Watch how factory built homes are made as we visit Schult Homes in South Texas. Segment #5345 from "Michael Holigan's Your New House" Home Improvement TV Show
We just retired here in Eastern PA and sold out 5 br house on 2 acres for 325k. We're now empty nesters so we bought 1 acre and put a new mobile home on a foundation for a total of 180k. We love it
8000RPM the key to one lasting is a good foundation, that means supporting it all the way around the perimeter and all the way down the marriage wall, footers below frost line block up close to home, install sill plate and lower home down on foundation block up every four foot to frame. And the next biggest thing a dry crawl space, they will last fine this way as they are solid as a rock this way. It’s all ways poorly set up homes that have so many issues. All complaints people have about mobile homes usually is always do to them constantly settling. Also can’t be buying the cheapest model, the expensive ones with lower sq footage are only really lacking in the floor system, so it’s key to set it up that the floor is solid as it’s holding everything up clearly. Most still skimp on truss size but my dads home is a 82 model double wide with 2x2 trusses with scrap paneling the factory glued and stapled together no joke, and it was set up the way I describe and the old thing is still straight and never settled, I drywalled it in 96 and surprisingly it had r13 in the walls and 2x4 studs. Drywall still looks good no cracking, Another thing that is lacking in the cheap homes is sad duct work set up and no returns. But the more pricing homes can be had with good hvac
@@8000RPM. LMAO Coming from a guy who probably lives in a "Real House" that is in a Subdivision that is already falling apart because it has no real floor joist's and cracking stucco, cracking drywall seems, floors crack with in the first 5 years. belive me even a lot of older double wides are better quality then these new subdivision "Houses" that you pay 200,000 + for and don;t even have not even a 16th of an acre.. Yeah Tell me how you feel in 30 years when you retire and still struggle to pay it off and cannot enjoy your retirement.
we had a Marlette when I was a kid back in the 70's. It was in the mountains in Wyoming, and it was one of the warmest houses I've ever lived in. 2x6 walls, very well insulated. My dad actually got around the "mobile home" tax that the county there charged. Before it was placed and leveled, he had eight I beams set in sonotubes just above ground level placed around the house. Once it was placed, the axles came out, we slid cross Ibeams in, welded those to the verticals, then placed a vertical at each place the frame crossed those. By welding those solid on both ends, there was one continuous connection to the ground-it became a house at that point. That house was placed in 1974. I know the folks that live there now, and it's still dry and warm. And it's never needed to be leveled :-)
Gamer Gex My mobile home has a metal roof that was installed by the previous owner, as do most of the mobile homes in the park where I live. Mine is an older home, built in 1981.
bill I own a mobile home, and I have it insured through Foremost Insurance Co. They only insure mobile homes. It’s not overly expensive at all; of course, it depends on how much you have it insured for. I recently filed a claim because I had a pipe break, and they were absolutely wonderful to deal with. My home is a 1981, so the pipe to my cold water faucet in my bathtub cracked. This home had been well maintained when I bought it 8 years ago, and I have taken good care of it throughout my ownership. I love my mobile home and am perfectly content here!
Mines through allstate. I haven't had any issues. Cheaper than my previous homeowners policy for stick built. I have hit a snag with mortgage rates on refi. Apparently you pay more interest even if your credit and everything else is perfect
the kind of house I want to build is a 360° two-story Loft, that being a front Loft and a rear Loft with two catwalks on either side and an opening peering Down to the living room, it's under a thousand feet but the height of it is normally an issue when it comes to driving on the road. is there a certain company that specializes in this sort of model?
Heather Strickland I know it's been 6 months but, I have seen modular 2 story homes. They ship out the bottom pieces and 2nd story each on their own trailer, then just use the on-site crane to set the 2nd story after the bottom pieces are set on the foundation.
This sounds nice, but what is that glue made of? We have to consider more people are becoming sensitive to chemicals. My home is over 100 years old and I truly believe was making me sick, because the materials emits toxic fumes.
Can you please help me? I own a 2001 Karsten K-20 Estate Series double wide. Both skylights in both bathroom have a lot of cold air coming into the bathrooms. Sometimes the inside temperature is the same as the outside winter temperatures. How do we fix that?
Should make them spray washable, with safety masking seal, off the whole unit, quality is key for longevity. We love low prices, people friendly. I’m looking for work. Manufacturing is best when we think for, sales to keep assets strong storms still come in go. My name is Mr Wright, Andrew R Wright, Drew R Wright using my moms pad also common sense along with my corporate training, indeed looking for design development also earth friendly work. Just ask MTS systems corporation for the equipment we may just show you with the simulator. See how it’s done.
I see some bashing. Just buy the Class A and pay extra and get 2x6 walls and OSB flooring. I have been in one for 20 years on private land with mine sitting on brick. I think I spent like 5K extra for 2x6 walls, Better cabinets, Outer OSB walls, OSB flooring, better molding etc.. I also have 16in on center flooring and walls. Just don't buy the cheapest models. I have has zero issues 21 years later and its paid for now. If buying a 340K home is you do it. The only thing that kills these homes is putting them in parks.
If I had a manufactured Home plant I'd put vinyl siding and vinyl windows. My the trailer house nicer and but. Of course I'd do that I live in the North. Lol. I love watching these videos though.
That's not true anymore, if you have a title you can get a bank loan on any single or double wide. You will find that pretty much anything built after the mid-1990s if it's on it's on property that actually appreciates. I have one values gone up 30% over the last five years.
LOL. I recently sold a high end modular ranch home that I lived in for a decade. The place was built with 100% plywood, including a roof system of 8/12 pitch trusses 16" on center, and 5/8" plywood sheathing. Anderson Wood windows, a kitchen with 40 lineal feet of cabinets, all stained hardwood trim, etc.. It was built better that 99% of all the "custom built" stick homes in the region. The ceilings were two continuous expanses, 14' x 54' . Built with 5/8" sheetrock, attached to the trusses with closed cell spray foam. There wasn't a single fastener used to secure the drywall. The ceilings were flawless when the crane set the units on the foundation, and just as nice a decade later. Apparently you never disassembled anything built with structural foam adhesives? Since a ceiling built like this will come down is tiny little scraps, and you will spend countless hours scraping all the bits of drywall and foam off the bottom of the trusses, if you want to reinstall a new layer of drywall. I spent most of a thirty year long career in the trades as a custom homebuilder. Stick building homes, in 2019 is an absurd process, that is almost barbaric, given how crude and backwards the process is. We wouldn't think of buying a vehicle or major appliance that was built in a open field, by everybody from competent craftsmen, to druggies, drunks, and illegals, using low bid materials that sit in rain and snow for months, in a process where, " screw it, that's close enough" is often a quality metric. Yet our culture believes that all manufactured housing is crap?
There is ONE flaw in many of these manufactured homes that I have found here in New York State, and it is a flaw I wasn't really thinking about (though I should have been aware of) but myself accidentally overlooked when I had bought my manufactured home!! This flaw in my case was the roof pitch!! Many of these manufactured homes DO NOT have "snow load" roof pitches built into them!! In fact my home didn't have any optional roof designs and I completely overlooked the obvious when I had purchased my home that "maybe I should go for a roof pitch of 6/12 or better!! Instead I totally "blanked" on the idea, and paid the price later when the roof on me home started ice damming the first winter I owned it!! After all my manufactured home had a industry standard 4/12 pitch and it wasn't enough to allow the ice and show to adequately drain off the roof. This NOT ONLY damaged the roof, shortening its life, but it also damaged the walls and some of the sub floor as well in and around the exterior walls!!! SO if you live in a snow belt area like New York State, then make sure you can change the roof pitch to AT LEAST a 6/12 pitch...or you will learn the hard way when the paint starts peeling off the walls by the ceiling!!!!
Greg Benwell lots of homes have low pitched roofs without issue, I have a 6/12 pitch on my house with metal roof slick as can be, guess what it still holds snow. The issue you’re talking About comes from pour insulation and to much escaping heat from the inside of home. Causes the snow to melt from the underside of snow running down to the eve and freezing then the water that is above the warm area stays melted but can no longer drain do to ice damn, so it sets there intel it finds a Place to go sadly that place may be the structure its self. Iv fixed this issue many times buy blowing in insulation in homes, but if you watch this video again you will see there not much room for that towards the outside. On mobile home it’s best to look and make sure there is insulation evenly threw attic and if it is the best fix is a metal roof, with foam board under it, and mastic all the laps and stitch screw them every foot.
Where you gonna put it though? My county allows NO "trailer" house at all now. Those already here can stay, but one cannot even be moved within the county. If moved, it must leave this county. Good and bad points. Makes it hard for a young couple who buys land to use one. What's happened is the high dollar yankee boys sell out in New York, Connecticut, etc. a smaller house up there and have big bucks to buy here. And a much nicer place than they had in yankeeville. Right, all my yankee neighbors?
Taka Yama lol we are kinda having the same problem here in TX with all of the Californian refugees running here trying to escape the high taxes they voted for.
My rural county did that for years until they were sued and had to remove the ordinance. Every state is different, of course. They just didn't want low-lifes in the county. That's discriminatory.
You have and option of just letting the storm take your roof or walls or the whole thing I personally would add steel band every foot that way the whole thing would fly away and no clean up and it would be ready in no time to dig a basement for a real house
Dennis real were these homes lack the most is the sad floor system, those steel beams your talking about are weak, you can take a saws all and a metal blade and cut threw it in two in a min, cheap china steel. A modular home will cost you 20 to 30 thousand more then a manufactured home for same exact model , and there floor is built like a real house.
Their cabinets arent worth a crap. They are stapled together and the front eventually fails and they break off as they are made of particle board. Better off getting cabinets afterwards. Walls are made with cealtex (sheathing) and alternate with USB. Which by the way , had two holes drilled into them. Each board. Why ? I have no idea. Not solid walls throughout. Glad and greatful to have a roof over my head.....but they are not built like a modular although they would like you to think they are. I had to get the place replumbed after only 17 years because they used cheap steel connection. Not stainless but plain steel ! I should not have had to do that at all ! Walls so thin i can hear conversations as if i was in the room . had to respackle as they used drywall nails instead of the obvious choice of drywall screws. Nails work their way through over time. The flashing came loose and the nails holding the soffet in place are rusting because they used the wrong kind of nails instead of aluminum.. Everything done on the cheap. Damn shame..
John cford Does Canada have mobile home parks? If so can you send me a link. I’m interested in seeing the difference. I’ve looked at mobile homes, tiny houses, and RVs in Europe. They are 100 times better looking than the American products. The European products costs less too. It’s crazy.
Mobile Homes is what they used to be called back when they were built and sold the same as trailers. They are very different now, so they're called Manufactured Homes. They must meet HUD codes now.
@@OddTimeMan just because they must meet a code doesn't mean they're reliable. Mobile homes are still mobile homes, junk on wheels. Stop trying to sugar coat a sardine can
@@goodfriend7609 Your wrong! Had one 20 years. Had 2x6 put in the walls and full OSB outer wall with a solid OSB 3/4 thick tongue and groove floor. That Truss roof is plenty strong enough. I put new shingles on after 20 years and it was rock solid. My stick built home gave me more trouble than my manufactured home. Just don't put them in parks and take care of them and they are fine.
Those 2x2 engineered trusses are stronger than conventional trusses. Each of the gang plates has its own structural value. Every single truss is tested for strength before they leave the truss plant. I know it’s hard to believe and I was skeptical as well until I saw the process.
@@accordino86 hand cut rafters are stronger than a truss system. On slate roofs or tile for new high end houses a roof rafter system has to be engineered then built on site.
@@tonyavila2517 I actually live in a 2,700 sq ft residential "SITE" built home. As a licensed home inspector I was present the whole time my house was constructed. 😎
Actually, modern manufactured housing is built to strict government standards and have to pass rigorous inspections before they leave the plant. They aren't your grandparent's trailer! That can't always be said of stick homes, especially ones built by weekend warriors.
I am interested. However, the interior look and feel is not very ergonomic. I mean the angles of the finished amenities, like the toilet next to a sink and counter... it just looks a bit rigid and modular. I can't put my observations into words, but it might be like sitting in an entry level car with less effort put into ergonomics and fit and finish, and the same car top level trim from the version with leather and wood paneling. The layouts in what I saw here are a bit too right-angled everywhere. I would be more interested in something with a bit more character. Yes, I assume it would cost more.
LOL..we explored this route but found the value just wasn't there. We had a sight built home done for the same price with better resale value in our area.
exactly! mobile homes go down in value and theres a reason for that. i cant believe people still buy these NEW and pay 100s of thousands of dollars for them in 2019!
@@TheBeaver50 sadly because it's easier to get into a trailer home then a site built home but I will say I had a LGI home and it wasn't a good house at all I ended up selling it paid 125k for the house owed 120k and w was only able to get pay-off on it and no it wasn't an a ugly trashed out home
These homes are built too cheaply to be moved the odds of it making it to your lot without suffering any damage is slim to none you buy one at your own risk
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Eh? Wha' that mean? If you mean wha's called "stick" built house, nah, them Mehicanos building just slap them things together on site. Even if the owner is regular old Americann good ole boy.
I can't tell if this video is supposed to be a joke or not... I know it's over 5 years old, but why on earth is the interior of this "showcase" home decorated like my 92 yr old grandmother's house in 1983. So much floral, mirrors, and geometric shapes.... the interviewee even has 80's style glasses... This can't be from 1995+, can it? Much less 2014... if this is real... they should hire someone for their marketing efforts. This video was meh in 1990, it's embarrassing today.
I worked where these were built . I bult the inside of the out side wall. We laid studs on a 70ft table with bottom and top plate were stapled to studs. The paneling was glued and stapled to interrior of studs. Used a router to rout around windows and doors. It was so quick.
2x6's are not adequate for floors that cantilever 3 feet beyond the beam, and especially when you don't use joist hangers to stiffen up the bandboard. This guys mobile homes are crap. Cheap ass plastic bathtubs that weigh 10 lbs if they're lucky
I recently purchased a palm harbor new modular home. I sold my site built home a 3/2 pool home block construction. For the same size modular home. Worst decision of my 60+years. The palm harbor home is no comparison to my old home. This place is a piece of shit moldings cut short , every cabinet door is crooked. Toilets don’t flush properly, the entire house is crooked and bent in the middle. I paid 125,000.00. Just appraised for 60,000. Awesome investment. Run from these Pretty places. A Ferrari with a pinto motor
I live in a double wide, got it over 25 yrs ago, would never do it again, have put in REAL WINDOWS,PLUMBING, New cabinets, doors, so just about every damn thing! But the new ones made now are CRAP! They use 2X2s, and 2X4s for the walls, as well as 1X4s in the walls.... I would suggest that if you get a home CUSTOM BUILT, you go down and supervise how it's built!
You are boldfaced lying about the newer homes. Now granted, 25 years ago, you probably did get trash. But today, they are not using 1X4 walls. You realy need to do your research.
@@MatlasX ... lol, I have seen some newer homes,they are junk!!! Some people that have been to my home say that they wish there's was built as good as mine! Most of these new ones leak in air like heck,darn near like a wind tunnel! I am entitled to state my opinion as are you.
Chad Simmons Who in the heck would buy and live in a mobile home placed in Tornado alley or Hurricane areas back East. Now if your in Palm Springs in SoCal then your ok, Lol.
The only major difference with manufactured homes is they don’t increase in value typically … if one is ok with that they can be a very economical option.
Meanwhile, you could have the same floor plan built with Real Wood for about the same price as these Mobile Homes cost ! Mobile homes are built with junk material . The cabinets are what I call paper board, the subfloor is sawdust board that crumbles when it gets wet, the studs are 2x2's not 2x4's, the drywall is 1/4 inch thick not 1/2 inch like in a real home, and there is no insulation in the walls inside the house. Why buy a home made with junk materials that you'll have major problems with in the first 10 years when you can have a house built with real wood for about the same price that will last a lot longer?
My son married a woman that was a single mother of two kids. She bought the mobile home / manufactured housing / trailer, because she was recently divorced and supported herself and her two kids without help from a deadbeat ex husband. Some of the problems during the two years after they got married: 1. Plastic toilets leaked onto fiberboard floor under the cheap vinyl. The fiberboard swelled and soaked up water until the toilet was ready to fall through the floor. 2. Plastic bathtubs and sinks cracked and had to be replaced. 3. Cardboard doors with plastic doorknobs were so thin and light you could blow on it and it would close. You could push your finger through the door. 4. Roof leaks, and more fiberboard flooring rotted under the crappy carpet. There's plenty more stuff of the same type problems. STAY AWAY FROM THIS CHEAP CRAP. NOTHING BUT A TORNADO MAGNET. You get LESS than what you pay for. MUCH LESS.
Everyone should research mobile homes before they buy one because it's very clear, all mobile homes aren't created equal. - If you are buying a new or used mobile home go to a manufacturer or individual in a hurricane zone and purchase a mobile home that meets those specs, it's a completely different home than a home built for a non-hurricane zone. FACTS!!! - Then concentrate on the type foundation you will install the home on. This is one of the top two most important decisions you will make for the life of any home. - I'm starting a frame up rebuild on a 16x40 mobile home frame in Jan. of 2022 it will be built to Florida's mobile home hurricane specs and the frame will be installed on a normal house pier and beam foundation. - Why you may ask, well for one reason only. I would like to be able to move the home if I need or want to. - This is the only way to have a real house that can be moved without having to take a damn home loan out just to move it. A couple big bottle jacks, a couple wrenches, a couple buddies and a days work an it's ready to be moved.
Moved to Arizona in 2013, bought a 2008 Palm Harbor manufactured home w/ premium insulation; absolutely love it.
We just retired here in Eastern PA and sold out 5 br house on 2 acres for 325k. We're now empty nesters so we bought 1 acre and put a new mobile home on a foundation for a total of 180k. We love it
See how you feel 10 years from now....
8000RPM the key to one lasting is a good foundation, that means supporting it all the way around the perimeter and all the way down the marriage wall, footers below frost line block up close to home, install sill plate and lower home down on foundation block up every four foot to frame. And the next biggest thing a dry crawl space, they will last fine this way as they are solid as a rock this way. It’s all ways poorly set up homes that have so many issues. All complaints people have about mobile homes usually is always do to them constantly settling. Also can’t be buying the cheapest model, the expensive ones with lower sq footage are only really lacking in the floor system, so it’s key to set it up that the floor is solid as it’s holding everything up clearly. Most still skimp on truss size but my dads home is a 82 model double wide with 2x2 trusses with scrap paneling the factory glued and stapled together no joke, and it was set up the way I describe and the old thing is still straight and never settled, I drywalled it in 96 and surprisingly it had r13 in the walls and 2x4 studs. Drywall still looks good no cracking, Another thing that is lacking in the cheap homes is sad duct work set up and no returns. But the more pricing homes can be had with good hvac
Only God knows why these days
@@8000RPM. LMAO Coming from a guy who probably lives in a "Real House" that is in a Subdivision that is already falling apart because it has no real floor joist's and cracking stucco, cracking drywall seems, floors crack with in the first 5 years. belive me even a lot of older double wides are better quality then these new subdivision "Houses" that you pay 200,000 + for and don;t even have not even a 16th of an acre.. Yeah Tell me how you feel in 30 years when you retire and still struggle to pay it off and cannot enjoy your retirement.
How did you contract to get the foundation set up?
Love your home’s. You’ve inspired me to do home tours. Keep up the good work.
I owned a Schult mobile home at one time, and it was awesome.
I'll take one of these ANYDAY over a garbage ass Subdivision garbage built homes or the old brick garbage that cracks and falls apart etc.
Thank you all for your comments. Saved me a heck lot of anguish & money
Makes me feel great knowing the roof is glued, lol
not a single fastener was used
Hey I do restoration and those types of ceilings are really hard and stronger
Julio Silva hard to demo lol
@Patrickvegas Actually the hold up better. Screwed and glued and banded to the ground. Don't buy the media showing you single wide parks blown down.
The drywall finish looked like hammered crap
Really it just depends on what ya buy, Some new and old mobile homes can be pretty nice and sturdy and some can be a disaster
we had a Marlette when I was a kid back in the 70's. It was in the mountains in Wyoming, and it was one of the warmest houses I've ever lived in. 2x6 walls, very well insulated. My dad actually got around the "mobile home" tax that the county there charged. Before it was placed and leveled, he had eight I beams set in sonotubes just above ground level placed around the house. Once it was placed, the axles came out, we slid cross Ibeams in, welded those to the verticals, then placed a vertical at each place the frame crossed those. By welding those solid on both ends, there was one continuous connection to the ground-it became a house at that point.
That house was placed in 1974. I know the folks that live there now, and it's still dry and warm. And it's never needed to be leveled :-)
can u provide metal roof and sidings to your manufactured homes?
Gamer Gex My mobile home has a metal roof that was installed by the previous owner, as do most of the mobile homes in the park where I live. Mine is an older home, built in 1981.
What about the electric wiring from start to finish
I love trailer houses
Solitaire mobile homes
Ever try shopping around for homeowners insurance to get a better rate?
"A Mobile home?".......CLICK. Hello? .....Hello???
And getting a mortgage is nearly as difficult.
i got insurance 5 years ago. $185/ year
Sure, you can get it. But only a handful of companies offer MH insurance. NO COMPETITION!!.....makes cost higher.
bill I own a mobile home, and I have it insured through Foremost Insurance Co. They only insure mobile homes. It’s not overly expensive at all; of course, it depends on how much you have it insured for. I recently filed a claim because I had a pipe break, and they were absolutely wonderful to deal with. My home is a 1981, so the pipe to my cold water faucet in my bathtub cracked. This home had been well maintained when I bought it 8 years ago, and I have taken good care of it throughout my ownership. I love my mobile home and am perfectly content here!
Mines through allstate. I haven't had any issues. Cheaper than my previous homeowners policy for stick built.
I have hit a snag with mortgage rates on refi. Apparently you pay more interest even if your credit and everything else is perfect
Well if mobile homes are so great, then why do the owners not live in them????
the kind of house I want to build is a 360° two-story Loft, that being a front Loft and a rear Loft with two catwalks on either side and an opening peering Down to the living room, it's under a thousand feet but the height of it is normally an issue when it comes to driving on the road. is there a certain company that specializes in this sort of model?
Heather Strickland I know it's been 6 months but, I have seen modular 2 story homes. They ship out the bottom pieces and 2nd story each on their own trailer, then just use the on-site crane to set the 2nd story after the bottom pieces are set on the foundation.
LOVE THE SIMPLE REAL IDEA HERE........ BUT WHO BUILDS THEM & IN GOOD DECENT QUALITY TOO & AT DECENT CASH PRICE TOO NOW BEING 2018............
This sounds nice, but what is that glue made of? We have to consider more people are becoming sensitive to chemicals. My home is over 100 years old and I truly believe was making me sick, because the materials emits toxic fumes.
Can you please help me? I own a 2001 Karsten K-20 Estate Series double wide. Both skylights in both bathroom have a lot of cold air coming into the bathrooms. Sometimes the inside temperature is the same as the outside winter temperatures. How do we fix that?
use GE silicon II caulking for bed and bathrooms.
Should make them spray washable, with safety masking seal, off the whole unit, quality is key for longevity. We love low prices, people friendly. I’m looking for work. Manufacturing is best when we think for, sales to keep assets strong storms still come in go. My name is Mr Wright, Andrew R Wright, Drew R Wright using my moms pad also common sense along with my corporate training, indeed looking for design development also earth friendly work. Just ask MTS systems corporation for the equipment we may just show you with the simulator. See how it’s done.
I see some bashing. Just buy the Class A and pay extra and get 2x6 walls and OSB flooring. I have been in one for 20 years on private land with mine sitting on brick. I think I spent like 5K extra for 2x6 walls, Better cabinets, Outer OSB walls, OSB flooring, better molding etc.. I also have 16in on center flooring and walls. Just don't buy the cheapest models. I have has zero issues 21 years later and its paid for now. If buying a 340K home is you do it. The only thing that kills these homes is putting them in parks.
If I had a manufactured Home plant I'd put vinyl siding and vinyl windows. My the trailer house nicer and but. Of course I'd do that I live in the North. Lol. I love watching these videos though.
The main issue is the value drops like a rock. Along with banks wont loan on them after certain age
That's not true anymore, if you have a title you can get a bank loan on any single or double wide. You will find that pretty much anything built after the mid-1990s if it's on it's on property that actually appreciates. I have one values gone up 30% over the last five years.
Holy moly, foam to affix the drywall to the roof joists, oh god.
LOL.
I recently sold a high end modular ranch home that I lived in for a decade. The place was built with 100% plywood, including a roof system of 8/12 pitch trusses 16" on center, and 5/8" plywood sheathing. Anderson Wood windows, a kitchen with 40 lineal feet of cabinets, all stained hardwood trim, etc.. It was built better that 99% of all the "custom built" stick homes in the region.
The ceilings were two continuous expanses, 14' x 54' . Built with 5/8" sheetrock, attached to the trusses with closed cell spray foam. There wasn't a single fastener used to secure the drywall. The ceilings were flawless when the crane set the units on the foundation, and just as nice a decade later. Apparently you never disassembled anything built with structural foam adhesives? Since a ceiling built like this will come down is tiny little scraps, and you will spend countless hours scraping all the bits of drywall and foam off the bottom of the trusses, if you want to reinstall a new layer of drywall.
I spent most of a thirty year long career in the trades as a custom homebuilder. Stick building homes, in 2019 is an absurd process, that is almost barbaric, given how crude and backwards the process is. We wouldn't think of buying a vehicle or major appliance that was built in a open field, by everybody from competent craftsmen, to druggies, drunks, and illegals, using low bid materials that sit in rain and snow for months, in a process where, " screw it, that's close enough" is often a quality metric. Yet our culture believes that all manufactured housing is crap?
kerry kerry Yeah good luck removing the drywall if you ever need to right
kerry kerry everything was cool till you said “illegals”...
Anderson windows wait till you have to replace them in you mobile home.
@@emmantoast310 So we ignore the truth?
5 a day really place I worked once turned out 15 a day.
There is ONE flaw in many of these manufactured homes that I have found here in New York State, and it is a flaw I wasn't really thinking about (though I should have been aware of) but myself accidentally overlooked when I had bought my manufactured home!!
This flaw in my case was the roof pitch!! Many of these manufactured homes DO NOT have "snow load" roof pitches built into them!! In fact my home didn't have any optional roof designs and I completely overlooked the obvious when I had purchased my home that "maybe I should go for a roof pitch of 6/12 or better!! Instead I totally "blanked" on the idea, and paid the price later when the roof on me home started ice damming the first winter I owned it!! After all my manufactured home had a industry standard 4/12 pitch and it wasn't enough to allow the ice and show to adequately drain off the roof. This NOT ONLY damaged the roof, shortening its life, but it also damaged the walls and some of the sub floor as well in and around the exterior walls!!!
SO if you live in a snow belt area like New York State, then make sure you can change the roof pitch to AT LEAST a 6/12 pitch...or you will learn the hard way when the paint starts peeling off the walls by the ceiling!!!!
Greg Benwell lots of homes have low pitched roofs without issue, I have a 6/12 pitch on my house with metal roof slick as can be, guess what it still holds snow. The issue you’re talking About comes from pour insulation and to much escaping heat from the inside of home. Causes the snow to melt from the underside of snow running down to the eve and freezing then the water that is above the warm area stays melted but can no longer drain do to ice damn, so it sets there intel it finds a Place to go sadly that place may be the structure its self. Iv fixed this issue many times buy blowing in insulation in homes, but if you watch this video again you will see there not much room for that towards the outside. On mobile home it’s best to look and make sure there is insulation evenly threw attic and if it is the best fix is a metal roof, with foam board under it, and mastic all the laps and stitch screw them every foot.
Do you know that many lenders will NOT finance a mortgage on a manufactured home ?
Where you gonna put it though? My county allows NO "trailer" house at all now. Those already here can stay, but one cannot even be moved within the county. If moved, it must leave this county. Good and bad points. Makes it hard for a young couple who buys land to use one. What's happened is the high dollar yankee boys sell out in New York, Connecticut, etc. a smaller house up there and have big bucks to buy here. And a much nicer place than they had in yankeeville. Right, all my yankee neighbors?
Taka Yama lol we are kinda having the same problem here in TX with all of the Californian refugees running here trying to escape the high taxes they voted for.
My rural county did that for years until they were sued and had to remove the ordinance. Every state is different, of course. They just didn't want low-lifes in the county. That's discriminatory.
You have and option of just letting the storm take your roof or walls or the whole thing I personally would add steel band every foot that way the whole thing would fly away and no clean up and it would be ready in no time to dig a basement for a real house
2X6 floor joists?
On top of steel I beams. Does your house have steel I beams?
And 2x2 Trusses
Dennis real were these homes lack the most is the sad floor system, those steel beams your talking about are weak, you can take a saws all and a metal blade and cut threw it in two in a min, cheap china steel. A modular home will cost you 20 to 30 thousand more then a manufactured home for same exact model , and there floor is built like a real house.
I have a hunch anyone will be able to order my home and have it delivered?
Their cabinets arent worth a crap. They are stapled together and the front eventually fails and they break off as they are made of particle board. Better off getting cabinets afterwards.
Walls are made with cealtex (sheathing) and alternate with USB. Which by the way , had two holes drilled into them. Each board. Why ? I have no idea. Not solid walls throughout.
Glad and greatful to have a roof over my head.....but they are not built like a modular although they would like you to think they are. I had to get the place replumbed after only 17 years because they used cheap steel connection. Not stainless but plain steel ! I should not have had to do that at all !
Walls so thin i can hear conversations as if i was in the room
. had to respackle as they used drywall nails instead of the obvious choice of drywall screws.
Nails work their way through over time. The flashing came loose and the nails holding the soffet in place are rusting because they used the wrong kind of nails instead of aluminum.. Everything done on the cheap. Damn shame..
Those studs didn't look like full 2 by 4s, but it's hard to tell on video.
Virginia Moss Yes, they are 2x4 Nominal just like stick built on site houses. 2x3 studs or less still used for travel/ recreational trailers.
@@stevelopez372 - Thanks.
The MH industry REALLY needs to update beyond their "in-house" cabinets and horrible countertops. They're junk and they haven't changed in 30 years.
Did you take a time machine to get to the factory? Why is mobile home decor trapped in 1980?
Why trapped in 1980? Because its only 2019....not time to retool yet. Need to get a firm grip on latest trends first.
Yes lose the ugly wall paper and kitchen cabinets , also use proper trusses in the roof , this thing would never be allowed in Canada.
John cford
Does Canada have mobile home parks? If so can you send me a link. I’m interested in seeing the difference.
I’ve looked at mobile homes, tiny houses, and RVs in Europe. They are 100 times better looking than the American products. The European products costs less too. It’s crazy.
The customer orders the decor.
Dennis
From a selection of outdated decor.
Is manufactured houses the same as mobile homes?
Mobile Homes is what they used to be called back when they were built and sold the same as trailers. They are very different now, so they're called Manufactured Homes. They must meet HUD codes now.
@@OddTimeMan just because they must meet a code doesn't mean they're reliable. Mobile homes are still mobile homes, junk on wheels. Stop trying to sugar coat a sardine can
Pretty much... just costs $20k more.
@@frankmaddalena8570 Your opinion is meaningless unless you back it up with facts.
@@OddTimeMan any trailer park in the world is fact enough. Stop reaching for nothing
Would it be possible to visit your factory when i come to visit my kids in Texas?
most all mobile home factories will allow you to schedule a tour altho this may be a little different with all the covid mess
did I really just see trusses made from 2x2's ??
You probably did, most likely not a solid 2 x 4 anywhere in these homes....junk.
@@goodfriend7609 Your wrong! Had one 20 years. Had 2x6 put in the walls and full OSB outer wall with a solid OSB 3/4 thick tongue and groove floor. That Truss roof is plenty strong enough. I put new shingles on after 20 years and it was rock solid. My stick built home gave me more trouble than my manufactured home. Just don't put them in parks and take care of them and they are fine.
Those 2x2 engineered trusses are stronger than conventional trusses. Each of the gang plates has its own structural value. Every single truss is tested for strength before they leave the truss plant. I know it’s hard to believe and I was skeptical as well until I saw the process.
@@goodfriend7609 well atleast we know you dont know what youre talking about that roof system is stronger than your "real house"
@@accordino86 hand cut rafters are stronger than a truss system. On slate roofs or tile for new high end houses a roof rafter system has to be engineered then built on site.
These homes are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
shut up,,you problably living with inlaws
Having lived in our triple wide for a number of years I can say that new homes are built very well.
@@tonyavila2517 I actually live in a 2,700 sq ft residential "SITE" built home. As a licensed home inspector I was present the whole time my house was constructed. 😎
Actually, modern manufactured housing is built to strict government standards and have to pass rigorous inspections before they leave the plant. They aren't your grandparent's trailer! That can't always be said of stick homes, especially ones built by weekend warriors.
this 2300sf MFH I bought only has 4"outside walls. I dont think ANY MFH should have 4" walls but its an option for NM by HUD rules which is just dumb.
Did you know you should remove your shoes at the door?
Ok so y’all walk around, what is clearly, a construction site barefoot?
this ain't japan
Of course shes belong out of the house...and God's house as well. At least in my house and life. When we go out, we put the shoes on.
Taka Yama
Luckily we don’t have kids, also we sweep and mop every single day... we walk around with shoes.... lol y’all just lazy...
Why do you need to remove shoes?
Ok till he said glued together
But he said safely 😆
One thing I have noticed is the one's built down south suck compared to up north!!!
the ones up north suck too
Not bad for a bunch of glue and stalpes
I am interested. However, the interior look and feel is not very ergonomic. I mean the angles of the finished amenities, like the toilet next to a sink and counter... it just looks a bit rigid and modular. I can't put my observations into words, but it might be like sitting in an entry level car with less effort put into ergonomics and fit and finish, and the same car top level trim from the version with leather and wood paneling. The layouts in what I saw here are a bit too right-angled everywhere. I would be more interested in something with a bit more character. Yes, I assume it would cost more.
LOL..we explored this route but found the value just wasn't there. We had a sight built home done for the same price with better resale value in our area.
exactly! mobile homes go down in value and theres a reason for that. i cant believe people still buy these NEW and pay 100s of thousands of dollars for them in 2019!
@@TheBeaver50 sadly because it's easier to get into a trailer home then a site built home but I will say I had a LGI home and it wasn't a good house at all I ended up selling it paid 125k for the house owed 120k and w was only able to get pay-off on it and no it wasn't an a ugly trashed out home
someone needs to ytp this video
How they do that
These homes are built too cheaply to be moved the odds of it making it to your lot without suffering any damage is slim to none you buy one at your own risk
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2x2 rafters,2x3 studs I don’t think so
Warranty not included.
if i had to live in one, well thats all well and fine..but to purchase one from new..with a mortgage...frigin forget that.
Solitaire Homes are better.
Eh? Wha' that mean? If you mean wha's called "stick" built house, nah, them Mehicanos building just slap them things together on site. Even if the owner is regular old Americann good ole boy.
I can't tell if this video is supposed to be a joke or not... I know it's over 5 years old, but why on earth is the interior of this "showcase" home decorated like my 92 yr old grandmother's house in 1983. So much floral, mirrors, and geometric shapes.... the interviewee even has 80's style glasses... This can't be from 1995+, can it? Much less 2014... if this is real... they should hire someone for their marketing efforts. This video was meh in 1990, it's embarrassing today.
Seems to be pre 2000
Carped inside bathroom
no they are cheap and leak and all the time. had one built and put together. the floor was a 1/2 between the 2 halfs. don't waste your money.
Have to be set up the right way.sounds like someone did a poor job
@@earlwindham5244 mobile homes are junk. Period
I worked where these were built . I bult the inside of the out side wall. We laid studs on a 70ft table with bottom and top plate were stapled to studs. The paneling was glued and stapled to interrior of studs. Used a router to rout around windows and doors. It was so quick.
Frank Maddalena FUK u punk
2x6's are not adequate for floors that cantilever 3 feet beyond the beam, and especially when you don't use joist hangers to stiffen up the bandboard. This guys mobile homes are crap. Cheap ass plastic bathtubs that weigh 10 lbs if they're lucky
I recently purchased a palm harbor new modular home. I sold my site built home a 3/2 pool home block construction. For the same size modular home. Worst decision of my 60+years. The palm harbor home is no comparison to my old home. This place is a piece of shit moldings cut short , every cabinet door is crooked. Toilets don’t flush properly, the entire house is crooked and bent in the middle. I paid 125,000.00. Just appraised for 60,000. Awesome investment. Run from these Pretty places. A Ferrari with a pinto motor
I live in a double wide, got it over 25 yrs ago, would never do it again, have put in REAL WINDOWS,PLUMBING, New cabinets, doors, so just about every damn thing! But the new ones made now are CRAP! They use 2X2s, and 2X4s for the walls, as well as 1X4s in the walls.... I would suggest that if you get a home CUSTOM BUILT, you go down and supervise how it's built!
You are boldfaced lying about the newer homes. Now granted, 25 years ago, you probably did get trash. But today, they are not using 1X4 walls. You realy need to do your research.
@@MatlasX ... lol, I have seen some newer homes,they are junk!!! Some people that have been to my home say that they wish there's was built as good as mine! Most of these new ones leak in air like heck,darn near like a wind tunnel! I am entitled to state my opinion as are you.
Wrong! They're made with 2x6.
Ya-all aint foolin me..without a basement,this high-dollar mobile shed is gonna wind up a tornado target with me inside it!
Chad Simmons Who in the heck would buy and live in a mobile home placed in Tornado alley or Hurricane areas back East. Now if your in Palm Springs in SoCal then your ok, Lol.
Why do i find this video creepy
Because you are one!
What's creepy about some being built?
Similar to fast food can I get some fries with that shake
Watch all 36 videos on TH-cam of NEVER BUY A CLAYTON MANUFACTURED HOME and do not buy a MANUFACTURED home
The only major difference with manufactured homes is they don’t increase in value typically … if one is ok with that they can be a very economical option.
Meanwhile, you could have the same floor plan built with Real Wood for about the same price as these Mobile Homes cost ! Mobile homes are built with junk material . The cabinets are what I call paper board, the subfloor is sawdust board that crumbles when it gets wet, the studs are 2x2's not 2x4's, the drywall is 1/4 inch thick not 1/2 inch like in a real home, and there is no insulation in the walls inside the house. Why buy a home made with junk materials that you'll have major problems with in the first 10 years when you can have a house built with real wood for about the same price that will last a lot longer?
x6.2 There S.B.
My stick build home is crap 💩
Don't waste your money!!! Floors, walls, cabinets, siding, windows junk!!! The companies don't care enter!
Looks like cheap junk !
Lipstick on a 🐖 Pig.
You realize homes like these is all some people can afford?
Megan Morris they don’t realize that not all manufactured homes Or the same if you buy a cheap one less quality A more pricey one higher quality
My son married a woman that was a single mother of two kids. She bought the mobile home / manufactured housing / trailer, because she was recently divorced and supported herself and her two kids without help from a deadbeat ex husband.
Some of the problems during the two years after they got married:
1. Plastic toilets leaked onto fiberboard floor under the cheap vinyl. The fiberboard swelled and soaked up water until the toilet was ready to fall through the floor.
2. Plastic bathtubs and sinks cracked and had to be replaced.
3. Cardboard doors with plastic doorknobs were so thin and light you could blow on it and it would close. You could push your finger through the door.
4. Roof leaks, and more fiberboard flooring rotted under the crappy carpet.
There's plenty more stuff of the same type problems. STAY AWAY FROM THIS CHEAP CRAP. NOTHING BUT A TORNADO MAGNET. You get LESS than what you pay for. MUCH LESS.
Everyone should research mobile homes before they buy one because it's very clear, all mobile homes aren't created equal.
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If you are buying a new or used mobile home go to a manufacturer or individual in a hurricane zone and purchase a mobile home that meets those specs, it's a completely different home than a home built for a non-hurricane zone. FACTS!!!
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Then concentrate on the type foundation you will install the home on. This is one of the top two most important decisions you will make for the life of any home.
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I'm starting a frame up rebuild on a 16x40 mobile home frame in Jan. of 2022 it will be built to Florida's mobile home hurricane specs and the frame will be installed on a normal house pier and beam foundation.
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Why you may ask, well for one reason only. I would like to be able to move the home if I need or want to.
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This is the only way to have a real house that can be moved without having to take a damn home loan out just to move it. A couple big bottle jacks, a couple wrenches, a couple buddies and a days work an it's ready to be moved.
Uh no thank you
Showing all the trade secrets to building piece of shit homes and then charging out the ass for them.
they may be built nice, but the delivery trip turns them into splinters
ewwwwww
Maxine Waters Ewww you’re bl@ck !
The average manufactured house will only last 30 years. A good one 50 years. I would never buy a manufactured house. They are pieces of 💩
@Tony Brown maybe . . . but I wouldn't want to pass a piece of 💩 to my kids.