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Do modular homes vs. stick-built have a stigma attached to them for resale? Do you believe they are as solid as stick-built homes? One obviously can't watch or monitor the construction in a factory. Are they able to put in any type of heating (natural gas where there's a line, of course) as well as central air? Any thoughts and/or experiences of yours would be greatly appreciated.
Do modular homes vs. stick-built have a stigma attached to them for resale? Do you believe they are as solid as stick-built homes? One obviously can't watch or monitor the construction in a factory. Are they able to put in any type of heating (natural gas where there's a line, of course) as well as central air? Any thoughts and/or experiences of yours would be greatly appreciated.
Modular homes are built to a higher standard than stick built.
I actually though about one of those for my mother. She is living in a 2-story row home in NE Philly and is getting too old to be that far and it's falling apart. She wont get anything if she can sell it at all, and a modular seemed like a good alternative. My only concern is what the people are like who live there, she couldn't take kids running all around or anything.
Modular homes are designed and built primarily in a way that they can be transported. Some of the design is limited to allow for the additional structural support needed to make it mobile, and the layout necessary to accomodate the trailers. Also material grades are usually compromised for the additional cost associated with making it transportable. To answer the OP's question, yes you may have central air and a you could run gas to it.
Are you thinking of "Mobile" homes? That's different than "Modular homes."
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Originally Posted by ocnjgirl
I actually though about one of those for my mother. She is living in a 2-story row home in NE Philly and is getting too old to be that far and it's falling apart. She wont get anything if she can sell it at all, and a modular seemed like a good alternative. My only concern is what the people are like who live there, she couldn't take kids running all around or anything.
Someone told me modular homes were built pretty strong to handle transport. Sergio, what material grades would be compromised?
Material grades such as hem fir or yellow pine as opposed to douglas fir framing. OSB exterior sheathing instead of DF. Although you can choose what type of windows and interior trim packages, most I've seen, go with the vinyl windows and basic trim. Truth be told,they are cheaply built with extra effort put in to make them transportable, and lifted (by crane) into place then bolted together.
A stick built home has more flexibility in the layout, and is built in place to stay there.
Material grades such as hem fir or yellow pine as opposed to douglas fir framing. OSB exterior sheathing instead of DF. Although you can choose what type of windows and interior trim packages, most I've seen, go with the vinyl windows and basic trim. Truth be told,they are cheaply built with extra effort put in to make them transportable, and lifted (by crane) into place then bolted together.
A stick built home has more flexibility in the layout, and is built in place to stay there.
Thanks for your responses. I am a bit uneasy about the resale value which is why I asked about the "stigma." There's one which I've been looking at online which seems very suitable...but it's been on the market a LONG time; didn't know if it was the bad market or the fact that it's listed as a modular home.
Modular homes are a crap-shoot. Get one from a good company, with a good design, built on a good day, and you're apt to have an extremely good house.
On the other hand...
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