[istorical]

It sort of sounds like perhaps if you are going pre-fab you shouldn't expect to be able to do any modifications or fit their pieces to your own plans? Instead just find a site that is suitable and plop down their exact premade floorplan?

[brixon]

It sounds like they were trying to build a Buick on the Ford Model T assembly line.

[pfhorge]

I have no evidence, but I suspect that's likely to get the best outcome, as far as the factory's quality level is concerned. They're pretty heavily optimized for a particular set of processes, and anything that departs from that happy path seems likely to increase risk.

[rorykoehler]

Yes, this story reminds me of some clients I’ve had that always want to customise off the shelf software to do what they want when it would be easier to build it from scratch.