Why Build Modular?
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This article highlights several important reasons why a home buyer should choose to build their new home with modular construction and why modular housing is superior to site built housing.
- The Factory Advantage: On the modular factory's assembly line, materials are organized for greatest efficiency and quality control. The modular factory system combines engineering know-how and factory-production methods to design and build more efficiently and with greater quality...
- The Modular Advantage in Quality: Many consumers assume that the primary advantage of modular technology is lower prices. That is only the third most important reason...
- The Modular Advantage in Time: Building a modular home will normally save you time compared with building a conventional stick-framed house. Saving time on construction not only saves money, it also reduces the stress involved in home building...
- The Modular Advantage in Cost: Manufacturers of modular homes are usually able to build new house plans more affordably than custom stick builders, for the same kinds of reasons that automobile manufacturers are able to build a new car for far less than a mechanic could build the same car in his garage...
- Modular Advantage in Planning Discipline: Building a modular home compels the customer and the dealer to complete most, if not all, of the planning steps before beginning construction. That is because the manufacturer cannot begin construction without knowing what it is going to build and how much it is going to charge...
- Modular Advantage for Do-It-Yourselfers: This article does not encourage you to take the do-it-yourself route. In fact, it strongly recommends hiring a professional GC with modular experience. If you are going to take the leap, however, modular construction is a much better way to act as your own GC while building your first home than stick building, primarily because there is less work to do and it is more defined and manageable...
- Modular Opportunities in Design and Amenities: In the late 1970s, modular homes had the reputation of being affordable, as long as you were satisfied with mediocre finish quality and limited design choices. Today, modular homes are still affordable, but with first-rate quality and a wide selection of creative designs...
