Owner Chad Walton received the letter when SnapSpace Solutions, Inc.was hired to build a home, and eventually decided to acquire the license just to satisfy the state. He contends the regulations that apply to modular buildings made from containers are different than those that apply to MH, according to bangordailynews.
SnapSpace completed the home four months ago. “It took us four months jumping through hoops we shouldn’t have had to,” Walton said. “Welcome to doing business in Maine.” The homebuyer just now received his building permit. Once the concrete is poured, it will take about three days to set the home, he added.
The company, operating from a building that Walton owns but that will be sold in January at a lender-ordered auction, repurposes the containers into bathrooms, offices, storage facilities, bunkhouses and concession stands. This is his first home.
Walton acknowledges the 125,000 square foot building, which also houses two other separate businesses, is larger than what he needed, but intends to relocate either in a smaller building in Bangor, or move the modular container business to South Carolina.
Walton is nonplussed by the loss of the building. “SnapSpace is fine, we are paying all of our bills and fully expect to continue producing structures involving ocean containers,” he said in a statement. “In today’s economy it’s a given that the demand for compact, highly efficient and affordable living space will only go up.” ##
(Photo credit: archdaily/SlapBcN–discarded shipping containers)
