How to Build a House; A Slightly Different Twist

Alot of people have commented on our little house, and are suprised when we tell them that part of it was built as a modular home in Idaho, and then brought over and placed on a daylight basement. The whole house from start to finish took less then 13 weeks to build and for us to move in, and is as good and we think better than a stick built house. The crane operators said that we had the rolls royce of modular houses, based on the weight far exceeding other houses they move, plus other builders have said that the type of material used and the specs are the same for non-manufactured houses. Us? Well we just like it because it fits us, our budget and it doesn't look like a shoe box with doors. The best part of this is that we got to design everything from scratch (thanks Scratch), and even added a laundry chute from our bedroom to the laundry down stairs. Here is a photo essay of the steps of building our house. Notice the MIL door (sorry Joan):)
SSG Oz

Breaking ground, and laying forms

Building foundation

Forming daylight basement walls

Bringing in top part of house.

Using crane to off load house segments

Tying parts together

Inside of house, notice joist spacings.

Upstairs

Shaping roof

Siding house together

View of house from back including MIL door.

Finished house from front








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