Whats the difference between mobile homes, manufactured homes and modular homes?
If you haven’t stepped inside a manufactured home lately, you’re in for a really big surprise… especially if it’s a Palm Harbor. Technically, modular homes and mobile homes are manufactured homes. Palm Harbor builds manufactured homes and they’re built to a Federal Code. Perhaps you knew them as mobile homes once, but after HUD passed the Federal Manufactured Housing Standards and Safety Act, the term mobile home was dropped. Because we build to the Federal HUD Code, HUD approved third party inspectors are in our factories at all stages during production. Modular homes fall under local jurisdiction. Some of our factories do build modular depending on the factory location and the destination of the home. Modular codes could be DCA, UBC, BOCA, SBC, etc. The differences usually involve design standards versus performance standards. Municipalities differ in that they have different requirements and variations within county governments.
