Mobile Home Leveling in Piney and Lake Hamilton

Piney, Lake Hamilton and Rockwell sit south and west of Hot Springs, all about 4 to 5 miles from downtown in a straight line, and between them they hold one of the biggest clusters of mobile homes in Garland County. 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 quote in writing.

Piney has more mobile homes than the city

The Census counts about 870 mobile homes in Piney, a CDP in Garland County, which is more than the roughly 830 inside the whole City of Hot Springs. That is more than a third of Piney’s homes. It is also a young place, with a median age around 35.

Lake Hamilton is a CDP of 2,084 people (2020) where AR 7 crosses the lake on its two islands, about 7 miles south of the center of Hot Springs by road. Its mobile home count is small, but more than a third of all its homes are held for seasonal or occasional use, so a lot of lake places sit empty for stretches. Rockwell, a CDP of 4,548, has very few mobile homes. Lake Hamilton itself is a 7,200-acre reservoir on the Ouachita River.

MHVillage lists communities in this direction including Lake Hamilton Estates on Albert Pike Road and McConnells Lakeview on Kleinshore Road.

The ground here

Around Piney the NRCS maps mostly Bismarck-Carnasaw soils, on slopes from 3 up to 40 percent. Bismarck is shallow, 10 to 20 inches over tilted, folded shale. Carnasaw is deeper, 40 to 60 inches to shale, but slowly permeable, with a clay subsoil the Garland County survey rates moderate for shrink and swell. In the bottoms, Mazarn silt loam is somewhat poorly drained, with a perched water table within 1 to 2 feet of the surface from December through May most years.

Around Lake Hamilton and Rockwell it changes to Bismarck, Sherless and Clebit on stony slopes: shallow to tilted shale or hard sandstone, low in shrink and swell, with a depth to rock that can change within a few feet.

So in Piney we pay close attention to footings in clay or in a wet bottom; nearer the lake, to footings that may sit half on rock. See pier and footing repair and water under the home.

The 2024 Lake Hamilton tornado

In the early hours of May 8, 2024, an EF2 began near Amity and Orbit Roads, several miles west of Lake Hamilton, and moved east-northeast. Near Thunder Road, the federal storm record says it “damaged several mobile homes, overturning one, and pushing several off of their blocks”. It crossed the lake, damaging floating docks, and hit structures on the peninsulas. A home that rode it out without visible damage can still have moved on its piers. Our storm damage reset page explains what we check.

What we do here

• Mobile home leveling for homes that have drifted out
• Tie-downs and anchors, re-tensioned or replaced with new parts as Arkansas requires
• Vapor barrier and underbelly repair where wet bottoms soak the belly
• A pre-purchase foundation check before you buy

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