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| The Modular Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Gianino
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 147894
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 1
ISBN: 1580175260
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.2
EAN: 9781580175265
ASIN: 1580175260
Publication Date: February 15, 2005
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Product Description
Home buyers and house architects agree: the most exciting things on the housing market today are modular homes. They can be built and reach move-in condition in just a few weeks, and they offer a host of customizing possibilities.
Now Andy Gianino, founder and president of The Home Store, the largest dealer of modular homes in the Northeast, has written a comprehensive handbook for prospective modular home buyers. The book is packed with everything you need to know about buying and building a modular home--or a modular addition to your existing home.
Gianino dispels the misconceptions about the limitations of modular homes and shows potential buyers that a modular home can be as good as, if not better than, houses built with traditional stick-frame construction. Then he gets down to the nitty-gritty: choosing a dealer, working with a general contractor, selecting a floor plan, choosing the customized details, even planning the landscaping around the house. Throughout the book the emphasis is on top-quality materials and cost-effective measures to ensure that the buyer gets their dream home at a great price. What's more, this book is equally useful for anyone already in the modular business or looking to get in as a dealer, manufacturer, designer, or specialized general contractor.
Illustrated throughout with a 16-page fullcolor insert, plus a host of house plans, The Modular Home shows home buyers how going modular can expand their choices, save time, save money, and prove to be more durable than conventionally-built houses.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Pre Fabricated Homes August 17, 2008
This book is great for anyone who wants to learn the basics of investing in a Modular Home. I would recommend this to anyone who thinks they may be interested in purchasing a Modular. The book will educate you on everything you will need before you meet with a builder. If money and quality is a concern, don't sit down with a builder before you read this.
 Very Good Resource April 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every detail is covered in this book. I wanted to know as much detail as I could get my hands on so I knew what questions to pose to my builder. My builder told me everything he would do and it matched all that I read in this book I like the fact that the author shares his mistakes to illustrate how complex the process is but also to show how he learned. I think it also shows a great degree of honesty.
I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who wants to build a modular home.
Very good resource May 2, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a useful book on modular building with lots of practical advice.
a minor point, but nonetheless... January 22, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Before there were modular homes, there were Sears kit homes (which were pre-cut, NOT prefab). And while I was gladdened to see that Sears kit homes got an honorable mention in "The Modular Home", I was disappointed to see an erroneous fact.
Sears did NOT sell 100,000 of their kit homes, as is mentioned on page eight, but less than 75,000. And of these 75,000 (or less), many have already been torn down or ruined through insensitive remodeling.
All that aside, I do believe that modular homes are the wave of the future. And Sears (and others) started that trend in the early 1900s with their pre-fabricated Simplex Sectionals (very different from their pre-cut homes). These Simplex Sections were sold and shipped in sections, to be bolted together at the job site.
Rose Thornton
author, The Houses That Sears Built
The Modular Home January 15, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the book for my husband for a Christmas present. He is raving about the book, telling me how useful it is in planning for our retirement home, to be built in the near future. He reads parts of it to me as he finds especially good ideas. He plans to re-read and make notes for future use. It is one of the best Christmas gifts I have given him, and will be invaluable in dealing with the people and materials involved in assembling our future home.
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