Modular Home - The Systems-Built Advantage
April 24, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Modular HomeA system-built house is more innovating than what generally indicated under the name of a modular home. If you ask an owner at the home system-builds what she likes better about her house, the chances are you will obtain a long list of answers. “I tend to praise me our low costs of service,” said Marsha Wilkerson de Kearney, Nebr. “our invoices of service were cut inside to half since we entered our system-built house two years ago. We save above one hundred dollars in a month-equal means although our new home is larger and we have more apparatuses.”
Wilkerson attributes her low energy costs to the 2×6 construction of the house. “You don’t normally find site-built houses with an R-23 insulation value in exterior walls.”
With the difference of their close-relative, the site-built home (also called stick-built), the system-built homes (modular homes) are established in a factory under a climate-ordered environment and then moved with the site at the home. They are built after the codes which meet-and of the codes of building often exceed-rooms. Once on the site they are attached to a permanent base. This point on top can be difficult to say a system-built home of a site-built home. They also qualify for the same mortgages and have the values similar of evaluation to the site-built homes. Since the system-built homes must resist the rigors to move factory at the place, often hundreds of miles, they are machines to be particularly strong.
“Pretty much anything you can build in a site-built home, you can do with systems-built home,” said Ken Drahota of eastern Colorado. “We were surprised. We took our hand-scribbled floor plan to the manufacturer and asked if they had a house like it in their plan book. He said, ‘it doesn’t matter-we can build your plan.’”
“I liked the fact that we selected all of our options up-front. Wardcraft really took time to make sure we had our house plan exactly the way we wanted it before building. They worked with us to customize our kitchen cabinets, our bathroom fixtures, our window choices, everything. Because of that, we stayed on budget and on time,” said Drahota.
Often, a systems-built home can be built in a shorter time-frame than a stick-built home. “You can work on the foundation and the house simultaneously,” said Mark Weller, plant manager for Wardcraft in Minden, Nebr. “We have each house on a schedule and we don’t use subcontractors-they are all employees. So we don’t hold up a house for weeks while we wait on one person to finish a particular job. Most houses are ready to be moved to the site within eight weeks of the day it starts on the line.”
The climate-controlled environment has additional benefits, particularly in the Midwest where winter can hinder the building season. “I was horrified to drive around our community and see ice and snow accumulate on the site-built houses that were under construction. With all you hear about mold these days, it can’t be good for the lumber to get that wet,” Wilkerson said.
Rain and snow can also cause lumber to warp. With systems-built homes, they are built indoors, so their walls are straight and true. Another advantage of indoor construction is security. Construction theft is becoming an increasing problem at new home sites as building materials become more expensive. Unfortunately the cost of such theft is often passed on to the homeowner. By building inside the walls of a secure factory, theft or vandalism is rare. The homes are moved to the site only after they are weathertight and have locking doors.
Building waste is also disposed of easily in a factory setting. Weller said, “you won’t find scraps of drywall in your heating ducts and you certainly won’t find it in your lawn-we are careful to dispose of all excess building material properly.”
“Our goal is to provide the best-built house at a competitive price and to continue to break the mold on design options,” Weller said. “We can build two-stories, 1½ stories and very large, elegant homes within the walls of our factory. Once they are put together and finished, the only difference you’ll notice is a very satisfied homeowner.”
Good vs. Superior
Customers often make the mistake of comparing good site-built homes to the best systems-built homes and concluding that because the price is similar there is no advantage. When the best systems-built homes are compared to the same quality site-built homes the difference in price is substantial.
“Nobody could offer to us what we wanted for anywhere close to the price that Wardcraft could. By comparing nuts and bolts, the contractors could not give us to a better quality at their extra costs, “known as the purchasers at the Mike house and Linda Bodenhausen. After a potential purchaser at the house voyage a system-built house or service of production “I wonder why no matter who would buy a house site-built today,” said Steve Snyder, executive director of the modular association of systems of building. For more articles on Wardcraft the houses satisfy the click on the bonds with the top of this page. Constructions of Wardcraft system- built the modular home in Co, the KS, it, the WY and the parts of the MONTH and the standard deviation. Take with an excursion 6 days per week with one of our equipment of production. Click on the places button themselves below for places, hours and directions.
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