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3. ORDER / MANUFACTURE

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Purchase Orders & Agreements

The first stage in finalising your purchase of a SWALE Modular home is to request a formal quote, review our Terms & Conditions and place a Purchase Order (subject to your planning approval).


On completion of planning approval, agreements can be signed and a deposit will be required to confirm the order so the manufacturing process can begin.

If you require installation, SWALE is able to assist. We have a team of qualified and experienced builders and can provide you with a quote to do all on-site work.

DOWNLOAD YOUR PURCHASE ORDER HERE 

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Program & Payment Schedules

  • Your purchase package will contain all agreements, programmes, payment schedules, finishes options & furniture lists.
  • Regular notification of your home progress will keep you updated on our progress.

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40,000m2 Undercover Streamlined Method of Off-Site Production


Procedures For the Manufacture of Your New Home

1. Floor & Wall Components

  • Corten (weathering steel) plate is folded to exact dimensions along with RHS members to form our strong structure. 
  • Twist-Locks are formed into the structure for lifting, shipping and transport. 
  • All components are fully welded together to form our fully steel shell. 
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2. Custom Made Corten Steel Shells

  • Fold down decks and fold up roof / sofits not only create the protection but saves huge amounts of time and cost of installation. 
  • Our steel shells are then zinc prime painted and follow the most stringent ISO container paint process. 
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3. Details & Steel Bolt-on Accessories

  • Twist-Lock footings can be easily manufactured at different lengths to suit your sloping site. 
  • All external items such as louvres, gutters, chain down-pipes and stairs are all transported inside the unit and installed within hours with a battery rattle-gun. 
  • The beauty of a fully welded robust steel sheet shell is that they never leak or be badly damaged and are maintenance free.
  • All accessory items are pre-fitted in the factory, then carefully packed inside the unit with all fixings and tools required. 
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4. Marine paint, Insulation & Flooring

  • After the 2 zinc primer coats are applied, 3 base coats are applied before the architectural coats start. 
  • A polyurethane sandwich panel forms an inner lining creating an insulation lining similar to a fridge. Any chance of condensation forming between the steel and the sandwich panel is directed down the walls and released through weep-holes. 
  • Solid 25mm structural shipping container plywood is solidly screwed to steel floor joists at 400mm centres that gives an engineered strength and feel of a quality product. Plywood floors are placed over our 50mm sandwich panel.
  • At this stage all services are roughed in with electrical wire in conduits and all to Australian Standards.
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5. Doors, Windows - Lockup

  • Australian company 'Breezeway' louvre windows are used with 6mm toughened high performance, Sunergy Low 'e' glass. 
  • High quality European bi-fold doors with double glazed high performance, Low 'e' glass for energy efficiency. 
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6. Internal Lining & Decking 

  • 12mm E-Board internal lining with 12mm expressed joints provide a non-crack clean lined finish. 
  • Greenwood composite decking with a recycled timber option forms the external decks and stairs. 
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7. Bronze Paint & Base Protection 

  • Our modules are finished with a metallic bronze paint, activated to enhance the natural finish then sealed. 
  • For a more rustic wabi-sabi finish we offer a rust finish sealed with a non toxic, flat natural sealer. Chris personally has this finish outside and inside his Callignee home.
  • The bases of our modules receive 2 thick coats of a bituminous sealer for protection of rust and to ensure there are no gaps for ants. 
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8. Fittings Lights Furniture 

  • Bespoke products such as our steel vanity basin and brass pipe taps are hand made.
  • Exposed globes with dimmers form warm mood lighting while LED down-lights provide energy efficient warm lighting. 
  • Custom made high quality joinery made from American Oak gives a traditional real feel far away from the veneer joinery we see today.  
  • All furniture, shelves, curtain rails and curtains are fully installed and in position. Our tailor made inclusions perfect the package, with every item carefully selected for its design, style and practicality.
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9. Lifting & Shipping Certification 

  • SWALE modules undergo ISO certified weld testing and lifting certificates. 
  • These certificates are required for all shipping, lifting and transport

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10 Good Reasons Why Modular

10. State-of-the-art quality is built in – in half the time
For centuries people have built homes one board at a time. This is slow. It’s also expensive. Now, using the latest technology and construction materials, you can combine your spirit of individuality with breakthrough building methods like Modular Home Building that save time and money allowing you to send more on the finishes that count.
Taking virtually any home design you can dream up and building it in a clean, modern factory means we can finish your very own custom home on just about any lot, anywhere. Quickly.


9.    Your materials and workers aren't stuck outside in all sorts of weather 
Check out a stick-built job site in the heat or rain. Yep, that’s mud on the sub-floor. Yep, that’s wet lumber, dead bugs, and mouse droppings. Modular homes are built in clean, climate-controlled plants where workers are comfortable and they’re supervised daily by quality control managers from the company they work for and by third-party inspectors. This isn’t typically the case with workers in the field. (Anybody see the builder today? This week?) And really, how can one builder single-handedly oversee every phase of construction? Modular builders have supervisors and inspectors that specialize in each area of building your new home, so your home gets a great deal more attention during construction.

8.    Shorter, more predictable time line 
The modular process eliminates most of the uncontrollable forces like bad weather, the infamous “family emergency” worker and equally clever material delays because your home goes from foundation to 80% complete in one day. Alternatively, a stick-built home might drag through two or three stormy, snowy, or sweltering seasons – don’t forget about all your materials sitting out there in the muck - your modular home is built in about 2 weeks in the clean, dry factory, where the production schedule is virtually unalterable.

7.    Built stronger 
Because modules are transported and placed by a crane onto the foundation, they are built as tough, six-sided structures. That’s a couple more sides than a stick-built home. The results are stronger and more stable than with platform-style structures. This also explains how modular homes come from the factory with plumbing, electrical, drywall, and even cabinets and tile complete! And remember, every step of the way, every component of your home has been inspected and re-inspected.

6.    Reliable Quality Control 
Speaking of Quality Control (QC), modular home builders undergo frequent inspections of stringent quality building standards. Modular homes are built in factory settings by skilled workers who have the same managers overseeing them every day. Each modular plant is also inspected by third party inspectors regularly. Modules undergo strict inspections in the field once they are set to ensure the connections are made correctly between modules and to the foundation. Remember, local home inspectors are not inspecting for quality, they’re merely looking for building code compliance. Quality versus compliance. Big difference.

5.    More pre-construction planning, fewer surprises 
Stick-builders admit that time and time again some details of the plan end up “not working” in the field. That’s because the person who draws the plans is not a builder and vice-versa. The design world collides with the practical world. Often. With the modular process, your home plans are examined before construction begins by both the builder and the modular plant managers. Builders who use the modular process study plans much more closely than they would in a stick-build process because their crutch of “figuring it out in the field” is not available.

4.    The environmentally-friendly choice 
Worried about the planet your children and grandchildren will inherit? Us too. Modular construction creates far less landfill trash that stick-building. Waste from old construction methods can fill up dumpster after dumpster. Take a look next time you drive by a home under construction. See all that good, unused wood thrown out by framers? What a waste. The environmentally-friendly modular construction process generates minimal waste; it also reduces the disturbance to your site’s natural resources. This keeps costs down and helps save the planet.

3.    ENERGY STAR® – it’s not just for appliances anymore 
ENERGY STAR ratings can be applied to your whole house! But it will have to pass some pretty tough inspections. Many, if not most, modular homes consume 15% less energy than homes built to typical building codes. With ENERGY STAR and many other “green” certifications, you can be sure your new modular home will outperform the energy savings of typical stick-built homes. That saves you on your utility bills year after year!

2.    More bang for your buck 
Because modular homes are produced in state-of-the-art facilities that buy materials in mass quantities and benefit from lower rural labor rates, they tend to be less expensive as comparable stick-built homes built to the same specifications. A modular home will typically give you high build quality, 15% energy savings over a stick-built home of the same price, in less time, with less hassle!

1.    It just makes sense 
All things considered, the modular process just makes sense. Custom modular homes provide far better quality, speed, performance, and overall cost savings. Just ask your bank. It doesn’t differentiate between modular or stick-built for financing construction loans. Modular homes make sense for banks, builders, the environment – and most importantly - you!

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