Leveling Questions
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:56 pm
We got the bibile, I mean manual for Mobile Home repair.. so this summer we want to try and re-level our 16x80 MH ourselves. I had a few questions before we try this.
Our siding ( nice looking vinyl siding ) is very 'wavy' when you look down the side of our home, would leveling help this in appearence, and if so by how much roughly? Should it make a noticeable difference, or can vinyl warbling (waves) be caused by something else other than an unlevel home ?
The roof warbles and waves the same way. Which could possibly be a main cause (and bad shingles) for a window leak problem we're having now also I bet.
I'm just curious if jacking a home up straight and tight can fix this or if it usually only makes it look like 10 - 20% better, or what else we could do to fix our waves and warbles.
Just trying to make sure I'm on the right track of fixing the old homestead up the right way.
Also when we bought the trailer, we found these funny huge jacks under the trailer. A neighbor said the moving company probably left them when they moved the house here to the park (we don't know who moved it here company wise). Can we use these to help level the home ? Any reason to keep them ?
I don't know who to return them to as it was years ago and a different owner long gone now.
Our siding ( nice looking vinyl siding ) is very 'wavy' when you look down the side of our home, would leveling help this in appearence, and if so by how much roughly? Should it make a noticeable difference, or can vinyl warbling (waves) be caused by something else other than an unlevel home ?
The roof warbles and waves the same way. Which could possibly be a main cause (and bad shingles) for a window leak problem we're having now also I bet.
I'm just curious if jacking a home up straight and tight can fix this or if it usually only makes it look like 10 - 20% better, or what else we could do to fix our waves and warbles.
Just trying to make sure I'm on the right track of fixing the old homestead up the right way.
Also when we bought the trailer, we found these funny huge jacks under the trailer. A neighbor said the moving company probably left them when they moved the house here to the park (we don't know who moved it here company wise). Can we use these to help level the home ? Any reason to keep them ?
I don't know who to return them to as it was years ago and a different owner long gone now.