long island modular home

Part 1 of Why building a Long Island Modular Home

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Why Consider Modular Building?

Modular homes have several advantages over site-built homes, including superior quality, faster construction time, and lower prices.

Superior Quality

Many home builders are converting to modular home building. A shortage of skilled construction workers in several parts of the country has driven up costs and lowered craftsmanship. These conditions result in poor construction, delays and ultimately, unhappy customers. To combat this, and to gain more control in the building process, many concerned site-builders are turning to modular construction.

The factory environment greatly helps to organize the construction process. Labor in a factory is more closely supervised than site labor, and factory laborers are more stable and reliable. They also have greater opportunity to master their individual crafts, resulting in higher quality finished work.

The use of automated assembly equipment and assembly-line technique produces greater consistency of product quality and greater efficiency. Only framing materials of very good quality will work well with precision factory equipment. For example, wood that is warped, green or heavily flawed can slow down the assembly jigs, and these less-than-perfect materials are therefore rejected at the factory receiving door. Modular manufacturers purchase massive amounts of building material and can command significant attention from their suppliers. Materials are also stored in climate-controlled conditions and not left exposed to the elements. Reducing moisture content during the building process reduces the likelihood of mold later in the home.

Because modular homes are built to withstand highway transportation to the home site, and crane-lifting onto the foundation, they are built more sturdily than site-built homes. In addition to nails, special adhesive is used to fasten major components, such as walls. Double and triple headers are used where modules will be joined together. Unlike some site-built homes, modular homes are usually perfectly square since they are built on perfectly square jigs to ensure perfect joins at the home site.

Lastly, standard techniques employed in modular construction reduce air leakage significantly versus site-built practices. Testing on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program has demonstrated that a correctly finished modular home outperforms a typical site-built home on air filtration. A tighter home means lower energy bills.

For more information on your long island modular home contact Ballymore Homes. Visit us online at http://www.ballymore-homes.com or call 516-624-7088

Introduction to Long Island Modular Homes

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Modular homes are distinguished from traditional site-built or “stick-built” homes in that they are built in a factory and assembled on site. They should not be confused with other types of partially factory built homes, such as precut, panelized or manufactured homes.

For precut homes, elements, and in particular, the wood pieces are factory cut and shipped, and assembled at the home site. Precut homes have been built in the U.S. since the late 1800’s. Sears sold mail order homes in the early 1900’s. Many of these are still inhabited in our area, especially in NY and NJ. Panelized homes consist of individual panels 8’ by up to 40’ that are factory-built and shipped, assembled at site. Manufactured homes are typically built in great part within factories and shipped to the home site, but are built to federal standards which may or may not be as strict as local standards. Placement of manufactured homes is limited to sites and conditions that can.

Unlike these homes built using these other methods, modular homes are built as boxes, or “modules”, which are constructed in a factory to exact specifications, transported to the home site and assembled on site. The types of materials used to create the modules are exactly the same as those found in conventional site-built homes.

For more information on your long island modular home contact Ballymore Homes. Visit us online at http://www.ballymore-homes.com or call 516-624-7088

About Ballymore Homes

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Ballymore Homes is an East Norwich, NY specializing in modular homes and modular additions on Long Island.

To learn more about modular home construction contact Donal Finlay at 516-624-7088 or dfinlay@ballymore-homes.com or visit us online at http://www.ballymore-homes.com.