Fully assembled houses have been popular in rural areas for decades. Whenever I see a fully assembled house trundling down the highway with the wire lift truck in front and the pilot vehicle with the "Wide Load" sign behind it, I wonder why they never use them for new city builds. House movers often work to lift old houses on to new basements in old neighborhoods in Calgary, so they have experience with urban streets.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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Yup I see them too. Before we bought our place we actually looked at prefab. They are not what people think (trailer park) nowadays. I mean you can go with a really cheap builder and the quality isn’t great. But lots of the prefab builders we looked at build quality homes. You can go full custom within the shapes and sizes they offer. It’s incredible. They are structurally much sturdier because of the transport as well. We were super impressed. We just couldn’t find a piece of land and ended up buying an existing acreage. I would totally go for prefab though if I need a new house. Just for the fact that’s it’s built indoors and not by traveling trades and exposed to the elements during build.