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Due to rocky soils or high water tables, not all homes can have a basement, and often an interior room or closet may not provide enough protection. Some cities are even amending their building codes to have either a reinforced storm shelter or safe room installed in a home. A storm shelter is a structure…

What Is a Blower Door Test? A blower door test uses a powerful, calibrated fan mounted in an exterior doorway. When the fan runs, it either pressurizes or depressurizes the house, creating a measurable pressure difference between the indoors and the outdoors. Air is then drawn through every gap, crack, and penetration in the building…

Something that we need to clear up from the start is that a modern modular home should not be confused with a traditional manufactured home in terms of construction or its ability to be safe in a storm. Living in a modular home should give you peace of mind rather than have you feeling concerned….

There is a good deal of confusion surrounding the terms’ modular home’, ‘pre-built home’, ‘pre-fab home’, ‘manufactured home’, and ‘mobile home’. While all have a few similar characteristics, not only with each other, but also with the traditional ‘stick-built home’, a modular home is quite different from the rest in some very significant ways. When…

Pratt Homes, in Tyler, Texas, knows that part of designing and owning a modular home is home security. Feeling secure in your home is one of the most important details to plan for.   Whether you’re asleep, awake, or out of town, you need to know that you, your family, and your property are safe. Modular homes…

When building your dream modular home, hiring an experienced and trusted modular home builder is your first step. But wait! Before even speaking with your modular home builder, do a bit of research on your own. Make yourself familiar with aspects of the construction process so that when you do sit down and ask questions…