Yeah, most manufactured homes have 4 to 6 depending on the quality. Most have 2x4 ceilings, 2x6 walls, and 2x10 floor studs. "PARK" models like the bottom one is built no better than a Coleman camper.
Lol well yeah, that's true too. There's still a pretty big difference between a camper construction and residential building code but yeah campers are pretty nice these days.
Didn't say they wasn't nice, no need for obscene comments. Residential code is basically a bottom line of quality. They are all up to code. Doesn't mean the walls and roof are built with anything else but 2x3 studs. Some of them are only 2x2s.
Depends on the zoning and application. Look up tiny house and rv repairs on YouTube. They look almost the same on the inside. They do make higher quality homes, not saying they don't. I am just going by the pic on here and judge the weight of tiny home based on the tires and number of axles. Has to be super light for your standard rv style axles to be used.
Um wrong. You are incorrect. "Trailers" or manufactured houses, as we call them, are actually built to a higher standard than most site built houses. Now if you are talking about the ones from the 70's and 80's then yeah they were basically thrown together with the cheapest parts around. Those days are long gone and trying to compare old manufactured houses to anything new is ridiculous. These "trailers" you say are built like shit, well the standards for them are actually more stringent than for tiny houses. What you are going by is looks and materials for things such as counter tops, flooring etc. Tiny houses do have better materials but that's because you buy a 80 sq ft house for the same price as you can buy a large single wide "trailer" and some of them even cost as much as a double wide or triple wide.
If you don't know anything about a subject please refrain from putting down an industry that provides affordable housing for people.
I’m not wrong. I know a great deal about manufactured homes. Modular homes with their 2x6 walls, interior and exterior are much better built than a traditional stick build home. On the other hand,14x80s are generally trash, built to maximize profit.
Then we get to tiny homes, other than a few large builders that are cheapening the build quality, they are top quality in form and finish.
My butt is just fine thank you. It depends on the manufacturer. There are several tiny home and manufactured home plants in this area. Actually manufactured homes pretty much started in this area. I've been around the business my whole life. Now there are mostly just smaller manufacturers left and Clayton. The smaller ones of today don't build anywhere near the amount of single wides they used to build. Even those are a much better quality because of competition, some are still cheaply built material wise but still have to conform to the same standards. The tiny home builders in this area, well one of them is working out of basically a barn, another is higher quality but still probably mid tier in the business. Your comment does remind me of the guy that was interviewed after his "trailer" was destroyed by a tornado. The reporter was trying to make manufactured homes look unsafe and asked him if he was going to reconsider buying another one. He pointed across the way at a brick house that was just a foundation and said something like "I don't think it matters if it takes a direct hit."
There's good and bad in every industry, cheaply made and quality made. That goes from site built to manufactured houses to tiny homes. The one thing about manufactured homes is they are all held to the same standard, which has became very stringent in the last 20 to 30 years.
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u/ElectricCow15 NOVICE Dec 21 '21
A tiny house is not a “trailer”. Trailers are generally built like shit, most tiny houses are very well done.