Sorry, got sidetracked…
I do that, I get busy with something else and get sidetracked.
Let’s see, we met with the one modular dealer, gave him our floor plans, gave him some input on colors and carpeting and other stuff and waited for them to come back with factory floor-plans and a quote.
Got their floor-plans back and said “what the heck?”. They messed up parts of it…important parts. Things like the doorway from the kitchen being aligned with the doorway to the pantry, the boys’ rooms being mostly the same size…things like that. There were easily a half-dozen issues. Hubby got on the phone with the dealer and discussed issues and they went back to the drawing board….and sent us something a bit more acceptable.
We’ve still got some compromises…like, they would be putting in the plumbing for the tub in the master bath, but we would get the tub put in ourselves, because they don’t do 6′ tubs. Other minor issues, but things we can live with.
So, while we were waiting for all of that to get worked out, we send our floor-plans to a friend from church, who is a builder/contractor. He looks into his contacts and finds a modular dealer he’s happy with and gets some information from them. He gets some additional information from us, goes back to them, and gets an initial quote…that is currently fairly close to the modular dealer above.
I think we are really hoping things work out with our friend. If the modular company he’s working with can come up with something comparable, it sounds like they can do more customizing…like, maybe we can get the 6′ tub and the tankless water heaters we want put in to begin with, instead of having to put them in ourselves. Also, he’s a local guy, a friend from church…AND, he can do it all…get all of the permits, get the driveway done, the clearing done, etc. So, instead of one of us having to take on all of the work of finding the different contractors we need part-time, we’ll have it all wrapped up in one nice package.
We met with him tonight and he had a bunch of questions…including stuff that we didn’t have the answers to at this point. He’s also ready to come out and look at the property and to show us another property he’s working on that has a sealed crawl-space, so we can get an idea of what that looks like and what is involved with that (energy savings, among other things). Hopefully he can get us a new quote in the next few days so we’ll know what things are really going to cost and where we need to go from here.