While slightly less pressing than determining your needs, determining your wants are also important. Your Container House wants should be listed in order from greatest importance to least, keeping in mind that some wants are items that can be added at a later date. If you are tired of cleaning carpets, and you want hardwood or laminate floors, note this. If you'd like a bathroom with space for a shower and a tub, keep this in mind. If granite countertops is something you've always dreamed of, remember this as well.
Signature Building Systems is a leading manufacturer of custom designed, pre-site built homes. The Pennsylvania based business has completed over 4,500 projects throughout the eastern seaboard – everything from ranches and capes to two-story homes and special, custom designed floor plans, as well as estate homes, multi-family residences, hotels, and even entire apartment complexes.
Whatever the project, Signature can work with the customer’s builder to get it done. The manufacturing process takes place at a state-of-the-art plant built with the sole intention of being a custom modular home manufacturing facility. How is this different to most our competition? Their facilities are converted from the old mobile home industry, rail car industry, or something similar to that. We were able to design our building with the sole intention of being a custom home manufacturer; as a result, we’re able to do some things differently. Our plant's entire structure was laid out with efficiency in mind, with each workstation carefully positioned to increase productivity. Our jigs, our mezzanines, our bridge cranes are positioned in such a way that they serve a number of departments, so we are able to move our material more efficiently.
Our Moosic, PA facility also features the modular industry’s latest, most advanced technology. Some of this special equipment allows Signature’s craftsmen to pre-fit sections, components, and even entire roofs before the structure is shipped to its destination. We will pitch the roof in our plant to make sure it fits. We will put the gable end panels in to make sure they fit and then we will disassemble them. This extra level of care ensures that the home will reassemble perfectly once it reaches the site. It also sets Signature apart from its competitors.
Every step of the manufacturing process takes place inside the plant’s controlled environment. The product is built in our facility from start to finish. This means that all materials, from lumber and sheet rock to insulation and shingles, are protected from the weather – and, the staff can work every single day in comfortable conditions, regardless of whether it is raining, snowing, freezing cold, or sweltering hot outside. Removing weather delays from the equation helps the team maintain a predictable, and relatively rapid, timeline. Typically, it only takes about eight days to build one module and the entire process – from hammering the first nail to turning over the keys – usually takes around 100 days.
With you list of needs and wants at hand, you are ready to begin looking for your home. Searching for a home plan online makes the process much less intimidating. Most websites that offer home plans for sale, or websites for kit home manufacturers, allow you to search floor plans by square footage, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, and even design style. This makes finding the perfect home for your family much simpler by eliminating having to search through thousands of plans, many nowhere near what you need, just to find plans that are what you need.