If you are planning on building your dream home, you might start to wonder about possible benefits of owning a modular home. Why should you build in this way instead of going the traditional route?

Are there enough benefits to modular homes to make it worth your while to build your home in this way? Yes, there definitely are. Let’s look at some of the practical reasons to choose a custom-built home.

Cost Effective
You can save a lot of money when you build a modular home instead of a traditional site-built home. For a home of the same size and quality, you can expect to pay between 20% and 30% less for a modular home than you would pay for building traditional homes.

Energy Efficient
But the savings doesn’t stop after your home has been built. Even after you live in the home you will still keep saving because you have chosen a modular home. Modular homes tend to be more energy-efficient than site-built homes.

The first reason is the insulation of modular homes. The house is better insulated, and the heating and cooling costs will be less than with a home that is traditionally built. As an added bonus, these walls will also add strength to your home.

You also won’t waste as much material when building your home as you could waste building in a traditional way. Modular homes are built in factories to exact specifications. For traditional homes, people order materials and, often, there are some left over. Or, they don’t fit where they should fit and the materials are wasted. These issues are eliminated with modular builds.

Modular homes also generally use LED or CFL bulbs, which are more energy-efficient than the incandescent light bulbs used in most traditional homes.

High Quality
This all sounds wonderful. But you might wonder, are these modular homes just as safe and built to the same standard as homes that are built on site? Again, the answer is yes. These homes need to be built to exactly the same standards as a home built on site.

Marks of high-quality standards in customized modular homes include:

Modular homes can take the same load in pounds by square foot put on the structure as traditionally built homes.
Modular homes can handle the same downward force that snow and ice can put on a house.
Custom-built modular homes have the same plumbing and electrical safety standards as other houses.
Financing qualifications are the same as or very similar to other houses.