Mobile home skirting

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If you are in need of skirting for you manufactured home, I have the brackets that hold it in place. They are made of galvanized steel rather than a frame work of pressure treated wood that will leach toxins into the ground. And they are guarantied for the life of your home. See them at www.skirtit.net -Darren Perkins

-- Darren Perkins (ravensky@hotmail.com), February 25, 2002

Answers

I prefer a stemwall instead of the skirting. Not only does it help to keep the house from needing re-leveling, but it has a much cleaner look. Even better are the large stones you can put in the stemwall for a nice looking look. Flagstone looks great.

They passed a new law in Texas this year. Manufactured homes have to be secured on a cement pad or pillars like site built homes. This way, you can't move the house to another site. It raises the price of the manufactured home about $5,000. We're pretty sure the site built home builders got this law pushed thru.

-- ~Rogo (rogo2222@hotmail.com), February 25, 2002.


The rules and requirements vary considerably throughout the country and seem to be changing constantly. We just put in a doublewide mfg home. Put in cement runners with rebar reinforcment. Most of the weight of mfg homes is carried by the beams. Ours also required some perimiter blocking near windows and doors. We dry stacked split face block for skirting which looks great and saved us over $2000. This gives us access anywhere under the home without having to do the belly crawl. All the contractors wanted to do a pit set which is not only terribly expensive but seems kind of stupid to me. You dig a hole to set the home in, then back fill it, then have to excavate to provide drainage from the hole they just dug. One contractor took me to his house to show me how great his pit set was. We opened the access door to under the house and it was full of water. Whoops, no thanks. I recommend not using any kind of wood for skirting. I bought a single wide once that had the entire perimiter plate rotted out due to the former owner using wood skirting. It acted like a wick and drew moisture from the ground to the flooring. This of course will vary according to the climate you are in.

-- jz (oz49us@yahoo.com), February 25, 2002.

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