LX.com’s Caryn Greenhut meets with designer Marmol Radziner to discuss his innovative green pre-fab homes.

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Chapters cover the reality of log homes, preparing logs, designing your log home, estimating construction costs, your building site, gathering materials and labor, excavating and laying your foundation, building floors and decks, preparing for log construction, building log walls, installing windows and doors, adding a second story, installing rafters and trusses, roofing your log home, finishing and maintaining your log home. Includes a comprehensive list of… More >>

Price: $50.48
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Building a Log Home from Scratch or Kit

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3-D Home Kit (by Daniel K. Reif, author/inventor) The hardest part of planning a new home, addition or remodeling project is visualizing how the final results will actually look and work. The 3-D Home Kit includes complete poster-board building materials—from brick, stone, siding, roofing and decking to windows, doors, skylights, kitchen cabinets and appliances—to construct a detailed, 1/4-inch scale, three-dimensional model of your own building project. Th… More >>

Price: $26.37
Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)

3-D Home Kit: All You Need to Construct a Model of Your Own Home or Addition

Top Modular Manufacturer Leading the Charge on Home Sprinkler Systems in Pennsylvania
The recent Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code Review and Advisory Council’s vote to mandate the placement of sprinklers in all new one- and two-family residences and townhomes built in Pennsylvania will take effect on January 1, 2011, but Camp Hill, Pa.-based modular home manufacturer Excel Homes isn’t waiting that long.

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Shows the quality construction, custom design options and beauty of a Westchester Modular Home

Fire destroys Cringila granny flat
Forensic services are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a granny flat in Cringila last night.

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Granny Flats and the Cost Advantages

Granny Flats make a great extra area for relative units or a place for your teenager. The best thing is that it has several advantages over other buildings. One major reason why they are so popular is there low cost construction. But granny flats still can have great quality.

The cost of a granny flat stays low because of several reasons. The main reason for keeping the cost down is that they are constructed in a factory. A mass production of the frames saves a lot of expense on materials and labor. The frame and other components can be cut to size in the factory. The workers are all located in one location which will cut down on travel cost and workers will be able to help each other out when needed.

The possibilities of having theft at the building site would be highly reduced. So the replacement cost and time savings would be an advantage to keep the price low.

Granny flats can be constructed relatively fast, giving it an edge over other construction techniques. Granny flats usually have a simple construction keeping the cost down as well.

Delivery cost can be lower as well. Since the granny flats components are constructed off site all the components can be delivered at once. One trip of course is cheaper than multiple trips.

A few costs to keep in mind is the sub-contractors you may have to hire to put the kit granny flat together. Also, you may need to have someone to hook up the electric and plumbing. Some builders you will not have to worry about this.

Although you may have a few extra costs here and there you will probably find that this is a great way to get a granny flat. Next step is to find a builder to work with.