Marmol Radziner Prefab

We’ve been busy bees here at MRP. Last week we installed our sixth prefab home in a stunning vineyard location in Napa Valley. Check out a few of the install images here. Great job Prefab Team!

Check out KTLA’s follow up interview with Leo Marmol at the completed Palms House in Venice. You’ll recall they were at the installation of the home on June 3rd and 4th, it only took 2 days to install the entire house!They were back to see the home in its finished state, it took about 8 weeks to complete the finishing touches and now its ready to live in.

Click below to go to the KTLA web article. Be sure to view the video at the bottom of their webpage, you won’t want to miss it!

To facilitate the transition between indoor and outdoor spaces, the Palms House has a few exterior stair landings (or palettes) that stick out beyond the building envelope of the modules. Visually, these pads continue the same materials inside and out so that the entire ground level of the home has poured concrete floors. We fabricated these pads in our factory, and they were  forklifted into place during the installation a few weeks ago.

Click below to view some amazing footage of the Palms House installation, and learn about the process from Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner.

There’s been so much going on recently, including some great video coverage this month we can share with you. San Diego Fox 6 highlighted the Rincon 5 and the very easy process of buying one of our green prefab homes on their show, San Diego Living. Take a look!

Tomorrow, Marmol Radziner Prefab will be featured on Renovation Nation, starring Steve Thomas .  Renovation Nation now calls the Planet Green channel home and provides viewers with information on green building. Our episode highlights the green features of prefab building and follows the Palms House as it traveled through our factory. The completed Palms House was installed in Venice, CA on June 3rd and 4th. 

Renovation Nation
July 24th
6 PM EST (for PST check your local listings) 
Planet Green Channel

By 10:30 am on Wednesday, all 13 mods that make up the Palms House were installed. The 2800 square foot house includes 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a living room/dining room, kitchen (with operable skylight), office and plenty of outdoor living space.

Site preparations are plowing along for the Palms House in advance of the installation in the beginning of June. After the hand demolition, where reusable materials and appliances were removed from the old house, the bulldozer cleared out the remaining structure and materials. Then came the rough grading and trenching, and now we’re doing the installation of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems that will hook up to the house modules at predetermined locations. Soon we’ll start pouring the structural concrete footings and laying the CMU stem-wall foundation. Then after that… delivery day!

With forecasts of increasingly ferocious fire seasons in our future, we wanted to talk about some of the materials and designs we use to mitigate the risk of building in fire-prone areas.

Our factory has started production on the Malibu House, aka California House 5, a home that will be installed in a High Fire Hazard Zone 4 area. The picture below shows the installation of DensGlass Gold Gypsum Sheathing, a fire resistant sheathing used in one hour fire assemblies. This material is an example of how we try to reduce the likelihood of embers igniting the structure. Similarly, we use metal siding, structural steel frames, and concrete floors as opposed to wood or other more flammable materials. Our structures do not include eaves, a design that minimizes the risk of embers entering the interior of the home.

We recently posted about Heath Ceramic’s new tapestry tile collection, so we figured an update on Heath tiles at the Palms House was due. Our factory is nearly done installing the cheery “Stone Gold” matte tiles in the kids bathroom.

The bathroom runs across two modules (one of which you can see below), so the factory installed the tiles in each module separately and then will just infill the “seam” between the modules once the house is installed on site.