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Originally Posted by Biggd
Modular would save some money but I'm not convinced the final product is of the same quality as stick built. A buddy of mine had a modular home built about 10 years ago and everything needs replacing already, doors, windows, appliances, heating system, All the cheapest products were used to keep the price down and last just long enough to get past the warrantee.
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Modular is the go-to build in "Hurricane Country".
About half of the stick-built homes in my Florida subdivision didn't survive Hurricane Irma.
One, that did survive, had a steel garage door crushed into a ball, then three walls downstairs subsequently blew out.
All of the homes, including the three new modular homes, did suffer water damage to the interior (drywall).
Unforeseen was that (the usual) soffit vents opened up the interior to wind-driven rain- and salt-water which thoroughly soaked the interior drywall.
(My homeowner-built, stick-built home didn't have or need soffit vents).
The new modulars' doors and windows held, but all the modular homes
did lose some roofing materials off their roofs.
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