Phone: 540-660-0525
Virginia Class A Licensed Building Contractor
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Mike Fusco Builder
Strasburg, VA
United States
ph: 540-660-0525
mikefusc
Modular Advantages
Modular Advantages
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First Point is: My stick building costs are more expensive than modular construction.
Ask yourself this question as you read the website. Is it more cost effective to build cars one at a time in a garage, or is it more cost effective to build cars in a factory in a quality controlled environment? Well then, why not the same for houses!
Modular Home Advantages
Modular home companies become our sub contractor and material supplier. We still naeed many of the trades onsite but not as many. With Modular Homes, we can build faster and stronger, maintain better quality control, built in a controlled environment, and provide better value for our customers. See the Modular Homes Websites also for more environmentally friendly building options. This keeps my costs down. My site building costs are much higher for the same product than modular construction costs.
There are many floor plans to choose from. These can be changed and altered within certain limitations. There is a great deal of flexibility and a variety of options and upgrades available with these homes.There is more supervision of a project in a modular factory. Government approved building inspectors walk the facility along with quality control personnel. Is there a local building official on a site built house everyday? This type of quality control is not available on site built houses.
These houses meet or exceed state and local building codes.
The houses are not exposed to weather because they are constructed indoors.
These houses must be built stronger to handle the transport and lifting by a crane. If a sight built home was lifted by a crane like a off frame modular house, the sight built house would simply fall apart.
Modular houses like other products that are manufactured vary as to quality. Not all Modular homes are built alike. Just as with cars the quality varies.
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What FEMA stated
FEMA has stated that modular houses are more storm resistant than site built homes. In FEMA's report "Building Performance Hurricane Andrew in Florida".
" Overall relatively minimal structural damage was noted in modular housing developments. The module-to-module combination of units appears to have provided an inherently rigid system that performed much better than conventional framing. This was evident in both the transverse and longitudinal directions of the modular buildings."
FEMA concluded that the modular homes withstood the category 4 storm in August of 1992 far better than site built housing.
(Get your free copy of the report by calling 800-480-2520, Publication number FIA-22, item3-0180)www.FEMA.gov
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Mike Fusco Builder
Strasburg, VA
United States
ph: 540-660-0525
mikefusc