The Lady Contractor operates a full service general contracting firm, including design, residential new construction (new home building, room additions, second storey additions), remodeling, and commercial fit-outs.
We are also an authorized builder for Excel Homes, the nation’s third largest modular home manufacturer. The Lady Contractor is an enthusiastic proponent of modular or “systems built” housing because of the savings we can offer in terms of cost and time, and the options that are easily available and affordable for green construction (durable, sustainable, recyclable materials, improved indoor air quality, energy efficiency, lowered carbon footprint).
THIS is 21st century systems built modular home construction, and it is superb:
As you can see, modular homes are NOT manufactured homes or “trailers.” Modular homes are real houses built to meet, and frankly, often exceed, the same standards and codes as site-built construction. You have real floor joists, insulation and drywall. Your modular home has to pass all the same city inspections as if I were building it on site. You cannot tell the difference between an off-site built (modular) home and a site-built home, because they are the same thing, just built in two difference places!
Excel modular homes are comprised of three-dimensional sections (modules) that are assembled in climate-controlled factories and then transported to the home site, where the final finishing occurs. This factory construction process allows for a controlled environment with close supervision, resulting in a consistently higher quality home and faster build.
Imagine, while The Lady Contractor is clearing your land and building your foundation, the rest of your home is being built at the same time! You can’t do that with standard on-site construction!
A fellow contractor used this analogy, and I love it: When you buy a new car, you want it built in a factory, right? You wouldn’t want a pile of parts delivered to your driveway and then put together outside! So, why are we still building our homes outside, with rain, heat, cold, snow, ice, and mud compromising the construction materials and creating tons of work delays? We should be building our homes the way we build our cars – in highly controlled factory conditions with a strict quality assurance program and dozens of inspections (in addition to the mere handful of inspections required by the city) throughout the construction process.
Excel is equipped with 5 million square feet of capacity. This enables The Lady Contractor to offer you our home building services year-round, protecting materials from the harmful effects and delays of outside weather.
When you build an Excel Home with The Lady Contractor, you can be confident the product you are getting is built with quality, craftsmanship and durability. For more info, call us at 757-407-2653 or e-mail Alexandra@theladycontractor.com.
P.S. The “Boys Hope/Girls Hope” home in Baltimore, Maryland is an Excel modular home specially designed and built for Extreme Makeover. Check out the slide show here!
The biggest problem we face in this industry and getting people to understand a modular home is not a mobile home. They are not built with the same materials and specifications. Too many people think a stick built home in the only way to have a forever home, not realizing that modular homes are just as strong, if not stronger, than traditional stick built homes!