| Does the idea of living in an Alaska modular home | | | | that of traditionally constructed homes, but the |
| strike you as just this side of insane? Are you | | | | number of people for their construction is much |
| picturing gale force winds, nights which last for | | | | smaller, and they can be completed in much less |
| months, and sheets of ice weighing down your | | | | time than traditional homes. Its simplified |
| modular roof to its breaking point? | | | | construction means that an Alaska modular home |
| If so, you can relax. You may not have known | | | | will cost considerably less than an equivalent |
| that in the oil company British Petroleum, which | | | | traditional home. |
| built the Alaska pipeline during the 1970s, uses | | | | Energy Efficiency |
| modular housing to house its construction | | | | One of your major concerns, if you are |
| employees on Alaska's North Slope. The terrain | | | | considering an Alaska modular home, will be its |
| and weather conditions on Alaska's North Slope | | | | energy efficiency. Because modular homes are |
| are among the harshest on Earth, with | | | | built in blocks which are designed to fit together |
| permafrost which never thaws. The average | | | | precisely, they are almost completely draft proof. |
| temperature on the North Slope is 9.7 degrees, | | | | But an Alaska modular home can be ordered with |
| and where the wind never stops blowing and | | | | additional insulation, and even manufactured to |
| fifty-mile an hour gusts, producing wind chills of | | | | meet Energy Star standards. In addition, your |
| fifty below, are monthly occurrences. | | | | Alaska modular homes will be constructed to |
| If an Alaska modular home can handle the North | | | | meet the building codes in the municipalities where |
| Coast, they can handle almost any other part of | | | | it is built. |
| Alaska as long as it does not thaw in the spring | | | | One factor you'll have to work into your Alaska |
| and float out to sea. An Alaska modular home, in | | | | modular home plans is the delivery cost you'll |
| fact, may be the only option for parts of the | | | | have to pay. Depending on which part of Alaska |
| state to remote to be accessible for construction | | | | you want to call home, your Alaska modular |
| crew and the delivery of traditional home building | | | | home may have to come a long way, and the |
| materials. | | | | shipping charges can add a significant percentage |
| It's Not A Mobile Home | | | | to its cost. |
| Many people have lumped modular homes into the | | | | Alaska has the scenery, the clear clean air, and |
| same category as mobile homes, and they could | | | | the peace and quiet that can make you wonder |
| not be more different. Your Alaska modular home | | | | why you ever wanted to live anywhere else. And |
| will be constructed on a permanent foundation | | | | your Alaska modular home, against a setting like |
| and cannot be moved. | | | | that, can guarantee that you won't! |
| When completed their appearance is identical to | | | | |