Mobile Home Leveling in Hot Springs Village, Fountain Lake and Jessieville

North of Hot Springs, AR 7 and AR 5 climb toward Fountain Lake, Jessieville and Hot Springs Village. A relevel up here typically runs $450 to $800 for a singlewide and $750 to $1,400 for a doublewide, plus $150 to $400 for each pier we rebuild. We look under the home first and quote in writing.

Who lives where

Hot Springs Village is a CDP in Garland and Saline counties, 15,861 people in 2020, on more than 26,000 mostly wooded acres. It was begun by Cooper Communities in 1970 and is run by a property owners association. The Census puts its median age near 70, but mobile homes are under 2% of its homes, about 160. For any work in the Village, the POA’s Architectural Control Committee, which issues permits for new homes, landscaping and remodeling, is the first call.

Fountain Lake is a town about 11 miles from Hot Springs in a straight line, strung along AR 5 and AR 128. AR 5 meets AR 7 at a roundabout there and continues into the Village.

Jessieville is an unincorporated community on AR 7, north of Hot Springs.

The ground

Carnasaw clay is more common up here than on the hills right around town. Around Fountain Lake and Jessieville the NRCS maps Bismarck-Carnasaw soils on 8 to 40 percent slopes, with patches of plain Carnasaw. Carnasaw is deep, 40 to 60 inches to shale, well drained but slowly permeable, with a subsoil up to about half clay. The Garland County survey rates its shrink and swell moderate. On the Saline County side of the Village, that county’s survey maps Carnasaw-Townley on steep slopes and rates that Carnasaw high.

Near Fountain Lake, Ceda gravelly loam along the creeks is mapped as frequently flooded.

Clay that swells and shrinks can move a footing up as well as down. On these lots we look at what each footing sits on and how water moves past it. See pier and footing repair and water under the home.

Two tornadoes on record

April 25, 2011. An EF3 ran from Ozark Lithia to Fountain Lake. The federal storm record says homes were destroyed in the Walnut Valley, Ozark Lithia, Ranch Estates and Mountain Valley areas, and a Red Cross survey counted about 25 houses and 21 mobile homes destroyed.

March 14, 2024. An EF2 touched down just north of Mountain Valley near AR 7 North and Casual Place and moved into Hot Springs Village, with winds estimated at 115 mph. The storm record says many homes there were damaged mainly by falling trees rather than by the tornado’s winds directly.

If your home was near either path, our storm damage reset page explains what we check.

What we do here

• Mobile home leveling and pier and footing repair
• Tie-downs and anchors, with new parts where anchoring is replaced
• Skirting repair after storms and falling limbs

Ask whoever works under your home for their Arkansas Manufactured Home Commission license number and check it. Typical costs are on the pricing page.