Hot Springs Mobile Home Leveling 
We relevel mobile and manufactured homes across Garland, Hot Spring and Montgomery counties, from the Hot Springs city limits out to Piney, Lake Hamilton, Mountain Pine, Malvern and Mount Ida. A singlewide relevel typically runs $450 to $800 and a doublewide $750 to $1,400. We get under the home, read the frame at every pier, and put the price in writing before any lifting starts.
Most mobile homes here are out in the county
The Census counts about 7,500 mobile homes in Garland County, roughly one home in seven. Only about 830 of them are inside the City of Hot Springs. Piney alone has around 870, more than the whole city. Hot Spring County has about 3,100 and Montgomery County about 1,700, where close to three homes in ten are mobile homes. So much of our work is out along US 70, US 270, AR 7 and the county roads, though there are long-standing communities in town too, several of them along Central Avenue.
The ground under a Hot Springs home
The NRCS soil survey maps most of the hillsides around town as Bismarck, Sherless and Clebit soils on stony slopes. Bismarck is 10 to 20 inches of soil over shale that is tilted and folded, with the beds dipping about 50 degrees. Clebit is 10 to 20 inches over hard sandstone, and NRCS says that depth “may be extremely variable within short distances”. None of the three swells much when wet.
That matters for leveling. One footing can sit on rock while the next sits on a foot of soil, and a lot cut into a slope can have fill at one end. North and west toward Piney, Jessieville and Royal, Carnasaw soils come in, with a slowly permeable clay subsoil that the county survey rates moderate for shrink and swell. In some creek bottoms, Mazarn silt loam carries a perched water table 1 to 2 feet down from December to May. Read more under pier and footing repair.
What Arkansas expects under a home
The Arkansas Manufactured Home Commission licenses installers. For a used home, its installation specifications call for piers no more than 8 feet apart, footings of at least 16 by 16 by 4 inches on undisturbed or compacted soil, no more than 7 inches of cap blocks, and anchoring on every home, with new anchors buried at least 3 feet. The rules do not mention releveling directly. Ask whoever you hire for their AMHC license number and check it. Our Arkansas rules page quotes the text.
What we do
- Mobile home leveling: reading the frame and bringing it back to level
- Pier and footing repair for sunk, tipped or cracked supports
- Tie-downs and anchors, re-tensioned or replaced with new parts
- Storm damage reset when wind or a tree has moved the home
- Skirting repair and vapor barrier and underbelly work
- A pre-purchase foundation check before you buy
Weather that moves homes
NOAA’s Hot Springs station averages about 58 inches of rain a year, with May the wettest month, and about 59 nights at or below freezing. Storms are the bigger story. In the early hours of May 8, 2024, an EF2 tornado crossed Lake Hamilton, and near Thunder Road it damaged several mobile homes, overturning one and pushing several off their blocks. In April 2011 an EF3 from Ozark Lithia to Fountain Lake destroyed about 21 mobile homes. If your home has been through a storm, our storm damage reset page explains what we check.
Start with the symptom
Doors that stick, water under the floor, or a relevel that made things worse each have their own page under problems we fix. Our typical ranges are on the pricing page, and the cost calculator turns them into a range for your home. When you are ready, send us the details through the quote form.