I would love someone who knows about housing construction to tell me if modular, prefab construction has an risks for housing quality, particularly in the long term. Legitimately would like to know more.
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Mark Carney
We will get Canada’s housing supply up so your housing costs come down.
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Am I glad that Indigenous peoples have shelter? Yes. Do I want colonialism to end? Big yes.
https://youtu.be/26iVJfiDgP0?si=318IEitq3T7RvRhp
the usual way now is to make basically house legos, huge structural components, which are standardized and made to a high degree of precision
https://wigo.info/clt-prefab-houses
so beautiful, wish we had this brand here
i am probably gonna use straw-bale SIPs when we build our cabin some day
Gonna go look straw-bale now
sometimes they also put siding and stuff on at factory but not usually
there are companies that do “modules” but they’re not cheaper. this is.
much much easier to rapidly assemble SIPs etc on-site
Shipping modules across the whole of US might not be ideal but I'm guessing there's room for a couple of manufacturers in just about every state
do you know what kinda thing they used, was it panels?
And yeah, I meant not unique as distinct from the zillion dollar rich people houses, that are probably still not as one off as the owners think. Builders are always going to reuse what they know.
they don’t always use foam as the insulation, you can get them with other types of insulation
I don't think there's an inherent direct relationship between cost and quality and so much depends on societal priorities.
There is a reason why it's hard to find pre-fabricated modulars in Canada.
You'll find em in Florida and the south more generally.
But cost and practicality constraints reduce their long-term sustainability in countries like Canada.