Welcome to the Excel Homes Blog!

July 15th, 2008 by Steve Scharnhorst
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It seems like everyone is blogging these days (either reading them or writing them), so it makes perfect sense as Excel Homes continues to grow that we’d start our own blog – Modular Musings. Ever since I first joined Excel Homes as president in 2007, I’ve thought a blog would be a useful communications tool for Excel Homes and I’m happy to finally see it up and running.

We plan to cover a lot of stuff here on the Excel is blog, from the modular home building process to photos and insights into interesting modular home projects. We’ll even talk about things that aren’t directly related to modular homes, like landscaping features and mortgage options.

And even though this blog is housed on the Excel website and written by members of the Excel team, it’s important to clarify that this is not a blog all about Excel Homes. Most of the entries will be about the modular home industry as a whole, but we will introduce you to the Excel  team through regular “Featured Employee” entries and give you periodic updates and news about Excel Homes and our products. We’ll also give you an inside look at the modular home building process through our regular “Plant Manager’s Journal” entries.

While much of what you will read here on the Excel blog is based on fact, we’ll also be offering plenty of opinions about those facts. If you ever disagree with what we have to say (or even if you agree), feel free to leave a comment or two. The interaction between our readers and the Excel is what we’re looking forward to most with this blog.

Feel free to check back often because we’ll be updating Modular Musings two to three times each week. You can sign up to have new entries sent directly to your e-mail in-box by entering your information in the subscription box on the right side of this page. Whether you’re a home builder or a prospective home owner, we hope you enjoy our new web venture as much as we’ll enjoy writing it!

Steve Scharnhorst
President, Excel Homes

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  1. Jim Gherardi, Sound Builders said on July 27th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Steve, You definately need to talk about Green Building and how much modular building has been built in this method for years!! Especially talk about how modular has been way ahead of the curve for years in Green Building and Energy Star both!!
    Jim

  2. Excel Team said on July 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    Great point, Jim. We plan to make green building a recurring theme here on Modular Musings because, like you said, it’s one of the biggest (and most overlooked) benefits of modular construction.

    If anyone else has any suggestions for what we can talk about here on the blog, please feel free to let us know with a comment or e-mail. The way I see it, Modular Musings is a blog not just for Excel Homes and AvisAmerica, but for all of our builder partners as well.

  3. Jim Leach said on September 29th, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Jim is correct regarding green building practices. We are currently pricing an affordable housing development , the requirements are many and green building practices a must. Were using a 900 sq ft to 1100 footprint, on an Avis modified ranch style home, small front poch/roof, composite siding, and we increased the standard r-19 wall insulation to the R-21 that Avis offers, then 3/4 blue board @r-3.75 so the end result when figuring all wall ingredents will be an R-26.44. The attic we are deleting the R-38 and blowing in an r-55 or so on site, It’s darn affordable too! We are making other changes also, that we intend on continuing to the general public.
    Thanks.jim

  4. Richard North said on March 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    According to the Census Bureau figures in 2007, the number of new one-family houses completed for site-build were 1166,000 compared to 33,000 modular houses, which is about 3% of all homes completed. So why is this? Is it purely to do with the stigma associated with modular homes, and that they are thought of as an inferior construction method? And/or Is it because home buyers are unaware and un-educated of modular homes and their cost, speed and quality advantages over it’s rival site built homes? Or is it more to do with the permit application approval, and that the modular homes share of sf permits are very low? I am just confused, as we know that modular construction provides all these advantages over site-build.

  5. peter said on December 6th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    Hello! Nice site and good articles.

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