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Building Site - Egress

When you build a modular home, you will need to make sure the modules can be delivered to the building site. Often people do not take this into consideration and forget the potential costs to accessing the site. You will also have to have your permanent egress installed for when the home is complete.

The cost incurred to deliver the modules to a difficult site could cost thousands of dollars more than delivering a home to an existing development.

In addition to clearing access to the site you will also incur cost to prepare a temporary road. You will need to have number 2P stone delivered and spread on your access. You will need around four inches of stone to support the crane, the toter and the modules.

A site that is not prepared correctly could cost you or the builder thousands of dollars on the day of set.

Nightmare Egress

At one set I attended, I watched the builders profit fly away due to poor egress planning. The building site had a steep grade where the toters could not position the modules close to the foundation for the set. A small bull dozer was required to pull the boxes close to the crane. The night before the set we had rain that soaked a mud road to the site. The rain eliminated the possibility of using the small dozer so a larger dozer had to be ordered. The crane had a difficult time getting into location close to the foundation. Once the crane did get into place, there was no pad for the out riggers which required a load of stone to be delivered to stop the crane from sinking. The slope of the access road was to steep for the long carriers the modules were setting on. When the dozer pulled the first unit up to the site, the bottom of the carrier dragged leading to excessive drywall cracking. The list can go on with this nightmare, but the bottom line is the investment to prepare a building site for easy delivery will keep a modular home completion price lower in the long run.

New Builders and Egress

A new modular home builder who is not familiar with all of the problems that can occur with building a modular home will often forget some very expensive construction components. A guy I know named Eric Brigs once told me that he could not care less if the builder would get stung from poor planning. What he did not consider is that a builder could be crippled from oversights of low ball bidding. The cheapest price could also provide a builder with enough money for air fare to Mexico. The lowest price is not the best price when it comes to preparing a building site for the modules to be delivered.