All you need to know about building a modular home in Ireland

It's become increasingly costly to build a house. One solution is buying a prefabricated or flat-pack home. We talk to three Irish suppliers 

An interior of one of the three-bed Pod Factory modular homes.

The word prefab may bring to mind the freezing cold classrooms of your childhood, but leave that memory in the past — the prefabricated homes of today are customisable, exceptionally high quality, and built to last.

With soaring labour costs showing no signs of falling back down to reasonable levels, it has become increasingly difficult to build a home in Ireland. Even if you can afford it, the chances of finding contractors to carry out the work within a reasonable timeline are next to impossible. It’s a problem with no easy answer, and in the meantime, it’s worth exploring alternative solutions.