Mobile Home Leveling in Mountain Pine, Royal and Sunshine

West of Hot Springs, toward Lake Ouachita, we work along AR 227, AR 192 and US 270. 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.

The area

Mountain Pine is a small city in Garland County, about 9 miles from Hot Springs in a straight line, immediately southeast of Lake Ouachita below the Blakely Mountain Dam. AR 192 connects it to AR 7 between Hot Springs Village and Jessieville, and AR 227 connects it to US 270 in Hot Springs. The Census counts about 100 mobile homes there, a third of its homes.

Royal is an unincorporated community in Garland County out US 270. AR 227 winds north through the Sunshine community and ends at US 270 west of Royal. Lake Ouachita, built by the Corps of Engineers from 1948 to 1953, is the largest lake entirely in Arkansas and is surrounded by the Ouachita National Forest.

The ground

Around Royal, NRCS maps Bismarck-Carnasaw soils on 3 to 20 percent slopes, and Mazarn silt loam in the bottoms. Bismarck is shallow, 10 to 20 inches over tilted, folded shale. Carnasaw is deeper but slowly permeable, with a clay subsoil the Garland County survey rates moderate for shrink and swell. Mazarn is somewhat poorly drained, with a perched water table 1 to 2 feet down from December through May most years.

That mix means one lot can have rock near the surface on the high side and wet silt on the low side. We check what each footing sits on. See pier and footing repair and water under the home.

Storms on record out here

April 25, 2011. An EF2 tracked from Maddox to the Sunshine community, around Old Dallas Road. The federal storm record’s Red Cross survey counted 8 mobile homes destroyed, 4 with major damage and 9 with minor damage. The same night another EF2 ran from Maddox north toward the eastern end of Lake Ouachita, through the Bear community, Brady Mountain Road and Lake Ouachita State Park; the Red Cross survey counted 3 mobile homes with major damage and 9 with minor damage.

May 30, 2013. An EF1 from Maddox to Royal destroyed a mobile home and two travel trailers, and tore one end off another mobile home.

Homes that rode out a storm without visible damage can still have moved on their piers. Our storm damage reset page explains what we check, and tie-downs and anchors covers what Arkansas requires: anchoring is mandatory, anchors at least 3 feet deep, and new parts when anchoring is replaced.

Weather out here

NOAA’s Hot Springs station averages about 58 inches of rain a year, with May the wettest month, and about 59 nights a year at or below freezing. NRCS says the Mazarn bottoms carry their perched water from December through May, so a spring look under the home is a good habit.

Lake places

If your home near the lake sits empty part of the year, a check before you come back for the season, and after any storm, catches pier and belly trouble before it grows. See mobile home leveling and skirting repair.

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