On a cold day in January, homeowners Nick and Catherine
Swezey stood in their kitchen looking up at the sky. The roof of their 1923
bungalow in the District’s Kent
neighborhood had been torn off to make way for a prefabricated addition on top
of the house.
“That was one of the most dramatic moments presented by this
project,” said Nick Swezey, advertising director for the Weekly Standard
magazine. “We crossed our fingers it wouldn’t rain that day.”
Fortunately, the weather cooperated and three prebuilt
structures were hoisted by crane the next morning and assembled into a second
story within the day. The new 900-square-foot level adds a bedroom, a bathroom
and a walk-in closet for the homeowners, and a pair of bedrooms and a bathroom
for their daughter Charlotte and son William. “Our kids were thrilled when they
could look into their rooms on the ground before they were lifted into
place,” said Swezey.
Case Design/Remodeling Inc., a Bethesda-based company, was responsible
for designing the Swezeys’ addition. “This was our first modular project,” said
Bill Millholland, a Case executive vice president. “We got into this type of
remodeling to do it in a less expensive and faster way.”
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Once the addition was designed, Case tapped Icon Legacy Custom Modular Homes of Selinsgrove, Pa.,
to fabricate the structures. Windows, wallboard, crown and base moldings,
bedroom carpeting, bathroom vanities, mirrors, toilets and tub were already set
into place when the structures arrived on a flatbed truck. Roof rafters and
sheathing were pre-built and hoisted into place, and roof shingles were
installed by the end of the day.
The control over construction quality in the factory and
accelerated construction schedule convinced the homeowners to try the modular
method. “It’s a very efficient process. We were able to get the square footage
we were looking for in a shorter period of time — six months of design and
construction versus the nine to 12 months it would have taken to stick-build
the second floor,” said Catherine Swezey, who works for HotelMe.com, a hotel
review Web site.
From the Real Estate section of the Washington Post.
From the Real Estate section of the Washington Post.
1 comment:
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