With 25 years of home building experience, Discovery Custom Homes brings factory-built housing to high-end, customized homes using their SMARTPLUS® modular building system. This allows them to build a quality, efficient home for every need in a fraction of the time and at a lower cost than traditional builders. Palm Harbor created Discovery Homes in 2003 to meet the growing demand for modular housing. Their facility located in Tempe Arizona delivers off-frame or custom modular homes to southern California only. According to Mike Young, Marketing Director they can deliver as far as Bakersfield California.
Palm Harbor’s, facility located in Millersburg California only produces HUD-code manufactured homes. “The Millersburg plant is in the process of getting certified to start delivering modular homes to northern California,” Mike did not indicate when that would be but probably sometime in 2007.
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Systems Built Home The term modular means many things to many people. It can describe homes built on site using panels, walls prefabricated and shipped directly from the factory to the job site. The phrase can also be used for the modular housing industry built as whole sections or modular units in a plant and then attached on a permanent foundation with the use of a crane. Finally, it can describe HUD code homes, also known as manufactured homes or sometimes referred to as mobile homes.
Modular Housing Facts Advocates of prefab homes have long maintained that the building system produces homes that are much stronger than conventional site built structures. For example, the modular sections are well built to withstand the stresses of highway travel, containing up to 30 percent more building materials than a comparable site built home.
Florida Factory Built Home A manufactured home is built entirely in the factory under a federal building code administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD and is classified as a Manufactured Home. These homes are constructed to meet the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act, which has been in effect since June 15, 1976. The Federal standards regulate, manufactured housing design, construction, strength, durability, transportability, fire resistance, energy efficiency and quality. The HUD Code also sets performance standards for the heating, plumbing, air conditioning, thermal and electrical systems.