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Considerations when Purchasing Prefab Homes

With the rise in housing costs and the development of new technologies, prefab homes are becoming increasingly popular throughout Canada. In the past the thought of prefabricated housing usually went hand in hand with negative connotations. These days however you’ll find things have changed and while there are still $20k mobile homes on the market,…

Modern Quonset Housing

Modern quonset homes have come a LONG way since Sears once sold them through their catalog. Today’s quonset movement has captured the spirit and imagination of a new generation of architects and home buyers, who together have championed a variety of modern modular dwellings that challenge preconceptions about “quonset” homes as cheap, cookie-cutter structures of…

What is Quonset Housing?

Quonset housing, for many of us, conjures up visions of being stuck behind half a house drug along the highway to its next space. Sadly “trailer trash” is part of our modern vocabulary. Thankfully Quonset housing today is far more than ugly oversized trailers. The first documented Quonset house was the Manning Portable Cottage. It…

Modular Quonset Steel Housing Kits

Modular quonset buildings are sectional buildings prefabricated off-site in a factory in a similar way to mobile homes, but there are many differences between the two. Each modular quonset house consists of several different sections called modules. A module is a six sided box that can be placed or stacked in a variety of different…

Prefab Green Homes- An Eco Friendly Solution

Over the last few years people have become more aware of the “eco friendly” nature of the products they buy and the services they consume. When they buy houses or engage the services of workmen they want to be sure that the parts and materials that are being used on their behalf are also eco…

Quonset Prefabricated Homes

Quonset homes also known as prefabricated homes or prefab homes are easy to build, eco-friendly, affordable and customizable alternatives to traditionally constructed homes which can cost over 30 percent less than their traditional counterparts. Quonset Steel Buildings are constructed off site and the pre-made panels are transported to the site of construction where building crews…