Why Should I Build Modular?
You may have never considered a modular home before. Many people haven't. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't look into one now! Below are some of the benefits to owning a new modular home.
Speed of Construction
Among the most popular benefits of modular construction is quick turnaround between groundbreaking and occupancy. Some owners are able to move into their homes just months after initial contact with their modular home builder. Many custom modular homes are built in just a fraction of the time a comparable custom site-built home could be constructed. For home buyers who prefer to move into their new home sooner rather than later or who live in an area with a shorter building season and fickel weather, modular construction offers a timely solution.Quality Control
One of the greatest advantages to modular construction is control. Building homes in a factory setting allows for more consistent quality due to uniform construction proecsses, training techniques, and inspections.Factory assembly lines have been embraced by Americans for decades because of the efficiency of the process. Modular home manufacturers apply those efficiences to the home building industry. Each worker in the modular plant has been trained to do a particular job and through experience, has become an expert in that one aspect of home construction. In site-built construction, most contractors' employees do a range of jobs from framing to roofing to installing floor covering. They may or may not be skilled to any one home building task, and are instead doing everything.
Modular home buyers can always be assure their home meets or exceeds all state building codes. All modular homes are inspected by an independent, third-party home inspection agency before the home leaves the factory. Once a modular home is erected on-site, it is again inspected, this time by a local building inspector, to ensure that the new home is built with the quality and structural integritiy required in your community.
Cost Control
There are many factors that may make modular homes more cost-effective that site-built homes. Modular home producers are able to purchase materials in bulk and store those materials for a longer amount of time than most conventional builders. When material costs increase, so does the savings of bulk buying.
Modular homes also control home building costs after the modules leave their production facility. Weather delays, which cost both the home builder and buyer time and moeny, are reduced significantly. Also, there is less theft of building materials on a modular construction site; once the home is set on its foundation, it is more complete and secure.
