly of a completed
automobile for you!
The same is true in building
new homes. Most every traditional site builder today
is purchasing preassembled electrical SYSTEMS,
plumbing SYSTEMS, rafter-and- truss SYSTEMS which
are delivered to a home site where a construction
crew assembles these, along with other components,
to create a new home for you.
A modular homebuilder takes
these same systems and materials used by a
traditional ‘site builder' and assembles your home
in several large sections, called modules, inside a
controlled environment, just like the automotive
industry. These sections are then delivered to your
home site about 90% complete.
Why is a Modular
Home built better?
 Modular homes are built in a
factory environment with the same skilled craftsmen
performing the same job each and every day. These
folks are not learning their job as they are
building your home. Technology as well as
flexible engineering and manufacturing systems are
all brought together to create the home you have
always dreamed of. While your home is being
built in a controlled environment, your materials
and ‘systems' are also kept in a controlled
environment, not left out on the job site to be
‘weathered' or stolen before your home is ever
assembled!
Quality-control inspections
are conducted throughout the building process...not
just at the final walk-through when you are handed
the key to your new home!
Why is a Modular
Home more affordable?
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If
you choose a modular-built home, you will move into
your home sooner than if it is traditional
site-built construction. And TIME IS MONEY. A
modular home is built in about 1/3 the time that a
traditional site-built home would take. Why?
First of all, there are no weather delays when your
home is built in a controlled environment. Modular
home construction continues year around. |
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Modular
homes are computer engineered to meet all national, state
and local building standards. With hundreds of stock
plans to start with, and the ability to computer generate
unlimited variations, the design of your "dream home" is
only limited to your imagination.
Most
modular homes are now built in a modern controlled
environment using high quality materials. They are
precision engineered for a lifetime of trouble-free
structural durability. Quality control is maintained
by constant inspection throughout the construction process.
Next
comes the exterior sheathing, roofing and finished siding.
Somewhere in the midst of all this, the windows and doors,
bath and kitchen fixtures, carpets, cabinets, and heating
units are installed. The completed product is then
wrapped with a protective material for shipping, loaded on
trailers and sent on its way to you. Of course this
is an oversimplified description of the real workmanship and
quality materials that go into each of these homes, but it
gives you a basic idea of the technological advances in the
modular home industry.
