How to plan
Building your Honomobo is a team effort. While we build your home in the factory, site work—including the foundation, utilities, and final connections—is completed by you and your general contractor. Thoughtful planning ensures your Honomobo is ready to install and enjoy soon after delivery.
Honomobo homes are designed for straightforward utility connections. Each service connects directly beneath the structure, functioning just like a traditional home. Depending on your property and preferences, these services can tap into city systems, private infrastructure, or off-grid setups. Honomobo provides guidance on insulation or weather protection for water and sewer hookups, particularly for foundation options that may not include climate controlled connection points.
Honomobo homes connect utilities directly beneath the structure, like traditional homes. They support city, private, or off-grid systems and offer guidance on insulating water and sewer hookups for non-climate-controlled foundations.
Easily connect to city water supplies or well systems, ensuring a reliable water source regardless of location. Weather protection or insulation requirements for exposed connections are identified during the planning process.
Wastewater management is simple, with connections to city sewer systems or septic fields. Honomobo highlights any additional measures needed to protect these connections in colder climates or with certain foundation options.
Electrical service connects directly to the grid, with details on service size provided based on your chosen model. For those seeking independence, all Honomobo homes are solar-ready, offering a flexible path to off-grid living.
Three recommended foundation systems provide reliable and efficient support for Honomobo homes. Additionally, there is flexibility to design a custom foundation, carport, or garage tailored to individual needs. With detailed load requirements and connection specifications, every foundation is optimized to ensure seamless support, whether using a recommended option or a custom design.
A versatile foundation option, the concrete garage assembly can be precast or site-built. Adding a garage beneath your home maximizes yard space while offering storage and a secure, weather-protected space for vehicles. Precast systems arrive pre-engineered for efficiency, allowing installation of footings and foundation walls to be completed in as little as one day.
A clean and straightforward option, the concrete perimeter foundation offers flexibility in elevation, whether set low to the ground or slightly raised. Both configurations provide a stable base and a polished look. This popular choice for ground-level applications easily accommodates the addition of a concrete landing or patio, enhancing functionality and aesthetics.
Ideal for remote locations or preserving surrounding trees, screw piles offer a minimally invasive, efficient foundation solution. Each pile serves as an individual footing with its own auger bit drilled securely into the ground. While not suitable for bedrock, this plug-and-play option simplifies the building process and minimizes site disruption in locations that allow for it.
Honomobo will design & provide custom beam packages to support the unit above the foundation. These can be used to cantilever the unit over hillsides and rough terrain. We take care of the design and engineering. They are fabricated in our factory and shipped to site ahead of the unit.
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Our team will help you navigate a modular certification process and local permitting. We have a process to navigate various state administered modular programs across the United States such as HCD in California. In Canada modular certifications are administered federally through CSA A277 and CSA Z240. While the Honomobo itself falls under the modular certification, projects generally require local permitting to review zoning requirements, foundation engineering, and any other site built components. Honomobo will work with you to create drawing packages, coordinate necessary engineering, and navigate permitting regulations in your area.
