Karsten Homes
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T. Bechtel
Karsten Homes
We are thinking of buying a Karsten Home here in Oregon. Would love to hear thoughts and imput onm Karsten. I believe that they are a fairly new company.
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Mac
Re: Karsten Homes
Not new at all - the Karsten family has been in the business for a long time - they were just sold to Clayton. I live in a Karsten triple we bought in 2003. The quality has been generally very good and we are pleased with it. Santiam Homes off Hwy. 20 in Stayton is about 3 mi. from the plant. Many people have been with the plant for many years (it was Guerdon Homes' plant until about 1999-2000). They answered all my questions.
One thing they would not do was plywood or OSB flooring. That seems to be typical for this region. I'm OK with that, as I don't have children spilling lots of water, but OSB would have been nicer. See if they'll do that.
Only issues I have had - they may be common to all homes, mfd, site-built or whatever - were:
Center section roof about 3/8" above the other two sections - you can detect this from outside the house
Couple of floor squeaks I have yet to track down
Small leak in shower drain that was easy to fix- they did a good job with access.
Santiam's setup crew were excellent and they had good subcontractors for electrical and plumbing.
Everything else has been just great.
One thing they would not do was plywood or OSB flooring. That seems to be typical for this region. I'm OK with that, as I don't have children spilling lots of water, but OSB would have been nicer. See if they'll do that.
Only issues I have had - they may be common to all homes, mfd, site-built or whatever - were:
Center section roof about 3/8" above the other two sections - you can detect this from outside the house
Couple of floor squeaks I have yet to track down
Small leak in shower drain that was easy to fix- they did a good job with access.
Santiam's setup crew were excellent and they had good subcontractors for electrical and plumbing.
Everything else has been just great.
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Mac
Re: Karsten Homes
Not new at all - the Karsten family has been in the business for a long time - they were just sold to Clayton. I live in a Karsten triple we bought in 2003. The quality has been generally very good and we are pleased with it. Santiam Homes off Hwy. 20 in Stayton is about 3 mi. from the plant. Many people have been with the plant for many years (it was Guerdon Homes' plant until about 1999-2000). They answered all my questions.
One thing they would not do was plywood or OSB flooring. That seems to be typical for this region. I'm OK with that, as I don't have children spilling lots of water, but OSB would have been nicer. See if they'll do that.
Only issues I have had - they may be common to all homes, mfd, site-built or whatever - were:
Center section roof about 3/8" above the other two sections - you can detect this from outside the house
Couple of floor squeaks I have yet to track down
Small leak in shower drain that was easy to fix- they did a good job with access.
Santiam's setup crew were excellent and they had good subcontractors for electrical and plumbing.
Everything else has been just great.
One thing they would not do was plywood or OSB flooring. That seems to be typical for this region. I'm OK with that, as I don't have children spilling lots of water, but OSB would have been nicer. See if they'll do that.
Only issues I have had - they may be common to all homes, mfd, site-built or whatever - were:
Center section roof about 3/8" above the other two sections - you can detect this from outside the house
Couple of floor squeaks I have yet to track down
Small leak in shower drain that was easy to fix- they did a good job with access.
Santiam's setup crew were excellent and they had good subcontractors for electrical and plumbing.
Everything else has been just great.
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