Anyway....
The new house was delivered on Monday 19 Sept. It is a 2 piece modular home. Modular homes are built in a factory (in this case in Indiana). The difference between a modular and a mobile home is that the modular is built to stick built home specs and codes while a mobile home is built like a trailer. In most cases you can get a construction loan for a modular. Over the past few years there has trend for insurance companies not to insure mobile homes particularly one that aren't in an established mobile home park/community. States (notably Michigan and Florida) have increased regulations and codes making it more difficult to sell, buy, place, pass building codes and insure mobile homes. We had already picked out a mobile home to buy but kept running into roadblocks because of the above. Finally went to a modular.
Anyway, it was delivered in two pieces by truck. Bigger houses can be 3, 4 or even 5 pieces. Anything you can build on site can be built in a factory.
Once on site, they call a big crane in to lift the pieces onto the foundation.
Then they put the other piece on...
The pieces are shipped with the roof peak folded down.
They they raise the roof sections with the crane.
The set up crew then has to attach the pieces, make connections, put in the trusses at the peak, shingle the portion of the roof at the peak and do some other things.
When they are done a finish crew comes in and does the trim, does the interior work, connects the lines and plumbing underneath the house.
Another crew of carpenters showed up today to start working on the garage and front porch. That's an add on to the house. It was handled by the people we bought the house from and is part of the financing etc.
Starting to look like a house
Still have to sink the well, run the power lines, get the propane tank and hook it up, finish the garage and front porch and do the finishing inside. Figure about 2 months to finish it up, get the inspection and move in.
