Which is better; a stick "Site Built" home or a manufactured "Factory Built" home?
This is a huge swath across the field of home building. There are so many variables on both sides, and one can easily be better than the other. It all depends on options chosen to be done to the home! They both can have 2x4 interior walls, 2x6 exterior walls, heavy trim out packages, and the same fixture options. 
Once we peel all many choices back and just get to the core of the basic home, it is about the same. Lets assume the home is built to standards chosen to be identical to each other. The major differential is going to be simplicity, speed, costs, location to where it will sit, and of course are you wanting a GREEN footprint!
SIMPLICITY: A stick "Site Built" home has many working parts on the lot, and many things can happen to slow it up, and drive price up. The weather makes for many challenges to get each contractor type on schedule without delaying the other. There are many working parts that can be cumbersome and frustrating. A manufactured "Factory Built" home is pretty simple. It is built in a controlled environment, each place on the line has a system down to make it flow smoothly, and there are no outside influences effecting anything. Once the colors and options are chosen, it is just ordered and delivered, and set up in a couple days.
SPEED: A stick "Site Built" home is 3 to 18 months on average. Weather plays a big roll in if they work that day. When one crew goes over the time to complete as task, another crew may have already been booked and then the customer just waits for the crew to work their way back in to do the job. It can also be very slow when building in the country. It takes a long time to coordinate sub contractor crews to drive out 90 miles to do a job each day. Not to mention the added costs! A manufactured "factory built" home is constructed in a factory where the building conditions are perfect, everything is organized to run smoothly down a construction line, there is no waiting for crews or parts, and the average construction time can be as fast a a few days to a few weeks.
COSTS: A stick "Site Built" home will cost more. This is just a short statement! A manufactured "Factory Built" home will be less. There are no trip charges for crews, much less waist of materials. Typical manufactured home has less than 5% waist. Many are now as low as 1%. No theft loss on the job site, and importantly, the materials are bought in huge bulk, and costs are less per item. All this with the efficiency of the same guy doing the same thing on a factory line is very cost efficient.
LOCATION: When considering a home in the country, you must look at what is involved in getting materials and contractor crews out to the site location every day. This could be a 30-100 mile drive each way. The logistics sometimes just make it impossible to do anything but a manufactured "Factory Built" home.
Is being GREEN important? Lets remember we are living in a world where it is important to be aware of leaving a world to our kids and others that is sustainable, and healthy. It is trendy too, but mostly we must start with doing what we can to make the future the best it can be. Building a home that is GREEN is a good start! Not many can say they have a GREEN home, very energy efficient and all done typically at lower costs. A manufactured "factory built" home does this! This is all good, but one other aspect of being GREEN is also having a home that is energy efficient. Be sure to order your home with all the upgraded options that allow you to have an 'Energy Star" rated home! The option costs are very low to what you get in utility savings and comfort in the home. I hope the comparable's are as clear to you as they are to me. Low costs, more simple, faster, and energy efficient is all a good thing when considering which to type home to build.
Brett Swearingen
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