Mobile home leveling questions..
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:49 pm
Hello hello, my names Tyler, me and my family moved into a 30xby80 double wide built in early 1990's a couple years ago.
On some exterior walls the floor seems to dip down quite a bit. As much as a 1/2'' to 3/4'' while the rest of the floor is just about level.. on some interior walls i have the same issue as well as where the two parts meet there is a hallway and the floor seems to dip towards the center...
So i have 4 beams that run long ways from front to back with. the beams start 40" from the outside edge on each side and seems to use long out riggers about every 80" to support the outside edges of home.. the middle of the home also uses outriggers from the two inside beams inward. so outriggers seem to be used to support the middle of home and the outside edges where it seems my problems are. we have an extra living room my wife desperately wants to remodel and thats where i first noticed how unlevel the floors are on the outside edges. I even opened up the area above insulation in the crawlspace to inspect wood and sub floor and they seem to be in great condition, no rot or cracks or anything but is definetly way unlevel. its a 5 bedroom 3 full bath mobile home and we def fillled it up with things as far as weight which when we get an outdoor building will relieve much of it.
There are tie downs going all the way down on each side. which look proper. as well a those 3 armed footing systems are installed in two different parts..
Since weve moved in here i had grading done, gutters installed and piped underground away from house to get the water out of the way. As well as a metal roof installed on top of the original layer of shingles.
double wide sits on the piers which are cinderblocks sitting on top of poured concrete with wood wedges that seem to be about rotted.. out side perimeter is the smaller cinderblocks for "permanent foundation" but the home doesnt use it for a bearing load whatsoever
i know it needs releveled since site drainage and grading were never done properly since we moved in but im not convinced releveling will fix all my issues and as of right now all my windows and doors open and close just fine and not really any cracks in sheet rock that i can see... any advice? i want to do this myself with a couple of jacks and a water level.
Actually about to go to lowes to get stuff to make one. Please give me wisdom!
On some exterior walls the floor seems to dip down quite a bit. As much as a 1/2'' to 3/4'' while the rest of the floor is just about level.. on some interior walls i have the same issue as well as where the two parts meet there is a hallway and the floor seems to dip towards the center...
So i have 4 beams that run long ways from front to back with. the beams start 40" from the outside edge on each side and seems to use long out riggers about every 80" to support the outside edges of home.. the middle of the home also uses outriggers from the two inside beams inward. so outriggers seem to be used to support the middle of home and the outside edges where it seems my problems are. we have an extra living room my wife desperately wants to remodel and thats where i first noticed how unlevel the floors are on the outside edges. I even opened up the area above insulation in the crawlspace to inspect wood and sub floor and they seem to be in great condition, no rot or cracks or anything but is definetly way unlevel. its a 5 bedroom 3 full bath mobile home and we def fillled it up with things as far as weight which when we get an outdoor building will relieve much of it.
There are tie downs going all the way down on each side. which look proper. as well a those 3 armed footing systems are installed in two different parts..
Since weve moved in here i had grading done, gutters installed and piped underground away from house to get the water out of the way. As well as a metal roof installed on top of the original layer of shingles.
double wide sits on the piers which are cinderblocks sitting on top of poured concrete with wood wedges that seem to be about rotted.. out side perimeter is the smaller cinderblocks for "permanent foundation" but the home doesnt use it for a bearing load whatsoever
i know it needs releveled since site drainage and grading were never done properly since we moved in but im not convinced releveling will fix all my issues and as of right now all my windows and doors open and close just fine and not really any cracks in sheet rock that i can see... any advice? i want to do this myself with a couple of jacks and a water level.
Actually about to go to lowes to get stuff to make one. Please give me wisdom!