Re: [GBlist] Green Modular Home -Portland

[Alan Courtright <acourtri@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Ted Shelton wrote:

>              This is how the difference was explained to me by a dealer. If 
> the frame sits "back" under the side of the home it is a MOBILE. The steel 
> frame of a modular is on the edge of the walls and is set on a conventional 
> style foundation. Both are built in the same manner, using the same nasty 
> urea, formaldehyde, PVCs, foams, glues and VOL ingredients. To get that cost 
> per square, they aren't worrying about our health OR the Earth. Plus, like a 
> auto, they are worth 1/2 the minute they roll off the "lot". They fill a 
> need, but you can't kiss em and turn them into a prince.

What was the dealer a dealer OF?  Sounds like a definition created by a
dealer in mobile homes/mfd homes.  From what I've read, the modular has no
steel frame at all.
                         -|//*Alan Courtright*\\|=   
                                Poulsbo, WA
                             acourtri@krl.org
                       



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