From: James W 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house misc.invest.real-estate
Subject: Re: possible construction cost savings?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:23:37 -0700

Log cabins are often "built" at a factory, then the pieces are marked 
and disassembled. I put quotes on "built", because cabin isn't 
"finished", but rather just the shell is built.

v wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:50:30 -0500, someone wrote:
> 
> 
>>...the house which will be built in a shop,
>>disassembled, and rebuilt on site by......
>>
> 
> Are you sure this is being reported correctly?  There are several
> types of prefabrication in common use.  Complete "mobile home" or
> "manufactured" (current euphemism) units, "modular" homes where
> several boxes are joined together on site, "panelized" construction
> where flat panels are shipped out and then assembled on site, and
> "pre-cut" where all the pieces are sent out for on-site assembly (you
> could also get this from Sears Roebuck 100 years ago).
> 
> In NONE of this is the home first assembled and then dis-assembled.
> That would seem like extra work plus damage to the materials.
> Something doesn't sound right here.
> 
> -v.