Everyday people come on our lot and are confused about what is the difference between mobile homes, manufactured homes and modulars.
Here are some of the definitions to help you better understand what these homes are--and what they are not.
Factory Built Home
Any home that is constructed inside a factory and then brought to the site in big pieces, usually sections or modules, and assembled.
There are four types of factory-built homes: modular, manufactured, pre-cut and panelized. See definitions below.
Site-Built Home
Any home that is built on the site, which the vast majority of homes are.
Off Site Built Home
Another term for factory built, sometimes used to avoid having to use the term manufactured home with its connotation of mobile home.
Stick-Built Home
Same as site-built home, although the term is inaccurate. Factory built homes are also stick-built; the "sticks"(lumber)are simply assembled inside a factory.
Manufactured Home
A manufactured home is constructed in a factory in conformance with a national building code developed in 1976 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This home is constructed on an integral permanent steel frame to which removable axles, wheels, brakes and a hitch are attached for transportation to the building site or sales lot. The home is supported by blocks or jack stands with or without a permanent foundation. All such homes built prior to the HUD Code of June 1976 were called mobile homes.
Mobile Home
A manufactured home built before The Federal Manufactured Home construction Safety Standards of June 1976,(HUD code) was implemented.
Modular Home
A factory built home constructed of prefabricated modules, entire rooms and larger, which are transported on a flat-bed truck to a home site and assembled using a crane or rollers directly off the truck and over the foundation wall. Most modular homes are built to the UBC or IRC Codes or other local building code requirements.
Pre-Cut Homes
Kit homes which all the lumber and other materials are measured and pre-cut at the factory, then transported to the site as materials and assembled by the builder. All are built to local building codes.
Panelized Homes
Homes constructed of largely complete panel sections built in a factory. This process is also called a structural insulated panel system, or SIP. Built to local building codes.
If you have more questions about a "Manufactured Home", call Sierra Homes (530) 365-2126, we have been selling these homes since 1957.
