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Old School 1951
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Posted 4:14 pm, 09/20/2021
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Might want to check around on that. Do you think I don't know the difference in a log home kit and a modular log home. Shipped in prebuilt sections, stacked with 2 huge cranes bolted together and roofed. 3 story over 1 million dollars for a Cuban lawyer above the New River on top of a hill. If I still had the address you could drive by and look at it. Cannot tell it was not stick build now.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 3:27 pm, 09/20/2021
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Nope, I drink just fine. In fact, I'm really good at it. Better than most. You're the one that said it's built to IRC standards, not local building codes. That's not a modular.
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hollyhock
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Posted 3:10 pm, 09/20/2021
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Alf do you have a drinking problem?
Just asking because four times you told me that I owned a doublewide.
It's my House my father-in-law was a county building inspector but you kept insisting that I own a doublewide.
You don't know me however you seem to think you know everything about me,my home,and how it was inspected my land etc...
You insulted me for No reason.
I see you were very quick to respond when other folks saw how You were acting time and again with the doublewide comments.
I happen to own several acres of land and it's really none of your business why I need it moved.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 2:11 pm, 09/20/2021
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Log home kits aren't modulars. And no one called modulars double wides. The problem is double wide owners thinking their trailers are modulars.
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Old School 1951
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Posted 11:40 am, 09/20/2021
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I worked on a million dollar modular log home up near Boone a few years back. 3 story, so don't paint with such a wide brush when you call a modular a doublewide.
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gascon
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Posted 10:31 am, 09/20/2021
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Knew a man that added on to a house trailer and called it a modular home. It still looked like a house trailer only worse. You can't change the look of them. Most don't mow their yards and throw trash all over the yard. Then it gets so bad they want to move them lol.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 9:06 am, 09/20/2021
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The difference is important. A modular is a house. To move one is the same as moving any house. Because once it's been put on it's foundation and the sections put together, you aren't really talking it apart like a double wide. Because of this, I've never seen anyone in their right mind try to move one. I also don't understand why yu would move one, since like building a house on site, you have to own the land.
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Foxnose
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Posted 6:13 am, 09/20/2021
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Do you need a legal degree or contractor license to ask a simple question. Good grief people she was just asking who could move it. She don't need to know how to build it.
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hollyhock
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Posted 4:57 pm, 09/19/2021
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Alf have always been this much of a Pompous Arse?
That must be hard for you.
You seem to think you know more about my house then I do and a county building inspector does.
FYI Lets' just get some this straight OK?
Many without direct knowledge of the difference between a modular and manufactured home tend to shun the modular home, or confuse the two.
A manufactured home (also known as a mobile home) is built on a steel frame trailer with a permanence. It includes stamps and tags that have to be found in order for funding for the sale to be completed. The homes have a hitch (which is sometimes removed), and they can be set onto a foundation. They have uncommon sized studs in the walls and rafters in the roof, and the joists that are used in the ceilings are not your typical lumber either. They lack the width you would typically see in a stick built or modular home. You also don't normally see too many variations of design. You will typically see only single wide and double wide structures with the same particular look on the outside of the home that you have been used to for decades.
Modular homes are still built in a factory just the same as you would expect a manufactured home to be, but the differences are vast. Modular homes are constructed of the same lumber you would typically see in stick built homes. They do undergo a different process that stick built homes do, however. Sheet rock is held onto walls and ceilings with a special two part expanding foam that is an adhesive and can be seen as draft deterrent. They are secured by sheet rock screws and spackled and taped the same as you would with the stick built process.
The ceilings/roof systems on a modular home are secured to the walls with different types of hurricane straps, nails and hurricane clips and can be intentionally built to withstand high wind zones. Most stick built homes have access to these clips and straps, but few use them.
A common misconception is that they all look the same. The modular home has come a long way since it's debut of the ranch style home. They can come in many different shapes and sizes. They are built in sections and shipped to the construction site where a crane is waiting with a specially trained crew to secure the sections to the foundation and to each other. If you prefer a Victorian style home, even that can be done with modular homes. They have specially constructed trusses to accommodate the style of roof that will be going on your home: High wind, heavy snow load, or hips and valleys as well as dormers.
It can be difficult to walk into a home and tell the difference between stick built and modular unless you know what to look for. Modular homes are energy star efficient due to the weather proofing process that is difficult to mimic with stick built. The structural integrity is virtually unsurpassed with the amount of straps and clips that go into tying it to it's walls and ceilings. A modular home's windows and stairs can still be of high end quality depending on the choice of the purchaser, just like with a stick built home.
Again thanks to all that gave me useful information.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 8:34 pm, 09/18/2021
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I'm not the one confused. And apparently you don't know your house since you think it was built to IRC standards but think it's a modular. Also, a modular would have to be erected on land in your name. So no one would try to move one anyway. You have a double wide.
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hollyhock
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Posted 3:56 pm, 09/18/2021
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Uh yes it was Alf.
At the time my father-in-law was a county building inspector.
I think I know it was my house. However you seems a bit confused.
aFicIoNadoS (view profile) | Posted 2:36 pm, 09/18/2021 | From a legal standpoint, the primary difference between modular and manufactured homes is that modular homes are held to the same local, state and regional building codes required for on-site homes, while manufactured homes are held to a federal code set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Is that not what I said? hollyhock (view profile) | Posted 1:14 pm, 09/18/2021 | Thanks to those who gave heplful information. To answer some questions.
No title.
When the House was inspected it was to house code.
Since they are built to International Residential Code standards and not the HUD Code, ownership of modular homes is treated the same as site-built homes. |
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 2:36 pm, 09/18/2021
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From a legal standpoint, the primary difference between modular and manufactured homes is that modular homes are held to the same local, state and regional building codes required for on-site homes, while manufactured homes are held to a federal code set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 1:38 pm, 09/18/2021
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Uh, no. Modular homes are built to the building codes of the state and local area where they are being delivered. You have a double wide.
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hollyhock
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Posted 1:14 pm, 09/18/2021
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Thanks to those who gave heplful information.
To answer some questions.
No title.
When the House was inspected it was to house code.
Since they are built to International Residential Code standards and not the HUD Code, ownership of modular homes is treated the same as site-built homes.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 12:13 pm, 09/18/2021
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The OP isn't trying to move a modular. She's trying to move a double wide. I've made more than one potential seller mad when I told them their trailer wasn't a modular. It didn't matter if they had taken the tongue off
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chendo
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Posted 11:31 am, 09/18/2021
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Joe T...my question was to ascertain if it had been converted
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gascon
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Posted 11:11 am, 09/18/2021
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gascon
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Posted 11:11 am, 09/18/2021
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Some gave me a small house one time, I only had to maove it from their property. I'ts very expensive because they are taller and hit power lines, so for every mile you travel it cost. Modular is bulit more like a house and would cost more to move.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 10:13 am, 09/18/2021
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Joe, if they are wanting to move it, it likely wouldn't have been converted. At that point it's real property attached to the land and makes moving it a bit more involved in the sale. The same would go for moving a modular/stick built house.
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udfred
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Posted 9:59 am, 09/18/2021
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And the price for a stick built house I don't see how people pay it.
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