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The advantage to me seems like it should be in quality and consistency, not cost and speed. Building houses is fast enough, and as you say the cost of the land
by modeless 6y ago
The advantage to me seems like it should be in quality and consistency, not cost and speed. Building houses is fast enough, and as you say the cost of the land often dominates, but the quality of houses is appallingly bad compared to consumer items mass produced in factories.
- xnx 6y agoThis. I want homes as well designed, engineered and built as iPhones, or at least automobiles.
- yazaddaruvala 6y agoFWIW, I have a hunch that in 10 years TSLA will start building homes and AAPL will likely start building condo buildings.
- stephencanon 6y agoThe quality issues that you encounter in houses aren't the framing either, though. It's the roof sealing, ventilation, trim, plumbing, ... all things that prefab framing also doesn't address.
- modeless 6y agoTrue, I don't see a point to prefab unless it involves a lot more than the framing. But it seems totally possible to do prefab installation of most of the ventilation, plumbing, electrical, etc.