Custom Modular Home Blog: April 2011

Future Home Technology builds custom homes in a state of the art in-door construction facility where your new home is built using high quality modular construction techniques and applications that can not be duplicated in the field.

For more information about your new custom modular dream home, please visit out website at www.futurehometechnology.com view our current construction facility.

What a home owner purchases from Future Home Technology:

An experience manufacturer; premier builder of custom homes with a 24 year history and 6,000 successful completion of single and multi-family homes

High quality building and product specifications in our homes; please visit our product and specifications (standards) on our website.

In house construction facility with experienced craftsmen and engineers; and quality review by our in-house foreman and outside parties

Energy compliant homes

Homes that are built using green products

Homes that are built in-doors under a controlled environment; with construction techniques that are unique to our high quality building of customized modular homes that meet the personal requirements of the home owner.

Future Home Technology leading manufacturer of custom modular homes in the Northeast with building concentration in New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Pennsylvania, PA, Connecticut, CT, Massachusetts, MA, Rhode Island, RI, Vermont, VT and New Hampshire, NH

Monday, April 18, 2011

Future Home Technology custom design and enginerring

Future Home Technology custom design and engineering; just visit our website at http://www.futurehometechnology.com/ and view over 350 designs of single and multifamily homes from ranches and bi levels, capes and chalets, colonials, multi-family, high end architectual designs from Doug Cutler; etc or visit us and tell us what your home requirements are.

Future Home Technology will work with you, your builder on site, your architect, so we may design, engineer and build your dream home using our high quality modular construction and excellent building and product specifications to meet your personal requirements.

Future Home Technology is the leading manufacturer of custom modular homes in the Northeast; our building concentration is New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Pennsylvania, PA, Connecticut, CT, Massachusetts, MA, Vermont, VT, Rhode Island RI, and New Hampshire, NH

Your dream home built by Future Home Technology using custom modular construction

Planning on building a new home; then please feel free to contact Future Home Technology at 845-856-9033 or visit our website at www.futurehometechnology.com

Future Home Technology is the premier builder of custom design and custom built new homes that uses high quality modular construction. To date, we have built over 6,000 single and multi-family homes and you can be assured that your dream home is customized to your personal requirements and also meets your budgetary requirements.

Please view our high quality building and product specifications on our website and link to the name recognized suppliers websites that can provide more information about Anderson windows and sliders, or Merillat cabinetry.

Future Home Technology custom modular homes are designed, engineered and built at the highest quality of building and product specifications and we trust our building history and experiences will earn your trust and ultimately you can be the next home owner who has purchased our home.

We are the premier builder of custom modular homes in the Northeast with building concentration in New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Connecticut, CT, Pennsylvania, PA, Massachusetts, MA, Rhode Island, RI, Vermont, VT and New Hampshire, NH.

Future Home Technology builds many different types of homes using our high quality modular construction

Future Home Technology is the leading builder of custom modular homes in the Northeast. We build only new homes using our high quality modular construction and our brand name products. Homes we build are as follows:

Your dream home; large or small; customized design to meet your personal needs.

Colonials homes; high quality with many different types of designs and building specs such as 9' ceilings, doormers, different types of roof pitches, and hip roofs, archways, personalized trim packages, tray ceilings, vaults, electrical wiring to meet high technology users; radiant heat, energy compliant, green products; and many other types of options.

Capes and chalets; with high quality modular design and construction; vaults, 12/12 roof peaks with 9/12 roofs adjoining; lofts, archways, custom stairways and banisters; and many other building options.

Ranches and bilevels: we have built thousands of these homes in our 20 plus year history; with unique design, building and product specifications. 9' ceilings, vaults, energy compliant d green products; and many other product customization.

Multi-family homes; large projects; or smaller projects that consist of a simple duplex, triplex, quad, condominums, town houses, affordable housing; over 55 homes.

Disability homes or group homes for severly disabled adults or children

Light commercial projects

Hotels up to three stories

For more information about Future Home Technology custom modular home manufacturing, please visit our web site at http://www.futurehometechnology.com/ Future Home Technology is the premiur builder of modular homes in the Northeast with our concentration of building in New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Connecticut, CT, Pennsylvannia, PA, Massachusettes MA, Rhode Island, RI, Vermont, VT and New Hampshire, NH

Friday, April 8, 2011

Future Home Technology; custom home building

For over 20 years, Future Home Technology has been building custom homes using our high quality modular construction; to date 6,000 new homes.

For more information about our high quality modular construction and building your dream home, please view our website at www.futurehometechnology.com

Future Home Technology premier builder of new homes using modular construction in New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Pennsylvania, PA, Connecticut, CT, Vermont, VT, Massachusetts, MA, Rhode Island RI and New Hampshire NH

Future Home Technology - Going Green!

Future Home Technology, Inc. (FHT) is
Energy Star Compliant and going Green.

Energy Star; helpful memory joggers as it relates to buying FHT modular homes:

R-21 insulation in the walls; R-38 insulation in the ceilings; standards in FHT building specifications for high end energy savings relating to heating and cooling.

Bath fan with auto timer; 100 CFM Fan/Light combination for constant air flow. Standard with our building specifications.

Energy star lighting fixtures can be obtained as an option; Fixtures with special energy efficient bulbs (pin type).

FHT caulking at plates and panel intersections for air leakage makes the home energy star air-tight. Currently, FHT caulks around receptacles, switches, windows, doors, and light fixture boxes.

Ultimately, our modular homes are energy star compliant providing the builder adheres to local energy star requirements at the job site. Also, when ordering a home that is expected to obtain federal and state energy credits, energy compliance must be indicated to FHT upfront so your inspector can review our energy building processes in our plant.

Using FHT Green products and Leed certification:

FHT use of R-21 and R-38 insulation in our walls and ceilings are formaldehyde free Green products.

FHT use of Andersen windows and sliding glass doors are Green products.

FHT uses of Merillat kitchen and bathroom cabinetry are Green products.

FHT use of Shaw carpets are Green products.

FHT is currently reviewing changing our paint to a Green product with Low VOC.

Certain wood components can be purchased as options that are Green products such as Fingerjoint or MDF mouldings. In addition, FHT offers “FSC” lumber for Green use.

We are attaching a New York Times article which featured our home (picture) that was built where our builder obtained a Platinum Leeds rating. (See New York Times September 13, 2009 Designed, Delivered and Sealed; this was our home featured in the article. Needless to say, going very Green is quite expensive as it relates to the purchase of certain wood products. That said, FHT is committed to using Green products that meet your customer requirements. For more information about Energy Star and using Green Products, please contact us.

FUTURE HOME TECHNOLOGY QUALITY

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality assurance at Future Home Technology involves everyone.
All employees from production to management are empowered to make suggestions and decisions for improving our distinction of quality and raising our awareness levels.
Future Home Technology's Quality Assurance Department inspects structural code requirements as well as aesthetic detail. "Treat each home we build as if it were our own."
Beginning with the concept stages of development, FHT's Sales and Engineering Departments design your home based on specific code requirements for the state of destination. Working closely with the builder, the process is outlined in accordance with FHT's approved design systems. A "Third Party" inspection agency retained by FHT reviews the design plans as well as the actual modules while in production for code conformance. FHT's QA personnel also inspect all phases of construction including testing of raw materials used in the construction of your home. Any material not conforming to our strict guidelines is removed from production and tagged as unusable. Unlike site built homes that are subject to inclement weather conditions and seasonal changes all construction is done indoors at FHT.

FHT's Production Supervisors and Group Leaders are responsible for a final inspection of work completed, and components installed by their respective departments. These inspections are documented as approved and then reviewed by QA inspectors who must concur before the next stage of the construction process begins.
All homes are cleaned and a final aesthetic inspection is completed before leaving the factory to ensure a defect-free home will be delivered to the builder. At this point, the QA personnel review the inspection documents and complete a final review to assure any discrepancies noted have been rectified.
Upon conclusion of all work, approval seals assigned by the third party agency as well as the code enforcement divisions of the state of destination are affixed to the homes. These seals provide local code enforcement officials, as well as the builder and homeowner with assurance that a home built by FHT meets or exceeds prevailing code requirements.

Custom Modular Homes

Custom Modular Homes built using Future Home Technology (FHT) Modular Construction

New Custom Modular Homes built to meet your design. Our desire is to build your home and meet budgetary requirements using our FHT quality modular construction and brand name products.
Custom Modular Homes in New York NY, New Jersey NJ, Pennsylvania PA, Connecticut CT, Vermont VT, Rhode Island RI, New Hampshire NH, Massachusettes MA.

Since 1986, we have been reinventing the future of home building using our custom modular home construction techniques in our state of the art construction facility. We are proud of the over 6,000 families who are enjoying their homes built by our company.
Each home that we construct is custom made to your design and building specifications.
We use only the finest brand name materials from top of the line building suppliers and construct your custom modular home in an environmentally controlled construction facility using our high end design, engineering and modular construction techniques.
We built homes that are energy compliant and use many green materials.
Please review our portfolio of custom modular home designs and elevations. They provide you with 400 different variations of our custom modular homes inclusive of Colonials, Capes and Chalets, Ranch, Bi-levels and multi family style homes. Remember, all our designs will be readily customized to meet your specific home needs or we can start from almost any type of picture or drawing so you will ultimately live in your dream home.
We also invite you to Contact Us our desire is to build your new home. Obviously, this is why our Company is excited to be recognized as the premier builder of new custom modular homes using our high quality custom modular home construction.

Design and Engineering of Your Custom Modular Home

Future Home Technology, Inc (FHT) will design your custom modular home specific to your new home requirements. We turn around your home design within 3 business days once you have met with us.
Your home plans will consist initially of detailed floor plans and home elevations and we will work with you (revisions) until your dream home design is completed. Once the final engineering is approved, our plans are then stamp by a third party that provides an independent review of the design, structural calculations and state codes that have already been incorporated in your home plans.
The stamp plans have many different types of design and engineering information such as detailed floor layouts, electric, heat calculations, structural and other required information for you to pull permits and ultimately receive final certificate of occupancy.
Since FHT has designed and built over 6,000 custom modular homes, we are extremely confident in our design capabilities. Our engineers have been involved in thousands of homes built by our Company. For complex homes, FHT engineers will work with your architect to achieve the required design of your dream home.
Our web site provides hundreds of engineering designs for different types of custom modular homes; that said these designs are only ideas that you may incorporate in your new home or we can start with your fresh home design ideas and begin your engineering process.
FHT has design and built many different types of homes; all homes design and built by our company receive the same type of detail review necessary for successful completion of your home. Our engineering design including shop drawings enable us to build many different types of homes in our in-house facility using our modular or panelized construction. FHT is the leading builder of homes built in the Northeast; and we have engineered extraordinary complex homes with different types of roof systems, vaults, electrical for state of the art sound systems and alarms, high option special types of wood and molding applications, turrets, increased spans for room sizes, bump outs, garages and porches, drop in dormers; etc, while assuring our customers the building specifications and products offered (green) meet the current demand of new home owners. Also, FHT standard building specs are energy compliant and our homes are designed and insulated to substantially reduce heating costs.

FHT has engineering and system approvals to build in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire; and our third party engineering firm assures all our homes meets or exceeds codes in the respective states. FHT also can provide detail structural calculations for complex homes; we are approved to build in high wind areas and many of our homes are located along the coast of Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey.
FHT also understands that our high end building specifications and name products provide the home owner with a quality home that compliments the custom design of your home.
Please feel free to bring us your home ideas and together we will successfully design your dream home.

April 5, 2011

Future Home Technology Builders:

Subject: Customer communications about our standard building and product specifications; building energy efficient homes and using sustainable energy products (green).

Thank you for your ongoing commitment to FHT high quality custom modular homes. We are attaching our current building and product specifications that you may wish to print out and use as a guide for selling our high quality homes. Needless to say, it is very important to quickly distinguish our customization, high quality building and name brand product specifications when selling our homes. This information is on our website at www.futurehometechnology.com . Our links page provides our supplier websites where additional information can be assessed by you/your prospective customers who will be living in our homes.

Certain FHT sales, marketing and construction tidbits for your review:

Merillat cabinetry: It is a brand name that is well recognized and they offer many different types of options and it is also a green product. Our competitors may offer Aristocraft or Kitchen Kompact that are not in the same league as Merillat or some manufacturers believe their in-house cabinet organization is a product that homeowners desire?

American Standard: high quality, brand name toilets that will last a long time; compared to less expensive toilets offered by many of our competitors.

Andersen windows; high quality, brand name with substantial options and it is a green product; or Ply-gem windows where certain upgrades such as their aluminum clad window with many different colors (red, green; etc) provides extraordinary value and very nice custom home appeal.

Owens Corning 30 year architectural shingles (name product) and FHT always uses their high end roof caps compared to 3 tab shingles that must be cut.

Energy compliant homes - New home owners should be able to reduce their future air and heating bills almost in half compared to lower energy standards offered by our competitors; or a potential home owner purchasing an older home where energy bills will be much higher. Our energy compliant home information is as follows: R38 in roof (higher R values with electric heat or upstate codes) and R21 in our walls, caulking at our receptacles or air penetration, energy star fan, and upgraded lighting fixtures that meet energy star requirements.

Building green: Merillat, Andersen, formaldehyde free insulation, Shaw carpeting; all green products.

FHT construction using only 16” O.C. in floors, outside walls, and roofs and 5/8” CDX plywood sheathing on roofs; also ice and water shield. We do not build 24” O.C. and cheapen up our high quality building specifications compared to many of our competitors.

FHT unique construction technique of using sheetrock backing behind the walls and foam seal along the wall studs for additional support and major reduction of stress cracks. This is not done by our competitors.

Sheetrock, taping and painting that is exceptional; also our high quality finish work and FHT uses trim packages that are solid wood; many of our competitors use a lower grade trim package.

Technical building skills that create an FHT superior customized home from our salesmen, engineering, and craftsmen where their employment tenure with us averages over 15 years.

When you buy an FHT custom modular home, you are purchasing high quality and the home owner is living in their dream home! Needless to say, when someone is buying a lower quality home, they most likely are purchasing a problem that can become extremely difficult and costly for them to own in future years.

FLOORS:

2 x10 Floor Joists – 16” O.C.

¾” T&G OSB Flooring (glued & nailed)

Solid Block Deck Bridging

Double Perimeter Band

LVL Band at Mate Wall (each box)

WALLS:

2 x 6 Exterior Walls – 16” O.C.

R21 Insulation – Exterior Walls-formaldehyde free

(green) product

7/16” OSB Sheathing (Ext. & Mate Wall)

2 x 4 Interior Walls – 16” O.C.

½” Drywall – Taped, bedded & Primer Coat

Painted

Exterior House Wrap

Curtain Blocking at All Windows

ROOF & CEILING:

5/12 Roof Pitch – Trusses 16” O.C.

Cape Roof Pitch – 12/12 16” O.C.

8’ Ceiling Height

R38 Insulation – Batt Type-formaldehyde free

(green) product

5/8” CDX Plywood Sheathing

“Shingle Over” Ridge Vent

Owens Corning 30 Year Architectural Shingles

10” Front & Rear Overhangs

Gable End Overhangs (not on Cape models)

½” Drywall Ceilings – 16” O.C. – Taped, Bedded

& Primer Coat Painted

Ice & Water Shield

EXTERIOR:

Andersen Series 200 Narroline Low E Windows

With Screens (green product)

CertainTeed Double 4 Bevel or Dutchlap Vinyl Siding

Vented Soffit & Aluminum Fascia

Fiberglass Entry Door with Glass

Schlage Entry Lock – Brass or Satin Nickel

Exterior Light at Each Door

Door Chime at Front Door

Andersen Permashield Vinyl Clad Sliding Glass

Door (per print) (green product)

INTERIOR:

Shaw Cut Pile Carpet (green product)

& FHA-approved ½” Pad in

Livingroom, Dining Room, Hall & Bedrooms

Vinyl Floor Covering in Kitchen & Baths with

Underlayment

Six-Panel Colonial Hollow-Core Passage and

Bi-fold Doors Painted White.

Schlage Hardware – Brass or Satin Nickel

Prefinished White Colonial 3-1/4” Baseboard &

Solid wood interior 2-1/2” Casing.

Trim & Finish Drywall Inside All Closets

KITCHEN:

Merillat Raised Panel Oak Cabinets (green product)

Laminate Countertops with Wood Edge

8” Double Bowl Stainless Steel Sink

Delta Single Lever Faucet w/ Spray

Range Hood – vented / non-vented

24” Kitchen Soffits or Galley or Crown

BATHROOM:

Merillat Raised Panel Oak Cabinets (green product)

Cultured Marble Vanity Tops

Delta Single Lever Faucet – Chrome

Side Mounted Medicine Cabinet

Full Mirror w/ Vanity Light

Fiberglass One-Piece Tub/Shower Unit

American Standard Elongated 1.6gl Water Closet

Bath Fan / Light Combination

Decorator Accessories

1 energy star fan / light combo per home

PLUMBING:

All Plumbing Stubbed Through Floor for

On-site Connection

PEX Fresh Water Supply Line

PVC Drain, Waste & Vent

Shut-Offs at All Sinks & Water Closets

Delta Anti-Scald Devices on Showers and/or

Tub/Showers

ELECTRIC:

200 Amp Full-Size Entrance Panel Box

Circuit & Receptacle for Electric Range

AC/DC Smoke Detectors (as required)

Carbon Monoxide Detector (1 per floor)

Exterior Weatherproof G.F.I. Receptacle

Seagull Lighting Fixture Package – Brass or

Satin Nickel

HEAT:

Choice of Hot Water Baseboard (stubbed

Through floor) or Electric Baseboard Heat with

Individual Wall-Mounted Thermostats

All FHT Homes Are Built Energy Star Compliant.

Refer to model information for specific applications. These specifications do not include all available options or all available color choices. FHT reserves the right to change or alter these specifications without prior notice.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Future Home Technology; custom new homes built using high quality modular construction

Future Home Technology is the premier builder of custom modular homes; our 6,000 home owners will agree they have purchased a quality home, energy efficient, green home, and most important have lasting construction and marketing values; a tremendous asset!

There are no challenges in buying our quality custom modular homes; we build your dream home to your building and product specifications; custom design to meet your living requirements.

For more information about Future Home Technology, please visit our website at www.futurehometechnology.com

Future Home Technology; custom home building using modular construction

Future Home Technology is the leading manufacturer (builder) of custom home using modular construction. And we use the highest building and product specifications in our homes; see our website at www.futurehometechnology.com for detail information; and our links page can bring to world wide suppliers such as Merillat, American Standard, Delta, Shaw, Anderson, Owens Corning; etc.

We you purchase your custom modular home, it is designed to meet your personal requirements and lifestyle. We sell the highest quality custom modular homes engineered and built to meet your dream home!

And you will be elated with the energy savings of Future Home Technology energy compliant homes that use many green products.

With 20 plus years of building over 6,000 homes, you may be assured of your dream home of the fine quality custom modular construction where our homes are delivered in New York, NY, New Jersey, NJ, Connecticut, CT, Pennsylvania, PA, Massachusetts, MA, Vermont, VT, Rhode Island, RI and New Hampshire, NH