Palm Harbor's Florida home

Across the nation, more and more home-buying consumers are seeking affordable, quality-built alternatives to more expensive site-built homes. As a result, builders and developers are realizing the unique benefits of featuring factory-built homes in their projects. Based in Dallas, TX, Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. is one of the nation's largest builders of manufactured homes, with a focus on a high-end, customized niche of the market.

Their Show Village 2005 house is an example of state-of-the-art construction materials and techniques, along with design elements and features which showcase the latest in product development from fixtures to flooring.

Going For the Gold:
Palm Harbor Homes Wins NHQ Gold Award

In 2001, Palm Harbor won the NHQ Gold Award - quite a feat considering the company won the very first time they submitted an application. Sponsored by the NAHB Research Center and Professional Builder, the coveted National Housing Quality (NHQ) Award is the building industry's highest recognition for quality achievement. The award is patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the benchmark for quality awards in any industry. All entries are judged by panels of experts who evaluate the role that customer-focused quality plays in construction, business management, sales, design, and warranty service.

"The fact that this award was won by a manufactured home company surprised many builders," says Mike Wnek, Director of Marketing for Palm Harbor. "For a lot of builders and developers, there are many misperceptions about factory-built homes." Wnek himself is thrilled that Palm Harbor won the award, but not surprised. Nor is he surprised that many builders are unaware of the quality of their systems-built manufactured homes. "When builders visit our factory, their eyes get wide open and their jaws drop. We have 24 homes on display, and they come away completely impressed by our technology, assembly and quality." A close examination of a Palm Harbor home illustrates this. Every framing member, all floors, decking - everything - is glued and nailed, using resin-coated screw-shank nails for extra holding power.

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See the Palm Harbor Florida house at Show Village 2005. And if you're interesed in visiting the Palm Harbor factory or seeing a model near you, visit Palm Harbor's website at www.palmharbor.com.