What are Manufactured Homes?
A Manufactured Home is: • Built in a climate controlled factory • Available with hundreds of design options • Conform to a Federal building code ( HUD Code) rather than building codes at their final placement • Priced incomparably low to site-built homes due to their streamlined “assembly- line” process, making them affordable to almost everyone.
Manufactured homes, also known as factory-built homes, pre-fab homes, pre-cut homes, factory-made homes, and mobile homes, are residences that are built in a factory. While some of the finishing touches may not be added to manufactured homes until they arrive on site, nearly every other component of the home is completed beforehand. In order to transport manufactured homes to the building site, they are loaded onto a steel chassis and placed on the trailer of a semi truck. The wheels used to transport the manufactured homes can be removed. The chassis, however, stays in place. When manufactured homes were first developed, owners were limited in the sizes and shapes they could select from. In addition, manufactured homes had a distinctive look that made them easy to differentiate from stick built homes, which are homes that are built entirely on site. Today, manufactured homes come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes that can be difficult to tell from stick built homes. In fact, manuf
Manufactured homes, formerly called mobile homes, are built in a factory. Each home conforms to the US government’s Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD code), rather than to building codes enforced at the home’s destination. Each home or segment of a home is labeled with a red tag that is the manufacturer’s guarantee the home was built to conform to the HUD code. Manufactured homes are built on a non-removable steel chassis and transported to the building site on their own wheels. Although the terms single wide and double are common many builders are making triple and multi-story manufactured homes. Multi-part manufactured units are joined at their destination. Unfortunately even with advances in quality and styles manufactured homes generally decrease in value over time. Segments are not always placed on a permanent foundation, making them more difficult to re-finance over time. Manufactured housing is generally less expensive than site built and modular homes. If
As the price of buying a home escalates, people start to look at cheaper options and one of these is to purchase a manufactured home. That is, a home that is not built entirely onsite, but much of the work is done in the factory, making it cheaper to purchase. Modular homes have the least of all work done onsite, with entire rooms or modules built in the factory and brought to the building site where they are simply joined together. Transport is more difficult, but onsite work is quick and easy – at least for those trained to it. One reason it is cheaper is that there are only a certain number of stock plans to choose from, the parts are built in the factory and brought to the building site in large pieces. Then it doesn’t take as long to put them together. There are three different kinds of manufactured homes. The first kind is the kit or pre-cut home where the frames and trusses are factory built, but all the rest is done onsite. These are easily transported, but there is more work d
A manufactured home is defined as a movable dwelling, 8 feet or more wide and 40 feet or more long, designed to be towed on its own chassis, with transportation gear integral to the unit when it leaves the factory, and without need of a permanent foundation. These manufactured homes include multi-wides and expandable manufactured homes. Excluded are travel trailers, motor homes, and modular housing. Manufactured houses are built in a factory. They conform to a Federal building code, called the HUD code, rather than to building codes at their destinations. Manufactured homes are built on a non-removable steel chassis. Sections of the manufactured home are transported to the building site on their own wheels. Multi-part manufactured home units are joined together at the land site. Manufactured homes are not always placed on a permanent foundation, which makes them difficult to re-finance. Building inspectors check the electrical, plumbing, etc., work which was done by local contractor. M
