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2. The cheapest ways to build a house, and the most ... - AOL

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   Prefab homes: Modular or manufactured homes are more affordable because their structures are partially built off-site, rather than building a fully custom house on-site. Tiny homes: A tiny home ...

3. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   Construction of a prefabricated modular home (see also time-lapse video)Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.

4. Modular building - Wikipedia

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   Modular homes are built to either local or state building codes as opposed to manufactured homes, which are also built in a factory but are governed by a federal building code. [22] The codes that govern the construction of modular homes are exactly the same codes that govern the construction of site-constructed homes.

5. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

6. Manufactured housing - Wikipedia

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   Some modern modular homes, once fully assembled, are indistinguishable from site-built homes. In addition, modular homes: must conform to the same local, state and regional building codes as homes built on-site; are treated the same by banks as homes built on-site. They are easily refinanced, for example; must be structurally approved by ...

7. Modular construction - Wikipedia

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   The magnitude and complexity of such will vary depending on the size, and overall weight of the structure. Therefore, the weight difference of a traditionally built house and a prefabricated structure will mean that foundations needed will be smaller and faster to build. Off-site manufacturing is the pinnacle of modular construction. The ...