Cheaper, faster, probably more durable. Modular homes are gaining favor among those Californians who lost their homes in last year's wildfires. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports:
When construction workers raised the white plastic sheet to reveal a portion of his new house, Art Ramirez had to take a closer look.
Clad in a white hard hat, Ramirez strode across his cleared dirt lot to peer inside his nearly finished kitchen, with its white cabinets, quartz countertop and stainless steel refrigerator already in place. The room belongs to one of two 50-foot-long sections of his factory-built house, each part of which was lowered by crane last week onto a concrete foundation on Ramirez’s property in Coffey Park.
Ramirez, a registered nurse, said he’d been thinking for months about the idea of a house assembled in a factory near Sacramento and trucked over in two 30,000-pound sections to Santa Rosa. But, he said, “to see the actual product on site is just crazy.”
