Mobile homes are now chic?
I’ve been considering selling the house because there is just no need for all the space we have now, and we are getting too old to be doing the maintenance. Some of the current alternatives to trad mobile homes are quite attractive, but I’m a bit concerned about quality/longevity, as we may need the thing to last for 25 years.
Which would be just as bad as a mobile home when a tornado hits.
On energy efficiency, a small, rectangular building shaped more closely to being square is more potentially efficient than a long, skinny building. Also, a hip roof is potentially more resistant to rains and high winds than a gable or shed roof. Such a structure can easily and relatively cheaply be built to a 160 mph wind load (or much more with the right doors, laminated glass, steel shutters and steel over the studs).
Only an argument for conventional framing here except for one more thing. A house plugged into the soil with a shallow, frost-protected slab foundation is also potentially more energy efficient.
And it could be built for about the same cost as a manufactured house of about the same effective roominess and comfort, if the builder actually participates in the work with his hands. It’s sad, that the real builder generations of more honest men are gone with the moving of so much manufacturing to foreign soil.
That place is TINY....absolutely NO storage . Don’t get me wrong I am all about modular built and I am a carpenter by trade (electrical/plumbing/flooring/siding/roofing/windows doors etc... If you really want to do this I house on the cheap buy two or three old cargo ship conatainer’s and set them how you want then constuct what you want....I saw the price and it showed 85 K ..85 thousand for a one bedroom fancy trailer...heh no wheels either !
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LOL. Well Obama did tell us we need to settle for less.
Watched the video. Basically, a "luxury" double wide being marketed on the basis of its "greenness", with its supposed affordability (never heard a $ per square foot mentioned, but had to skip some parts to avoid a projectile vomit) an afterthought. Only genuine Liberals would think environMENTAL is the linchpin on which to hang a marketing campaign. My main thought about the unit they showed would be its outstanding air worthiness in anything over a 60 mph gust.
I have been pricing Modular, not Manufactured Homes for a while. The Basic costs seemed reasonable, but adding the finishing touches added up quick.
A Modular Home is placed on a Foundation. It is trucked in piece by piece and assembled on Site. You use an outside Contractor to prepare the Site, grade, build the Foundation and Assemble the House and the Roof Trusses.
By the time I added it up it was nearing $300 a Square Foot to get a completed Home. That cost didn’t include the Land.
It seemed like a great idea, but it isn’t looking like it will happen.
Sounds more like an excuse to jack up prices for a cheap product.
