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Living like a King in your Prefab Home

Not sure about building castles in the sky, but prefab homes are built on the ground. In fact, a series of dreams are constructed in a factory & shipped to the site. Not only are today’s prefabricated homes reliable, dependable and affordable, they are also a homeowners little castle. Every detail can be customized to make the homeowner feel like a king in his own kingdom. Feeling like a king involves a deal of physical & mental comfort which comes quite easily with a prefab home. Maintenance costs are low & one can afford to go a little overboard with accessories and a decor that pampers. So, a prefab home is a big step towards living like a king.

A palace is either the official residence of an exalted person or the splendid house of anyone who is blessed to feel like a king. A prefabricated house provides you with the flexibility & economy to design your hall maybe not with the size but definitely with the grandeur of a palace. All your decorative pieces should have a story, either relating to a relative or friend or an experience. If it isn’t something created by an artist or designer, it should be something memorable you brought home on the plane from Italy or the flea market in Tokyo. The secret is in the design, so create a living space with lots of windows & mirrors, white or shades of white make spaces look bigger.

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Solar Hot Water Showers for your Prefabricated House

Solar shower systems use energy from the sun to heat water at zero cost and produce no carbon pollution. While they cost more to buy than electric or gas water heaters, a solar hot water system will pay for itself depending on your household's hot water use.  

Home sweet home

How often do we hear of sayings like ''No place like home'' or ''Home sweet home''? A lot of use in today’s times lead stressful & busy lives spending long hours in our offices or even on out of town travel. How many times these sayings may be passing through our minds as we live in a pressure environment or out of a suitcase. Now imagine the hope in our hearts when that home is actually very comfortable and warm, then there is a high chance it is a prefab home. 

These homes are built in a modern controlled environment and are precision engineered for a lifetime of trouble-free structural durability. To add to the value they are cost-effective, energy efficient & easy to maintain. Besides, who would say no to peace of mind? We all do have a right to dream & dreams can be built in to prefabricated houses. 

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Prefab dream house comes true: Castle of Steel

Castle of Steel and Cement

Today's prefab homes are reliable, affordable and eco-friendly. They are a homeowners little steel castle, adding to the community as they are built in numbers, while at the same time delivering warmth and coziness to the owners. Prefab is little castle of steel or cement, dream come true.

Prefab has been utilized since ancient times. It is claimed that the world's oldest known  engineered roadway, the Sweet Track constructed in England around 3800 BC, employed prefabricated timber sections brought to the site rather than assembled on-site. Good example of iron prefab construction is the Crystal Palace, erected in London in 1851.

Most widely-used form of prefab in building is the use of prefabricated concrete and prefabricated steel sections in structures. Constructing the formwork required to mould concrete components on site and delivering wet concrete to the site can be difficult. Idea behind is the method reduces time, avoids need to bring many skilled workers to the construction site. And other restricting conditions such as a lack of power, lack of water, exposure to harsh weather or a hazardous environment are avoided

Prefabricating steel sections reduces on-site cutting and welding costs as well as the associated hazards.

Pouring concrete sections in a factory brings the advantages of being able to re-use moulds and the concrete can be mixed on the spot without having to be transported and pumped wet on a construction site. Same technique method are used in the construction of apartments and housing developments .

The quality of prefab housing units have improved to the point that they may not be distinguishable from traditionally-built units to those that live in them.

Prefab economy

Prefab homes have been around for decades and have revolutionized functional, affordable housing. For its time, it has been incredibly cost efficient compared to the on-site building processes of today, which can exhaust more than 30% of building materials.

Prefab housing construction saves time because these homes are largely constructed off-site, the deconstruction of previous buildings and laying of the foundation can happen at the same time as much of the construction. This efficiency means that homes can be built in as few as three months. It would be rare to find a contractor able to put up a stick-built home in that time.

Some claim that prefab homes are cheaper than conventional homes and some don’t.  In any event, prefab homes have shorter construction times, reduced labor costs, less waste and potential savings from volume discounts that can pass on savings to the home buyer.   They are also cheaper to build in remote areas and in areas with high labor costs.

The variable price of labor has a lot to do with fluctuating home building costs. In a boom economy, labor costs go up, which means that prefab’s benefit of cheaper labor results in greater savings than in a poor economy, when contractors are willing to work for less.

It is important to note, however, the more complex the design and specs, the more money your home will cost you. Other factors to consider such as electricity, plumbing, duct-work are often not factored into the initial pricing, so your final cost may be 20% more than what the builder is quoting you. You may need to install a septic system, install natural gas or a basement, these too will add to your bottom line.

Rather than overload our landfills, however, contemporary architectural firms and design companies are rethinking what prefab means for today's waste-conscious and energy-savvy homebuyers. Many are combining traditional modular concepts with a customized approach, allowing clients to select a basic design and alter it according to their tastes.