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Stick-Built Home - A house built without prefabricated parts. Also called conventional building.
While this may seem a matter of opinion, there are a few areas in which modular homes have stick-built homes at-large beat.
If you and your builder are not tied to conventional stick-built homes, two increasingly popular types of construction - insulated concrete forms (ICFs) and structural insulated panels (SIPs) - dramatically block outside noise.
To deal with the rigors of shipping, each modular home is constructed with roughly twenty to thirty percent more material than a traditional stick-built home (for example, ...
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Are there restrictions or covenants on the land? On some you cannot place a camper trailer, a mobile home, or even a stick-built home. Or you cannot have horses, cattle, goats, or chickens. And I'm talking about remote property, too.
This system creates walls that have a high thermal resistance, with R-values typically above R-17. Even though ICF homes are constructed using concrete, they look just like traditional stick-built homes.
The construction method meets or exceeds the state and local building codes (the same code which governs conventional stick-built homes).
The pieces are then shipped to the building site, where the home is assembled. It still takes time and effort to assemble a prefab house, but usually considerably less than a comparable stick-built home.
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