DFB - Modular Homes

s1120 · Feb 4, 2004

Why hello there fellow wedgwood person. Drop me a line I think we have a LOT to talk about.

deerackfarms · Feb 10, 2004

Paul:

Any news from DFB?
I wanted to email him.
Have you seen the Wedgewood Victims website lately?
You should add you photos & the story from Country by Net.

Mike D.

LBrown59 · Jan 3, 2005

( I have driven by a modular home builder many times in my area. I never even gave them a thought for I think of modular as "mobile". I will now go visit their model. Thanks for the recommendation. Regards, Dave "Gatorboy" Hoffmann )
There are only to kinds of homes those that are built at the site and those that are built some where else.

Varmintmist · Jan 3, 2005

I went modular. Structural Modulars out of PA. No problems. I got what I asked for. Speced out a custom 1800sq ft ranch on a hunk of graph paper and they built it. I had to change my basement steps a few times but it wasnt a problem. I figure I saved around 15K over a stick built for what I wanted. I did the plumbing and basement elec., painting, finish drywall, hanging interior doors, mouldings ect. to save more. Spent that on the Superior walls and the radiant heat in the basement and garage and the hardwood for the floors, but I am getting what I want.

I have a buddy that built a Ritzcraft in N Central PA, loved it. BIG colonial, a few dealer problems, not to bad though. They did everything they were supposed to, just a little slow.

He moved (wife got a new job in NH) and they built another modular. I dont know the manufacture though.

Gatorboy · Jan 3, 2005

There are only to kinds of homes ... 

Don't you mean "two"?

vt990 · Jan 6, 2005

LBrown59,

OK, I'll bite.

Do you mean that http://www.ftfishermilrec.com/images/mobile%20home1.JPG

is the same as http://www.huntingtonhomesvt.com/images/p38.jpg

I work in the modular industry, and it drives me nuts the perpetuated confusion between mobile and modular. Mobile homes are built to their own HUD building code. Modular homes are built to the local building code for where the house is being delivered.

Construction aside, modular also gets a bad rap from dealer and owner bad taste (ie aesthetics) Don't condemn the modular building technique for other's bad taste.

cowboydoc · Jan 6, 2005

A good quality modular home is just as good or better than a stick built home. It all depends on the builder in both cases. There are alot of top contractors that are putting in panelized walls now.

LBrown59 · Jan 6, 2005

( There are only to kinds of homes ... 

Don't you mean "two"? )
Right,Two it is!

LBrown59 · Jan 6, 2005

( LBrown59,

OK, I'll bite.

Do you mean that http://www.ftfishermilrec.com/images/mobile%20home1.JPG

is the same as http://www.huntingtonhomesvt.com/images/p38.jpg

I work in the modular industry, and it drives me nuts the perpetuated confusion between mobile and modular. Mobile homes are built to their own HUD building code. Modular homes are built to the local building code for where the house is being delivered.
Construction aside, modular also gets a bad rap from dealer and owner bad taste (ie aesthetics)
*Don't condemn the modular building technique for other's bad taste.
)
Homes are built either on the site or off the site.
As to the pictures you provided ether home can be built on site or off site. Therefore where the home was constructed does not necessarily determine what the end product is.
I am not condemning the Modulars and could have gotten into them also but chose not to due to the price spread.
Some Manufacturers build homes for both codes.

I could set a single unit MH a doublewide MH and a Modular on a piece of property then duplicate each one of them on the site.
Now I have to ask could you look at the 6 homes and tell which one is a single MH a doublewide MH and a modular?
Are there any Site built homes in the mix?
How many were built in a factory? Which ones?

vt990 · Jan 6, 2005

I think we're on the same page here. Anyone can build any end product. However so often the general public associates "questionable" end product with modular, giving it a bad rap. All builders can build "questionable" end product.

Modular is not and "end product", it is a technique of building. Same as balloon framing or steel studs is not and end product, it's a technique.

Sure, lots of modular companies and dealers build questionable end goods and operate in a questionable manor, but ya'll shouldn't bring down the technique because of them.

In this forum I'm probably preaching to the choir, but this issue is on my brain a lot.