Yes, Marmol Radziner Prefab homes can be delivered to any state. They are preapproved for use in the state of California. If you live outside the state of California, we will get our homes approved in your state. We are getting approvals in other states as we move forward with each client and have built homes in Nevada and Utah in addition to California.
We would like to determine if your site can accommodate both the house and its delivery. Each site has unique conditions and topography, i.e. flat, slightly sloped, steep hillside, irregular shaped, etc. We would also like to check with your local planning agency for any construction restrictions, as well as any general building requirements for your site. We can assist you with this process at a basic level at no charge. If the site is a bit more complicated, for a small fee, we can have our setting consultant visit the site to ensure a smooth delivery.
If we determine that it is feasible, the fee is credited towards the costs of the Purchase Order.
Yes, we will need to visit your site a number of times throughout the process. We will visit the site to determine whether the site can accommodate a prefab home. We will also meet at the site during the design phase. We will regularly visit your site throughout the site construction, craning, setting, and finishing process.
Yes, a hillside lot is workable with proper preparation and additional site construction. Ideally, your location is fairly flat for easy delivery and installation. Depending on the degree of slope, concrete retaining walls may be required to create a level pad for the house. Preferably, your site has a flat "staging area" to park the crane (roughly 50’), which will lift your modules from the delivery truck and set them on your foundations. There may be instances where your site is too steep to make it economically feasible to do a prefab home. If you have a hillside lot, we recommend you consult with us early in the process.
Yes, additions are possible and are most easily accomplished by building a separate prefab structure with a minimal connection point to the existing house through a hallway or a covered deck. Adding onto your existing Marmol Radziner Prefab is completely feasible and accomplished due to similar construction methods and materials. This process can become easier when we can anticipate the expansion and design accordingly.
Yes, Marmol Radziner Prefab homes can function efficiently in your climate. We will work with local building codes to make modifications to our prefab homes to function as an efficient and safe home for your climate.
A module is a standardized, three-dimensional component that is attached to other modules to compose a prefab house. Our largest modules are approximately 12 ft wide x 55 ft long x 13 ft high. The modules are designed to ship on specialized trailers. The sizes fall within the Transportation Department's standard shipping guidelines, so they do not need any special permits or pilot cars when transported on the road to your site.
We deliver your house to your site nearly move-in ready. The house is delivered with all of the finishes installed, including the wood flooring, tile, countertops, and paint. We install the windows and doors in the factory, along with the cabinets, plumbing fixtures, appliances, and lights. After the house is delivered and bolted together, there are a few remaining items that need to be taken care of. We handle these items for you on site.
Marmol Radziner Prefab homes are constructed in a factory. The goal of our prefab system is to create finished, volumetric modules that ship to your site virtually complete. Our homes are delivered to you with installed tiles, floors, countertops, appliances, windows, and doors.
We believe there are numerous benefits to finished volumetric modular construction. By maximizing factory production and minimizing the on-site work, we can have greater control over the quality, schedule, and cost of construction—no rain delays or misaligned details. Factory production minimizes construction waste through precise cutting and the ability to reuse and recycle excess materials. With a kit-of-parts or panelized home, you will still need to hire a contractor. As such, you will confront many of the same issues scheduling subcontractors and dealing with delays in the schedule as you would with a standard site built home.
Yes, Marmol Radziner Prefab’s modular system is very flexible, so we can design homes in nearly any size or configuration. We take great care to work with your site to maximize the views and possibilities for indoor/outdoor living. We design to your specific needs, from a small workout room to a special home theater system.
When we design a customized prefab we would enter into a design contract and work with you to develop a custom prefabricated home exactly suited to your needs and site conditions. Custom designing your prefab home will add time to the schedule because we will enter into a more traditional architect to client relationship in order to meet with you to design your home.
Please visit the CUSTOM PREFAB HOMES section to see examples of our custom projects.
Yes, many of our custom homes are two stories, and we can design a two story custom prefab home for you. We also offer four different two story home options in our Skyline Series.
Yes, we currently offer the Desert House floor plan as a custom configuration.
Yes, we build the covered deck in our factory with the same steel frame modules we use for the home. The deck is delivered to the site complete and ready for indoor/outdoor living.
The interior ceilings are approximately 9 feet high. If you are in a temperate climate and ductwork is not required, this can be increased to 10’ to allow for a greater floor to ceiling height. If this does not accommodate your needs, we are able to create a ‘hat’ module that will be used to extend the floor to ceiling height to around 15’. In our two--story custom configurations, we are able to do double height mezzanine spaces.
If you are doing a custom prefab home, there are virtually the same options as if you were to do a standard site built home. You can customize by choosing interior and exterior finishes, as well as appliances and fixtures. They all have associated costs that we will discuss with you.
Yes, we do offer concrete floors poured in our factory. We also offer a concrete tile that has a similar look and feel to heavier concrete. The concrete tiles come in oversized panels, which minimizes the grout lines and has a monolithic look, very similar to concrete without the added difficulties.
No, we do not offer the option to purchase the homes without the cabinetry installed in our factory. We feel the cabinets are integral to both the design and fabrication process. Electrical fixtures, plumbing fixtures, and appliances all need to be coordinated with the cabinetry. We want to ship you a home that is complete, so we require that we complete this work in our factory.
Appliances have specific requirements in that they are all different sizes and have different gas, plumbing, and electrical requirements. We have designed our cabinetry around the requirements of the appliances we offer. We do allow you to choose appliances that are different than the ones that we have specified, but we will still want to purchase and install them.
Material prices are determined by market conditions that we do not control, therefore, the pricing may change over time. Generally speaking, our custom homes that we have built have cost between $250 and $350 per square foot out of the factory, with total hard cost construction budgets of between and $500 and $700 per square foot (including the prefab modules, delivery, installation, and site costs). Our standard product designs, such as Skyline, will be $200-300 per square foot out of the factory with total construction budgets of $350 to $450 per square foot. We have some sample budgets in our DOWNLOADS section for more specific cost estimates.
We build finished, volumetric modules that ship on a specialized trailer pulled by a semi truck. Costs vary from city to city because shipping estimates are based on the specific truck route. On average, the shipping costs range between $6.00 to $8.00 per module for each mile between our factory and your site.
Marmol Radziner Prefab homes come with a one-year warranty on the work. All applicable statute of limitations will apply for your state. In addition, we provide all of the product warranties, including a 15-year warranty on the roofing material.
No, conventional construction loan financing from a bank or other mortgage lender is available. Marmol Radziner Prefab homes are not US Department of Housing and Urban Development homes or mobile homes. They do not have an attached chassis and once they are delivered to your site they are permanently attached to the foundation. The homes are considered "real property".
For the LA area, we have worked with the real estate broker Neville Graham, you can contact him at 310-420-6809 or on his website, http://www.westsideland.com. He understands our product and site requirements and is familiar with the Los Angeles area. If you are looking at a site outside the Los Angeles area, please call or email us, and we can provide you with some specifications of what your land realtor should be looking for. We can also recommend David Rosenfeld (310.450.4488 x 15) and Chris Barton (818.590.7470) as a lender/financer.
Modular prefab homes must be approved at the state level, while site related permits must be secured from your local jurisdiction. These include permits for your foundation, utility hook ups, and the installation of the prefab home on the site.
We have outlined the steps from beginning to completed house in the BUILDING A PREFAB HOME section of the website.
You can call or email us at any time. We can answer most questions by phone. If you feel you would like to meet with us in person at our offices, we can arrange for that as well. We will meet with you at your site if you have retained us to Establish Feasibility of Prefab on Your Site (Step 1 in BUILDING A PREFAB HOME).
We are architects, manufacturers, landscape designers, and general contractors. We can do everything from designing you a pool to building your foundations and, of course, delivering and finishing your home.
We estimate that within 6 to 8 months of signing your purchase order, we will deliver your home. After the house is completed in the factory, setting of the modules happens in 1 to 2 days. Once the house is secured to the foundation, there will be an additional 4 to 6 weeks of finish installation. Keep in mind that financing, securing local permits, and other external factors may affect timing.