What’s the difference.

Towing Caravans, trailer homes, tiny houses, static caravans, park homes, residential homes, lodges, cabins, prefabricated homes. They have many names but, they all refer to factory fabricated mobile homes that don’t require a footing. Therefore, they are not permanent fixtures on the landscape, they are homes that can be moved, whether by your own car or craned onto a truck and driven away. The main difference between these types of houses is whether you can transport the houses in one piece or whether they must be broken down into sections.  Caravans and Tiny houses can be mostly hitched onto the back of a car and are towed under your own steam. Static caravans, park homes and lodges are mostly transported by trucks and require a crane to lift them and that leaves prefabricated houses which mostly come in sections and must be transported in pieces and assembled on site. Prefabricated houses are the most similar to traditional houses in their appearance and are normally the biggest of the mobile house range. As a buying customer, you really have to consider which of the mobile houses are going to best suit your needs. Clearly this is going to depend very much on budget and whether a land plot is already available and whether planning permission is required. If you are considering the prefabricated housing option, then contact your local planning department as different locations have different regulations. We will save that for another blog.

If we put the prefabricated houses to one side, then what’s the difference between the other mobile houses. Caravans, Tiny Houses and Trailer Homes are all built on a trailer chassis and can be towed by your own car. Static Caravans, Lodges and Cabins don’t have trailers and sit on legs. They require at least a concrete or gravel flat slab to locate them. Of all the towable range of mobile homes I would really only recommend a caravan to be of the holiday type and perhaps the weekend getaway. They are designed for frequent road use and the convenience of moving them under your own steam. Tiny Houses and Trailer Homes, although also built on trailers and designed to move with your own car, are more of a long term stay in one location and only moved when necessary to a new location. Caravans are much more compact and don’t have huge amounts of space therefore they suit short term living but are much more mobile. Tiny houses and Trailer Homes are built of traditional housing materials are much roomier for longer term living. Therefore, although still movable with your own car they suit longer term living much better. A major difference between Caravans and Tiny Houses is the fact that Tiny Houses are built over two levels making the bedrooms upstairs leaving all of the downstairs for living area. They have a height limit of 4.2m, whereas Caravans are built on only one level which means the bedrooms are combined with the rest of the living area making them far less roomy at a height limit of 3m. This is clearly a factor in your decision of which mobile house suits your needs best.

Now you have a better understanding about the different types of mobile housing what does Tiny Tudor design and build to be different?

At Tiny Tudor we have designed Tiny House trailers to be detachable from the houses. Our designs can then be either static or towable. We have crossed the barriers to combine both worlds. But still towable by your own car. When your house has been detached from the trailer it also leaves a convenient spare trailer for your other needs or park the trailer next to the tiny house and take our decking design on top. Now you have extended the living area of the house to make a perfect dinning area to be enjoyed in the summer. It’s all about thinking out of the traditional box and breaking the traditional idea of a mobile house. Check out the rest of our website to see details, designs and prices of all of our different models.