Pros and Cons

Lets compare modular to site built homes (What are the best points of each)

What is good on modular homes

Customization

Nearly all modular homes are costumed designed. They can be as small as a one room addition or bigger than a 20 room mansion They can even build as commercial buildings such as hotels and condominium complexes. At Templeton Modular we often work with our customers to help them design their dream home. Modular homes are subject to the same building rules and regulations as site built homes and are more likely built even stronger because they have to be transported over the road and lifted onto foundation. At Templeton Modular, we often work with our customers to help them design their dream home. If you show us your plan we will show you what we could do with it as a modular home.

Timing

Modular homes can be ordered in as little as a day but more often it can take up to a month to custom design your plan, decide on all your features, and pick your colors. After the order is placed and a deposit is given the manufacturer will draw your plan and give you a chance to make any adjustments prior to having the engineered state stamps put on the building plans.  You or your site contractor will use these building plans to get the building permit and have the foundation installed. The manufacturer usually takes 2 to 3 months to build  and ship the house and place it on the foundation. When the house is on the foundation the whole project is about 80 to 85% complete. When building a site built home, it could take a year or longer to get to this point. Often modular homes can be complete in half that time.

Cost

To have a builder build a house on your lot the cost can be as much as  150 to 250 dollars per square foot. Building a modular home usually cost less than half that amount. Cost is also not always measured in money. If we can save you time and aggravation that could be worth more than money.

Quality of construction

Modular homes  are built in a factory where is doesn’t rain or snow on you house while it being built. They have to be built strong to be shipped over the roads and lifted into the air by a crane with out breaking. If you are researching modular homes, you will find that many times modular home are built better than site built homes.

What is better on site built homes?

Customization

Although modular homes can be custom designed like site build homes they are limited to the size boxes that can be shipped over the road. On those rare occasions that we cannot do than plan fully as a modular, we can usually build those sections in a panelized form and ship that part with the modular boxes to be assembled on site when we set the house. The part of the house that is panelized, will take more work to complete that the modules.

This one is questionable as to which one is better?

Site limitations

A site built home can be built virtually any ware even on the side of a mountain on in tight areas like the inner city.  In over 99% of all cases, we can deliver the house to the building lot. Before we sold a house to anyone, we would review the lot to insure that we could deliver and place the house without problems.

There are places that we cannot put up modular home but you could build site built home?

Customer participation

With site built homes, you can have the contractor do all the work and just move in the new home when it is complete. With our modular homes you would still need at least one contractor beside Templeton Modular. The contractor would be responsible to complete the work that we would not be contracted to do. You could also hire individual contractors if you would like more control of the project.

Templeton Modular supplies the engineered building plans and delivers the house to the job sit and places the house on your foundation. It is the customers or their general contractors responsibility to have the site work done and complete to house after it placed on the foundation. Although the house is mostly complete when it is delivered, there is still utility connections to be made such as heating, plumbing and electric and a limited amount of carpentry work to be done before the house can be occupied.

If you have a general contractor could all the work a modular home requires be more work for you than a site built home?

Customer choices

There are hundreds of options that you can pick from when you are building a modular home however the choices are limited compared to site built homes. If there is something that we do not offer that you would like, then we could not include it when we order the house and your local contractor would have to complete that item on site. For example if you would like a metal roof, and we did not off it as an option at the factory, we could prepare the house at the factory so that you could install the roof on site and we would give you credit for the roofing that we did not supply. You could then use that credit to help pay for the meal roofing and its installation  by you local contractor.

Your options at the factory are more limited than site built homes. What ever can’t be done at the factory has to be complete on site