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2. Manufactured housing - Wikipedia

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   The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect." [2] Despite the formal definition, mobile ...

3. Mobile home - Wikipedia

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   Mobile homes are designed and constructed to be transportable by road in one or two sections. Mobile homes are no larger than 20 m × 6.8 m (65 ft 7 in × 22 ft 4 in) with an internal maximum height of 3.05 m (10 ft 0 in). Legally, mobile homes can still be defined as "caravans".

4. Skirting - Wikipedia

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   Skirting can refer to: Construction elements Baseboards; Molding (decorative) protective devices such as lift table bellows; vinyl elements that covers the crawl space under a mobile home; Skirt steaks, also known as beef skirting; skirting, cloth used to decorate, cover, or hide tables or chairs from view, often used in exhibitions

5. Prefabs in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   The Ministry of Works created research institutes, standards and competition authorities that resulted in core building regulations. [citation needed]All approved prefab units had to have a minimum floor space of 635 square feet (59.0 m 2), and be a maximum of 7.5 feet (2.3 m) wide to allow for transportation by road.

6. Tower blocks in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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   Generally, the tower blocks were built on cheap greenfield land skirting established cities. [7] Although the property prices for these periphery sites were markedly cheaper than their inner-city counterparts, they often had little access to public amenities, such as public transport. [4]

7. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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   a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g. "You properly bodged that up" ("you really made a mess of that"). (US: kludge, botch or cob, shortened form of cobble) See Bodger. boffin an expert, such as a scientist or engineer bog roll (roll of) toilet ("bog") paper (slang). bog-standard *