Typical Mobile Home Leveling Prices in Hot Springs

Every figure here is a typical range, not a price for your home. Your price comes from us in writing after we have been under the home and read the frame at the piers. Use the ranges to judge the size of the job and to check any number you are handed.

Relevel by home size

A doublewide is two halves joined at the marriage line, with piers under that seam as well as under the outside beams, and every row has to come back to the same plane. A triplewide adds a second seam.

What moves a relevel up the range

• Failed piers. Cracked blocks, tipped stacks or a footing that has sunk mean rebuilding, not reshimming. Those are priced per pier below.
• Slope. NRCS maps much of the ground near Hot Springs on 3 to 30 percent slopes, and on a sloped lot the piers at the downhill end stand taller. Arkansas rules call for concrete-filled, rebarred blocks once a support column passes 52 inches, and an engineer’s design once footings, piers and wood pass 80 inches.
• Rock. NRCS maps much of the ground here as 10 to 20 inches of soil over tilted shale or sandstone. Rock where a footing needs to go can change how the footing is set.
• Water. Some creek bottoms hold a perched water table 1 to 2 feet down from December to May, and the state rules say an installation must not add to ponding under the home.

Piers and footings

The Commission’s specifications for used homes call for concrete footings of at least 16 by 16 by 4 inches on undisturbed or at least 90% compacted soil, piers no more than 8 feet apart on center, and no more than 7 inches of cap blocks. More on pier and footing repair.

Tie-downs and anchors

Arkansas makes anchoring mandatory, and its rules say anchoring components must be new and may not be re-used. See tie-downs and anchors.

Under and around the home

Details on vapor barrier and underbelly work and skirting repair. The inspection is the same one in our pre-purchase foundation check.

After a storm

Resetting a home that has been pushed on its piers is priced from what we find: the relevel range for the home’s size, plus each pier we rebuild and any anchors we replace. See storm damage reset. Your insurer may want our written findings, so we put them on paper.

Who should be under your home

The Arkansas Manufactured Home Commission licenses installers. Ask for the AMHC license number on any quote and check it with the Commission. A Recovery Fund paid into by licensees can cover repair costs, up to $10,000 per violation, when a licensee will not or cannot fix work the Commission has directed them to fix. That protection follows a licensee, which is one more reason to ask. The Arkansas rules page has the detail.

Getting a number for your home

The cost calculator builds a range from these same figures. Then send us the details through the quote form. We come out, look under the home and write you a price that names every pier, anchor and panel it covers.