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July 2, 2009 at 8:07 AM #15973July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM #423833
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ParticipantThe designs of pre-manufactured homes have come a long way since the old “doublewide”.
If you’re planning on living in a seismically active area (CA) – then the added advantage is pre-fab homes are designed to withstand pretty extreme vibration during shipping – so they weather moderate earthquakes better than most built in place homes. The steel framing is part of the reason.
We seriously looked at prefab when we were first looking at our companion unit… but there wasn’t anything of the right scale with the ADA features we needed.
July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM #424576ParticipantThe designs of pre-manufactured homes have come a long way since the old “doublewide”.
If you’re planning on living in a seismically active area (CA) – then the added advantage is pre-fab homes are designed to withstand pretty extreme vibration during shipping – so they weather moderate earthquakes better than most built in place homes. The steel framing is part of the reason.
We seriously looked at prefab when we were first looking at our companion unit… but there wasn’t anything of the right scale with the ADA features we needed.
July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM #424064ParticipantThe designs of pre-manufactured homes have come a long way since the old “doublewide”.
If you’re planning on living in a seismically active area (CA) – then the added advantage is pre-fab homes are designed to withstand pretty extreme vibration during shipping – so they weather moderate earthquakes better than most built in place homes. The steel framing is part of the reason.
We seriously looked at prefab when we were first looking at our companion unit… but there wasn’t anything of the right scale with the ADA features we needed.
July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM #424414ParticipantThe designs of pre-manufactured homes have come a long way since the old “doublewide”.
If you’re planning on living in a seismically active area (CA) – then the added advantage is pre-fab homes are designed to withstand pretty extreme vibration during shipping – so they weather moderate earthquakes better than most built in place homes. The steel framing is part of the reason.
We seriously looked at prefab when we were first looking at our companion unit… but there wasn’t anything of the right scale with the ADA features we needed.
July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM #424344ParticipantThe designs of pre-manufactured homes have come a long way since the old “doublewide”.
If you’re planning on living in a seismically active area (CA) – then the added advantage is pre-fab homes are designed to withstand pretty extreme vibration during shipping – so they weather moderate earthquakes better than most built in place homes. The steel framing is part of the reason.
We seriously looked at prefab when we were first looking at our companion unit… but there wasn’t anything of the right scale with the ADA features we needed.
July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM #424596Nor-LA-SD-guy
ParticipantFrom my limited experience (maybe I look at the older homes the newer ones could be a whole lot better)
But from my experience, the prefab homes are very difficult to repair when they get old, and they lose value very quickly after about 10 years (but this is just an amateur talking so do your own DD).
Most of the ones I have seen are basically scrap after 20 to 30 years.
July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM #424434ParticipantFrom my limited experience (maybe I look at the older homes the newer ones could be a whole lot better)
But from my experience, the prefab homes are very difficult to repair when they get old, and they lose value very quickly after about 10 years (but this is just an amateur talking so do your own DD).
Most of the ones I have seen are basically scrap after 20 to 30 years.
July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM #424364ParticipantFrom my limited experience (maybe I look at the older homes the newer ones could be a whole lot better)
But from my experience, the prefab homes are very difficult to repair when they get old, and they lose value very quickly after about 10 years (but this is just an amateur talking so do your own DD).
Most of the ones I have seen are basically scrap after 20 to 30 years.
July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM #424084ParticipantFrom my limited experience (maybe I look at the older homes the newer ones could be a whole lot better)
But from my experience, the prefab homes are very difficult to repair when they get old, and they lose value very quickly after about 10 years (but this is just an amateur talking so do your own DD).
Most of the ones I have seen are basically scrap after 20 to 30 years.
July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM #423853ParticipantFrom my limited experience (maybe I look at the older homes the newer ones could be a whole lot better)
But from my experience, the prefab homes are very difficult to repair when they get old, and they lose value very quickly after about 10 years (but this is just an amateur talking so do your own DD).
Most of the ones I have seen are basically scrap after 20 to 30 years.
July 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM #424162Zeitgeist
ParticipantI understand the windows will become tweaked in an earth quake and they are not repairable. In a high fire threat zone, a steel building would make sense though.
July 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM #423932ParticipantI understand the windows will become tweaked in an earth quake and they are not repairable. In a high fire threat zone, a steel building would make sense though.
July 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM #424443ParticipantI understand the windows will become tweaked in an earth quake and they are not repairable. In a high fire threat zone, a steel building would make sense though.
July 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM #424676ParticipantI understand the windows will become tweaked in an earth quake and they are not repairable. In a high fire threat zone, a steel building would make sense though.
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