Sparkling Homes of New England LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Independent Builder of Award Winning Epoch Modular Homes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Building, A Better Way"sm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
                   

Duxbury MA

                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

781-934-7705

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advantages of Sparkling Homes of New England's Epoch Modular Homes

  
     
 

COST ADVANTAGES

Cost advantages begin accruing to the homeowner from the beginning.  Efficiencies gained at the factory are passed on the customer.  Within the Epoch factory, savings and efficiencies are gained in the following ways

More efficient use of resources

Factory construction enables Epoch to plan raw materials to take advantage of Just in Time inventory methodologies that eliminate the carrying costs associated with the storage of vast amounts of raw materials.

High Volume Purchases

Agreements with suppliers based on bulk purchases enable Epoch to garner significant discounts for raw materials.

State of the Art design capability

The use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) enables your home to be computer designed and engineered like the finest automobiles or fighter jets.  This design capability allows for significantly better materials planning and a substantial reduction in waste.

Comfortable and Stable workforce

A well trained, experienced, comfortable and stable workforce enables Epoch to keep the manufacturing line moving constantly.  This keeps the factory on schedule and ensures that the overhead costs are utilized in the most efficient manner.  Comfortable employees focus on the work at hand as opposed to how to stay dry, warm or cool.

Controlled Environment

Factory construction eliminates the costs associated with weather related construction delays.

Focus on Safety

Epoch’s focus on safety and OSHA compliance ensures the plant experiences fewer accidents, thus incurring lower insurance premiums.

Shorter construction cycle

A shorter construction cycle (typically half that of Stick built) turns into significant savings in interest payments for construction loans.

REPEATABLE PROCESSES

EPOCH Homes has been manufacturing homes for 20 years.  In that time, processes have been developed to the point where the results are repeatable, consistent, and of the highest quality.  This provides EPOCH with the unique advantage of being able to design and engineer quality into the process.  Quality Assurance professionals ensure quality throughout the process as opposed to trying to inspect quality into the finished product.  Repeatable processes also ensure that if a quality defect is detected at any point in the process it is corrected immediately as opposed to expensive re-work at your home construction site.

CONSISTENT MATERIAL QUALITY

The materials used by EPOCH Homes in the manufacture of your home are of the highest quality from the industry’s top manufacturers such as American Standard, Pella, Andersen, and Plumb Creek, as well as dimensional lumber from the nations top mills. The lumber is dried to a moisture content of between fifteen and   twenty percent.  Experience has shown that this moisture content produces a more stable raw material, less warpage and fewer nail or screw pulls.

Epoch manufactures your home in a controlled environment in a state of the art facility.  Contrast this with the typical site or stick built home. The materials are exposed to the elements from the time they are delivered from the lumberyard, while they await use on the project and after the construction until the home is roofed.  This could be a period of several weeks.  This produces warped and damaged raw materials.       

REDUCTION IN TURNAROUND TIME

Typical construction financing must be in place before any contractor will break ground for your new home.   That means that you begin paying for your new home several months before you can move into it.  If your construction project takes six months you essentially have six months of mortgage payments ahead of you.  But typically that is not he only major expense you’ll be carrying.  Most customers are also carrying a mortgage or paying rent on their current residence.

In the EPOCH modular scenario, your only substantial cash outlay before the home is delivered is the 10% down payment on the modules.  Your home is completed in a matter of weeks after delivery, not months as in a site or stick built home.

The typical turnaround time for an Epoch Modular home from order to your occupancy permit is 2 ˝ to 3 months.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

All EPOCH Homes are EnergyStar compliant.  Typically EnergyStar homes are 1/3 more energy efficient than typical construction built under the 1993 National model energy code.

Energy efficiency is designed into every EPOCH home, featuring an EnergyStar compliant building envelope, high performance low e thermopane windows, and controlled air infiltration.  Epoch standard homes are manufactured with 2X6 studs. This 2X6 construction method allows for the installation of 6-inch R-19 insulation as compared to 3-inch R-13 insulation typically employed in the stick/site built home.  Additionally Epoch homes are built from the inside out.  This allows epoch to enhance the building energy envelope and ensure a leak proof vapor barrier by calking around all switch, receptacle and gang boxes from behind the sheetrock.  All seams, both interior and exterior are caulked to prevent air infiltration.  Lower energy bills go directly to a lower total cost of ownership.  

Sparkling Homes of New England recommends EnergyStar compliant heating /cooling and hot water systems as well as EnergyStar compliant appliances.  EPOCH Homes are less expensive to heat and cool.

CUSTOMIZATION

With over 120 standard floor plans and the ability to offer almost infinite modifications and combinations, Sparkling Homes of New England and Epoch Homes can offer virtually any design.   Standard designs include Colonials, Victorians, Capes, Ranches, Split-levels in one and two-story homes as well as Contemporaries and Multifamily designs.   We also have the ability to design your dream home from the ground up or convert your Architects design to a modular format. 

 

  
     
               
               
 

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