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Huf Haus

Four years ago, Channel4’s programme Grand Designs highlighted the Huf Haus in an excellent episode where an elderly couple demolished their 1956 custom home in order to build a new German, prefabricated home: a customised Huf Haus.  Grand Designs recently re-aired the episode with an update, showing the home four years later and discussing it with the owners.  If you are in the UK, we highly recommend trying to track down the episode.

The Huf Haus is a modern take on a classic German home.  The company operates an impressive factory in Germany that custom builds homes for delivery across Europe.  The company has an especially large following in the UK.  Teams of specially trained Huf employees assemble the homes with utmost skill and efficiency.  Most homes are assembled in under one week (assuming that the sitework is completed in the time when the home is being fabricated).

Huf Haus

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2 Comments »

  Jerry J wrote @ June 3rd, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Can these homes be built over a basement ? Are they as safe as comventional construction when it comes to storms and winds ?

  tewks wrote @ June 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm

I haven’t heard of these being built with a basement, but given the precision of this company’s engineering, I wouldn’t put it past them.

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