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Manufactured homes are going up like gangbusters in BC, but they’re not mobile manufactured homes. IMO it’s a brilliant system. Prefab the wall and truss struc

Manufactured homes are going up like gangbusters in BC, but they’re not mobile manufactured homes. IMO it’s a brilliant system. Prefab the wall and truss structures off-site, where you can use CNC and jigs to build precisely. Wiring, plumbing, sheathing, siding, insulation, possibly roofing, all pre-installed. Erect on-site using a boom-arm delivery truck in one or two days. Do finishing work in a few days. Three three-person specialized crews building a new home every week. Many are on lease-hold land with strata expenses for water, area maintenance, plowing, etc. many others on small rural holdings. Sometimes in town, usually in a development with micro-sized lots and ~1000–1200 sq.ft. retirement/starter homes. Mobile homes are common enough on small rural acreages/homesteads. The new ones are quite nice. New mobile home parks are rare: regulations are undoubtedly a burden, and the cost:payoff too low. Old parks continue to go strong.

Invictus0 4y ago
Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJJ75IBV1hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJJ75IBV1hU
- robocat 4y ago
  Nice 3 story home. It looks to be in an unpopulated area. Building offsite using prefabricated elements would make sense even it it were quite costly, because getting builders and tradies out to a wop-wop location to do an on-site build would be even more expensive.
- moistly 4y ago
  That sort of thing, and one’s where there are standard 2x4xOSB sheathing, flat-panel patterns, and they arrive as a package of walls to be fastened to a foundation or rim joist, and trusses to be placed on top. More or less plug and play. I believe most non-mobile prefab homes have gyproc installed post-construction, not the jointed fibreboard panels used in (older?) mobile homes. A local homeless transitioning apartment block appeared to use a very modular design, a crane lifting frameworks into place. Now that I think of it, I wonder if those were the same units an Albertan motel chain had been using, that were being constructed locally and shipped off on a flatbed. Most home construction is still done on-site, with framing being cut and nailed and clad per the blueprint, and various specialty crews coming through in sequence to housewrap, install siding, wire, plumb, insulate, sheetrock, trim, install windows and doors, lay flooring, roofing, etc. It is astoundingly quick when well-managed and there are no supply chain issues. And then there are ATCO units. I believe the Alberta oilpatch lives in their modular systems.
seanmcdirmid 4y ago
There is a clear distinction between manufactured and mobile homes in the USA also. Also, what you are talking about is not called a manufactured home in the states, but a modular or prefab home.

Invictus0 4y ago

Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJJ75IBV1hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJJ75IBV1hU

robocat 4y ago
Nice 3 story home. It looks to be in an unpopulated area. Building offsite using prefabricated elements would make sense even it it were quite costly, because getting builders and tradies out to a wop-wop location to do an on-site build would be even more expensive.
moistly 4y ago
That sort of thing, and one’s where there are standard 2x4xOSB sheathing, flat-panel patterns, and they arrive as a package of walls to be fastened to a foundation or rim joist, and trusses to be placed on top. More or less plug and play. I believe most non-mobile prefab homes have gyproc installed post-construction, not the jointed fibreboard panels used in (older?) mobile homes. A local homeless transitioning apartment block appeared to use a very modular design, a crane lifting frameworks into place. Now that I think of it, I wonder if those were the same units an Albertan motel chain had been using, that were being constructed locally and shipped off on a flatbed. Most home construction is still done on-site, with framing being cut and nailed and clad per the blueprint, and various specialty crews coming through in sequence to housewrap, install siding, wire, plumb, insulate, sheetrock, trim, install windows and doors, lay flooring, roofing, etc. It is astoundingly quick when well-managed and there are no supply chain issues. And then there are ATCO units. I believe the Alberta oilpatch lives in their modular systems.

seanmcdirmid 4y ago

There is a clear distinction between manufactured and mobile homes in the USA also. Also, what you are talking about is not called a manufactured home in the states, but a modular or prefab home.