Primary reasons are...

Compare building a furtinure or carpentry yourself in your garage, piece by piece and bolt by bolt, to buying a new furniture or a piece of carpentry work built in a ultra modern, high-tech factory building the same.  It would take enormous amount of hours, cost many times more, and the quality, reliability and performance would probably be much lower.  The similar concept of saving time and money by building in factories, rather than “on site,” applies to manufactured homes also.  Compared to "site built or stick built" construction, modular home factories reduce time to build yoru house by using high-tech assembly lines similar to car assembly lines, and they reduce materials costs by purchasing in enormous volumes and not by piece by piece from hoem stores.  The resultant savings, often thousands of dollars per home, they pass along to you, their valued customer.

The time saved is also considerable.  Today's modern assembly plants, Such as CAVCO or FLEETWOOD, can build a manufactured home in as little as three to seven days. There is also cost savings realized by reducing waste.  The assemblers are highly and systematically trained professionals and follow a strict process and procedure to build your homes. If you have ever been to a construction site, you have probably seen dumpsters filled with enough leftovers, scraps and waste to build a large part of another home!  The purchasing of excess materials or wasted time is a huge problem with site-built homes, and most of this excess is never returned or accounted for.  Did all of the materials you paid for end up in your home? No, as you know it did defnitely not...

Savings in time, power of vilume purchasing and waste reduction will equate to huge savings per built home, compared to site built homes.  If you build one car in your garage, the cost woud be way more than the similar cars built by automotive manufacturers on a day to day basis. Unlike a job site, the controlled environmental conditions in the factory also protect the components of your home against weather, better fit for the components, theft and vandalism while under construction.

Are modular homes as well built as site-built homes?

In most cases, better!  Manufactured homes are built from the floor joists or chassis up.  Each sub-assembly of the home is created in a separate part of the factory.  These assemblies are specially designed and assembled to become stronger as each section is connected to the next using a special assembly process that combines bonding, nailing and bolting, a process rarely used in conventional site-built homes.  Some of our manfactured homes have 2x6 studs in the outer walls, while most site-built homes use only 2x4 studs.

Manufactured homes are designed and constructed to withstand long-distance shipment and crane setup, which require more solid construction.  Can you imagine trying to lift a site-built home 20 feet into the air with a crane?  If it stayed together at all, it would more than likely sustain serious structural damage, if not a total collapse.  Site-built homes are just not engineered or constructed with the structural integrity of a modular home.  If you tour one of the factories, or even if you look over one of our information packages, we are sure you will be amazed at how well our modular homes are built.

Will my new modular home be appraised as high as a site-built home?

Yes, most probably. The house has same values.  If you maintain your modular home, it will increase in value every year just like a site-built home of the same design and condition.

For Further information, contact us....

GO BACK HOME