Custom Modular Home Blog: June 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

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

For more information about Future Home Technology custom design and modular building, please visit our website at www.futurehometechnology.com On our website there are over 350 designs and our high end building and product specifications.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Princeton, NJ Home

Hello FHT team,

The set went really well yesterday. Today the set crew completed strapping and attaching things and our GC removed temporary floors to open up the two-story spaces. The interior is looking very dramatic and you cat get a feeling of what the final result will be. I think it looks very nice, it is very exciting.

We are working on the movie of the set and will post to web and e-mail soon.

Thanks!
Marina

http://www.futurehometechnology.com/

Friday, June 17, 2011

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Design your Dream Home

Design &Engineering Your Custom Modular Home

Future Home Technology, Inc (FHT) will design your custom 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 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.

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Quality Assurance

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.

Future Home Technology, Inc. - People and Serivice

SERVICE AND OUR PEOPLE

All of us at FHT provide service excellence to our customers.
Our internal support structure is driven by the motto that “if we can not directly help the customer, we must always provide help and support to someone that is.”
Our team approach to any service issue, insures that together, we can offer the finest service excellence to our Builders. Our crafts build your home as if it was their own!
FHT’s production team is the best in the industry. On average, our crafts and management staff have decades of construction experience; and have been employed at our company for over ten years.
Our crafts have allowed us to assemble an efficient, knowledgeable, and skill team of specialists. We have encouraged our craftsmen and women to work with the skills they truly excel in.
All of us at FHT are devoted to enhancing the professional development of our employees since we understand our company’s quality relating to home building is all about our people.

About Future Home Technology, Inc.

ABOUT FUTURE HOME TECHNOLOGY

Future Home Technology's first home rolled off the line in August 1989. Since then over 6000+ quality homes have been manufactured at our Port Jervis, NY factory.
Our factory was the culmination of years of reasearch and design. It was built specifically to construct modular homes, not retro-fitted from some other use as other modular factories are. This means that our construction team has access to modern, state-of-the-art equipment to properly manufacture your home.
Our original sales, construction and management team came to Future Home Technology with years of expeirience in the modular industry. They brought with them the knowledge to run our factory properly and effeciently, permitting us to produce homes in a cost efficient manor. Their knowledge was passed on to the construction staff enabling our company to grow very quickly.
Many of our core team members have been with us from the very beginning creating a company history unparalleled in the industry. This knowledge and experience prevents "recreating the wheel" enabling our construction staff to work more quickly & efficiently.
Future Home Technology has become known as simply the best manufacturer in the industry. Our reputation has grown greatly since 1989 through the word of mouth by our builders and hundreds of satisfied homeowners. This reputation was earned through years of hard work and continues to grow with every home we produce.
We invite you to take a virtual tourof our factory. See our homes as they progress from the raw lumber stage to a completed home ready to ship to your site.
We also invite you to contact us. We will be happy to connect you with someone in our network of independent builders who will help you realize your dream home.

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Green Products

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.

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Energy Star Compliant

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

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Engineering

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.

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Construction Process

Construction Process

Future Home Technology, Inc (FHT) construction process begins with customized design and engineering of your dream home; inclusive of final plan approval and stamp plans by independent engineering firm. Since 1986, FHT has built more than 6,000 homes using our high building specifications and brand name products. FHT is the premier builder in the Northeast and all of our homes have been customized to meet customer demands.
Our 100,000 SF state of the art construction facility provide us with equipment, jigs, engineering, quality controls, purchasing, and material storage all located in house; with the constant monitoring of the construction process by our engineering and third party. Our factory was constructed specifically to build homes using our high quality modular construction techniques in a controlled environment implemented with state of the art building equipment and experienced craftsmen that have 15 year tenures with our Company and who have been responsible for successful completion of thousands of new homes.

FHT is a leader in modular construction of very unique types of homes from larger mansion type homes to smaller quaint ranches with amenities built in consistent with your engineering design. Oversize boxes, bump outs, different types of roof pitches including hip and shed roofs, extraordinary drop in dormers, 9' ceilings and trays, extra space in attics, longer spans for room size and basements, high end finishing such as crown and different types of arch ways, state of the art electrical plan layouts, warm board applications, mechanical and sprinkler applications so that on site work is limited, energy compliant and green materials used are just a few of the construction applications that will enhance your new home and provide high end value. Also see our high quality buildings specs and name products; that said our homes are competitively priced for you to own!
We invite you to take a virtual tour of our facility and see our homes as they progress to a completion and are delivered and set at your building site..

Future Home Technology, Inc. - Standard Specifications and Products

STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS & PRODUCTS
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
(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
:‐formaldehyde free
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
(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
:‐formaldehyde free
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
Livingroom, Dining Room, Hall & Bedrooms
Vinyl Floor Covering in Kitchen & Baths with
Underlayment
Six
Bi
Schlage Hardware – Brass or Satin Nickel
Prefinished White Colonial 3
Solid wood interior 2
Trim & Finish Drywall Inside All Closets
‐approved ½” Pad in‐Panel Colonial Hollow‐Core Passage and‐fold Doors Painted White.‐1/4” Baseboard &‐1/2” Casing.
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
24” Kitchen Soffits or Galley or Crown
‐vented
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
American Standard Elongated 1.6gl Water Closet
Bath Fan / Light Combination
Decorator Accessories
1 energy star fan / light combo per home
:‐Piece Tub/Shower Unit
PLUMBING
All Plumbing Stubbed Through Floor for
On
PEX Fresh Water Supply Line
PVC Drain, Waste & Vent
Shut
Delta Anti
Tub/Showers
:‐site Connection‐Offs at All Sinks & Water Closets‐Scald Devices on Showers and/or
ELECTRIC
200 Amp Full
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
:‐Size Entrance Panel Box
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.