Mobile Home Leveling in Malvern and Hot Spring County

Malvern is the county seat of Hot Spring County, southeast of Hot Springs on US 270 and I-30. A relevel here typically runs $450 to $800 for a singlewide and $750 to $1,400 for a doublewide. We look under the home first and put the price in writing.

Where the homes are

The Census counts about 3,100 mobile homes in Hot Spring County, about one home in five. Only about 270 of them are inside Malvern, so roughly nine in ten are out in the county: around Rockport, Magnet Cove, Bismarck and the roads between. Malvern itself is younger than the county by Census median age, about 38 against 43.

Malvern has I-30 access at exits 97, 98 and 99, and US 270 passes northeast of town on a bypass toward Hot Springs, about 20 miles away. Rockport is a city in Hot Spring County with I-30 access at exit 98. Magnet Cove sits in the Ouachita Mountains southeast of Hot Springs on AR 51, north of US 270. Bismarck is a rural CDP at the crossing of AR 7 and AR 84, near DeGray Lake.

The ground around Malvern

This is different ground from the Hot Springs hills. Around Malvern the NRCS maps mostly Saffell gravelly fine sandy loam and Pikeville fine sandy loam. Both are well drained, low in shrink and swell, with no restrictive layer recorded in the survey data. Along the creeks, Ozan fine sandy loam is mapped as occasionally flooded.

Around Bismarck the picture changes again: Carnasaw-Bismarck-Zafra and Pirum-Sherless-Shermore units, with shallow shale under the Bismarck soils and, in Shermore, a fragipan 20 to 40 inches down.

On well drained loam, a sunk footing can have a plain reason: a footing that was too small, set on loose fill, or sitting where water runs off the roof. We look for that before we rebuild. See pier and footing repair.

Weather here

NOAA’s Malvern station (1991 to 2020) averages about 57.5 inches of rain a year, with April the wettest month, and about 68 nights a year at or below freezing, more than the Hot Springs station.

Hot Spring County has its own storm record. On March 1, 1997, a tornado entered the county south of Friendship, damaged or destroyed homes in Donaldson, and passed just south and east of Malvern on a track of about 24 miles. The federal record calls the damage mostly F2 and F3, with some structural damage around Donaldson consistent with an F4. If your home has been through a storm since it was set, our storm damage reset page explains what we check.

What Arkansas requires here

The same state rules apply in Hot Spring County as in Garland. The Arkansas Manufactured Home Commission licenses installers. Its specifications for used homes call for piers no more than 8 feet apart, concrete footings of at least 16 by 16 by 4 inches, mandatory anchoring with anchors at least 3 feet deep, and new anchoring parts when anchoring is replaced. See the Arkansas rules page.

What we do here

• Mobile home leveling
• Tie-downs and anchors
• Skirting repair and vapor barrier and underbelly work
• A pre-purchase foundation check before you buy

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