Questions Hot Springs Area Mobile Home Owners Ask Us

Typically $450 to $800 for a singlewide, $750 to $1,400 for a doublewide and $1,100 to $2,000 for a triplewide. Rebuilt piers typically add $150 to $400 each and anchor replacement $600 to $3,500. Your price comes in writing after we have seen the home.

Doors that stick or swing on their own, windows that bind, cracks at the corners of interior panels, a gap along a doublewide's ceiling seam, or a floor that slopes. HUD's federal benchmark calls a home adequately leveled when adjacent piers are within 1/4 inch of each other and exterior doors and windows do not bind.

NRCS maps most hillsides around Hot Springs as shallow soils, 10 to 20 inches over shale or sandstone that is tilted, and the depth to rock can change within a few feet. Two footings a few feet apart can sit on very different ground, so we check each one.

It depends where you are. The Bismarck, Sherless and Clebit soils mapped around town rate low for shrink and swell. Carnasaw soils, mapped toward Piney, Fountain Lake and Jessieville, have a clay subsoil that the Garland County survey rates moderate, and the Saline County survey, on the Saline County side of Hot Springs Village, rates it high.

The Arkansas Manufactured Home Commission, part of the Department of Labor and Licensing, licenses installers. Ask for the AMHC license number and check it with the Commission's licensee search.

State law defines installation as work done to stabilize, support or anchor a manufactured home when the Commission's rules govern it, and those rules cover piers, footings and anchoring. They do not mention releveling by name. If you want a ruling on your job, call the Commission at (501) 324-9032.

For a used home, the Commission's specifications say no more than 8 feet apart on center, with the first pier within 2 feet of each end of each I-beam. A new home follows its manufacturer's installation instructions.

Not when anchoring is being replaced. Arkansas rules say anchors, straps, clips and other anchoring components must be new and may not be re-used. Re-tensioning straps that are in good shape during a relevel is a different thing.

For placing a home in the city, yes: the city's placement application requires a home built after October 25, 1994, approved skirting, installation to the manufacturer's and state rules, and an inspection and certificate of occupancy before anyone moves in. For work on a home already in place, ask the Planning Department at 133 Convention Blvd.

Garland County has no planning board and issues no certificate of occupancy. Its Floodplain Department permits development in the county, and in a floodplain a manufactured home must be elevated and anchored against flotation, collapse and lateral movement.

Federal storm records for Garland County include mobile homes pushed off their blocks near Thunder Road in the May 2024 Lake Hamilton tornado, and about 21 mobile homes destroyed on the April 2011 tornado track from Ozark Lithia to Fountain Lake. Good piers and anchors matter here.

Before you come back for the season is a good time, and after any storm. NOAA's Hot Springs station shows May as the wettest month on average, so a spring look catches problems early.