Modular Homes Suck
modularhomessuck
Do not buy a modular home until you hear of our nightmare experience. The
home we poor sods bought was built by ProBuilt Homes; Miffleton, Pa. Our
dealer was New Millenium; Warner, NH. The following are some of the
problems we encountered. Some of the problems took longer then a year to
develop or building systems (ie. siding) needed to be dismantled to find
the error. Still, they won't fix the problems. Instead we are referred
to the home warranty people, but they know full well the home warranty
does not cover our requested complaints (ie the home warranty does not
cover siding, ventilation, moisture problems).
1. All exterior doors out of square.
2.
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jessebelle
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/construction/Modular-Homes-Suck-12064-.htm
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modularhomessuck wrote:
Please I am also fighting Probuilt. If you are in a lawsuit please
contact me as there is strength in numbers at jaus...@yahoo.com.
> Beware:
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Astro
It isn't appropriate in this forum to condemn an entire industry. I
could just as easily say "site built homes suck" - they leave the
materials out in the rain when building it. Depending on who works on
them, the doors and windows may be totally out of square/plumb.
They're poorly air sealed and insulated. Most of the duct jobs are
incredibly bad, etc.
Many, many people have had great success with modular homes. They're
built under controlled conditions and in general are of a higher
quality and more uniformly built than site-built homes. They usually
go up practically over night.
As with anything, it's up to the purchaser to look into the builder
and determine if they do quality work and have a good reputation.
Disclaimer:
I have no connection to the modular home industry. I'm a building
science consultant.
On Nov 15, 8:53 am, jausten09_at_yahoo_dot_...@foo.com (jessebelle)
wrote:
> jessebelle had written this in response tohttp://www.thestuccocompany.com/construction/Modular-Homes-Suck-12064...
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> modularhomessuck wrote:
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> Please I am also fighting Probuilt. If you are in a lawsuit please
> contact me as there is strength in numbers at jauste...@yahoo.com.
Tim Conde
respond to this:
Yes, I have seen some terrible modular and mobile homes, just awful
condition. But why?
When they leave the factory door, they are usually in very good condition.
They are built on jigs, everything lines up, it is true, level, square,
plumb, and all is good. Inspection for each house is much greater than a
site-built home, so everything works pretty much as it should. Now what?
Generally speaking, the homes are ready weeks before they are ready to go on
foundations. We used to demand that so that if the house was built a few
inches over or under, or built to a spec that we weren't told about, we
could accomodate that when we did the foundation. All the while this was
going on, the house was sitting in a storage lot. The sturcture was usually
not sitting on blocks the way it would sit on a foundation, so over time,
things started to sag. That sag caused things to get out of square and plumb
pretty quick. Doors might start to stick. Cracks radiating from window and
door corners start to appear. God forbids it rains a bit during this time.
Homes are built in sections. I've done homes that were six sections. All the
open parts where sections mate are covered with plastic and in a good wind,
that plastic can leak, or worse, tear open exposing a lot of good work to a
lot of water. .
Finally, the big shipping day. If it is a short drive, no sweat. I've seen
houses go hundreds of miles, and believe me, they can take a beating. They
aren't going two miles an hour either. I've followed houses I was working on
from the factory and those transporters are doing highway speeds. I've never
seen it myself but there are a lot of stories of roof jacks flying off and
clobbering cars behind them.
The home arrives at the building site. Now my job begins. The transporter
wants to do all he can to unhook and go home. So he generally parks the unit
somewhere off the road, hopefully somewhere near the other sections in some
organized way, and he goes. I have to get it on the foundation. I either use
a crane or a system of rails on blocks, jacks with wheels and come-a-longs.
It is slow and tedious work and very scary to be underneath one of this
things as it is moved along onto the foundation. Assuming the foundation is
level, we tie it down and hook it all up so that you can move in. Sometimes,
since most factories do not assemble them at the factory, you get slight
differences between sections. I have to fix that. One section went through a
much more violent wind and is leaning more than another section. Or the
height is slightly different because some of the trusses on section A were
built at 2.9:12 and the trusses on section B are 3:00:12. Or the crossover
electrical was done wrong and both sections have male ends.
See the problem here? Between the factory and the consumer, there are at
least three things that can work against you: the storage area and the way
it is stored, the transporters and the installation crew, not to mention the
weather.
To say that modular homes, in and of themselves, suck, is to omit many of
the things that are really responsible for the bad reputation. I saw an
article once that said that 90% of all mobile/modular home problems were the
result of poor installation. That is probably correct.
Tim
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gerryalton
http://www.homeownershub.com/construction/Modular-Homes-Suck-12064-.htm
gerryalton wrote:
i bought three modulars for my kids 4 years ago . went with Four Season
brand, made in Middlebury ind.
one thing i can say for sure is that they are economical to live in. while
these are small ones i got (28 x 40) ranch style, they have all been able
to heat them with about 750 gal of propane for the entire winter
Art K
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