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In time, these houses won't be as ugly and more will be able to be produced in shorter periods of time. I'd expect these innovations to be available soon, too. Say three to five years. Affordable homes are much needed here in the U.S. I expect some entrepreneur here will figure out how to make that work very soon.

I am more intrigued by a 3-D printed home than by the tiny house 'movement'.

Posted by Bulldog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 20:04 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Actually producing the house isn't what makes homes unaffordable. It's all the payoffs to the local planning officials. Official payoffs (permits) and the under the table payoffs.

#1 JKB on 2014-04-27 21:11 (Reply)

Perhaps that is a good portion of the cost. House behind me ran $400,000 to put up. Sold, eventually, for $1.4mm (other costs incurred, of course. Purchase was $400,000. Not sure how much the other payoffs were, if any. Taxes were significant, though I have no idea what they were.

Point is, $5,000 to just build and 10 in one day? There's a huge profit waiting for someone who is creative enough.

#1.1 Bulldog on 2014-04-27 21:18 (Reply)

They remind me of the houses made from prefabbed concrete that where going to be the big thing 50+ years ago, the modular homes of 30 years ago etc. While commerical construction is quick to pick up on things, zoning boards etc are not when its residential.

#2 walt moffett on 2014-04-27 21:26 (Reply)

I agree that it's coming but disagree that it will reduce prices any. The machine will require a very level building site to work in, the transportation and set up won't be free and the maintenance won't be cheap. Because it will have to use low slump concrete it will be slow and concrete isn't cheap either.
Even with conventional framing or block walls the exterior walls go up pretty fast and cheap anyway, it's everything else that takes so long and cost so much.
I used to build 2 story houses on 9' pilings. We set 18 piles, framed, sided, installed windows and doors, roof and shingles and 2 sets of stairs in 6 days with 6 guys. The rest of the house took 3 or 4 months to finish.

#3 FRP on 2014-04-27 21:32 (Reply)

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