Glossary
Plan Your Build
By walking through guided experience, you’ll receive a standard estimate that helps set realistic budget expectations in the earliest stages of your planning.
An Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is a self-contained, smaller residential living unit located on the same lot as a primary, single-family home.
A designated, safe emergency exit route like a window or door which is designed for quick escape in emergencies like fires.
This is an umbrella term and includes the following: Installing any siding, trim, flooring, and doors that could not be installed at the factory.
Concrete-filled steel pipes placed in the basement or crawl space to provide permanent support for the main structural beams
Modules are large, pre-engineered sections of a house that are constructed indoors in a controlled factory setting.
Off-site production for modular homes is a construction method where box-like sections (modules) of a home are designed, engineered, and built in a controlled factory environment.
A $250 service to sharpen an estimate to reflect the specific characteristics of your unique building lot.
We deliver the precast concrete panels a few weeks prior to the arrival of your modular home, and set the panels in place using a crane.
Set Day is a highly coordinated milestone in modular home construction when factory-built modules are delivered to the site, lifted by a crane, and permanently placed onto the prepared foundation
A pressure-treated timber beam anchored directly onto the top of the foundation wall.
Homebuyers are responsible for hiring a local civil engineering firm to survey their property and prepare a Site Plan. This document will outline finer details of the lot, including location of existing or proposed underground utilities. Site Plans must be submitted to local Planning & Zoning in order to be awarded a building permit.
An overview of Turnkey pricing and scope of work involved in installing a particular home model on a typical, relatively straightforward building lot.
A traditional, site-constructed house built from the ground up using wood framing (or “sticks”) on a permanent foundation.
A safety system sometimes required by local code that secures the home to anchors in the foundation using heavy-duty steel straps to prevent it from being vulnerable to high winds.
NOTE: modular homes are NOT steel framed. They are wood framed.
Superior Walls offers precast concrete foundation systems that are set in place with a crane. Superior Walls are pre-insulated, extraordinarily water-tight, warrantied, and pre-plumbed for wiring– making eventual finishing of the basement easy and straightforward.
A traditional build is a site-constructed house built from the ground up, piece-by-piece, using wood framing (or “sticks”) on a permanent foundation.