I don’t mean double-wides, I mean quality modular houses.
Why? there isn’t much difference in cost possible as site built is mostly using pre cut materials as well.they go up faster but don’t save that much when you demand quality. They also are very limited in floorplans. Anyone actually in construction understands where the real problems are and they are not things modular can solve.
Buh? Site has a ton of on site construction: woodwork, running wires, pipes, fucking everything. Prebuilt in a factory can get way more efficiency.
All that is done in the factory too. Done in much the same way.
Site built just brings the factory to the site and gets semilar efficiencies.
Factory has the capacity to be far more efficient. Assembly line style.
People hate it when all houses are the same and that limits what eificience you can get.
Just like different car models you can have different house models if the market is big enough.
shipping a complete house is expensive. site construction is very efficient and well setup for quick building with minimal people. And because you don’t have to design for what can fit on roads ends up almost as cheap while being more flexible-
i’m not arguing that site built is just as cheap only that it isn’t much more expensive and the other benifits make it worth it.
There really outts be a hurricane-proof trend, like dome houses, and for the coastline, domes on stilts.
How about don’t live where hurricanes keep happening? Crazy thought, I know.
You act like there are hurricanes every year and they don’t offer insurance anymore.
That excludes where half the US population lives.
And?
I was hoping for a trend in less green house gases but this sounds like the next best idea.
If you can make modulars out of concrete instead of balsa wood that would be great. Otherwise, bring on the shipping container houses…
Shipping container houses are terrible ideas. You want insulation, windows, plumbing, etc. They don’t work well in those small steel containers.
"It is possible to insulate the outside of a shipping container instead of the inside.
This method of insulation is known as “over-cladding” or “external insulation” and involves adding a layer of insulation to the outside of the container before covering it with cladding or other weather-resistant materials"
Seriously? It’s surface area to volume problem. You have this tiny box. And then you have problems with doors, Hvac, etc. Sorry but the whole idea is idiotic.
People just want affordable homes- a cornerstone feature of pretty much every modern generation before Millennials.
Obviously there are better ways to build a home, but those avenues seem closed.
Modular or not, when there’s 10-12’ of storm surge and/or river flooding, it doesn’t matter. Houses built today generally handle cat 3 and even cat 4 storm winds without much problem. It’s the flooding that’s the killer.
I’m talking about reconstruction afterwards.
We are entering peak America. Disposable homes! Lol
People have been trying to make modular housing work for awhile, with limited success. For various reasons, it’s a lot more challenging than it seems like it should be. One of the problems is that the US doesn’t really have a single national regulatory regime for building codes, they are mostly local and regional. You can’t really design a house that works everywhere so the economics are a lot different than selling something like a car or a washing machine.
I think a large part of it is consistent demand, and that must be regional because of the size and shipping of the final product. Hurricanez solve both to some extent.
