What is the difference between a Manufactured Home and a Modular Home?
Modular homes are assembled in smaller factory-built pieces, which makes them much more customized. Modular Homes are similar to Site Built Homes in appearance, and often stand alone anchored into a foundation. The pieces of a Modular Home are built in a factory around a floor plan designed by the future homeowner. Manufactured homes are customizable also, but in a different way. Rooms and floor plans can be customized in a Manufactured Home, but they are within a single or double wide pre-manufactured design. Manufactured Homes are usually in Parks, and aren’t anchored into property.
“Factory-built” homes include both manufactured and modular homes. Both types of structures are built in a factory by professional craftsmen. Following is a description of what differentiates the two types of homes. MANUFACTURED HOMES – A manufactured home is a structure built on a permanent chassis that can be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. Manufactured homes are constructed entirely in a factory with federal standards enforced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD regulates the home’s design and construction, strength and durability, transportability, fire resistance, energy efficiency and quality control. It also sets tough performance standards for heating, plumbing, air conditioning, thermal and electrical systems. The HUD code preempts local building codes as they relate to federal construction codes for manufactured homes. Manufactured homes are predominantly single-story and are delivered to the home
