Mobile Home Leveling Questions for North Fort Myers Owners

Typical ranges are $450 to $800 for a singlewide and $750 to $1,400 for a doublewide, with pier rebuilds about $150 to $400 each. Those are not a quote. We put your price in writing after we have looked at the home.

Doors that stick or will not latch, windows that bind, floors that slope or feel soft, cracks at wall and ceiling corners, skirting that bows or pulls away, and on a doublewide a gap opening along the marriage line. Any of these means a pier may have dropped, and it is the list we start from when we survey a home.

Most of the ground is poorly drained flatwood sand, such as the Pineda, Oldsmar, Wabasso and Immokalee soils, with a water table often within 10 to 40 inches of the surface for much of the year. Wet sand under a pier pad gives way more easily, and water ponding under a home makes it worse. Florida Rule 15C-1 asks for the ground to be graded so water does not pond under the home.

Florida requires anyone who installs a mobile or manufactured home to hold an FLHSMV mobile home installer licence, which involves an 8-hour course, an exam, a bond and liability insurance. Unlicensed installation is a first-degree misdemeanour. Ask whoever does the work for the licence number and look it up.

Yes. We come out, survey the home, give you a written quote and do the job. You deal with us from the first call to the last shim.

We would not. Working under a home on jacks is dangerous, and lifting one point too far cracks drywall and racks door frames. Call us first and we will tell you what we find.

Lee County is HUD Wind Zone III, with a 110 mph design wind, and Lee County's permit guide asks for proof of Wind Zone III.

Lee County's guide lists a Manufactured/Mobile Home/RV permit for new installs, replacements and tie downs. Blocking and anchor details are submitted with it, and the inspections include one called 113 Tie Down. If you apply as the owner, the county asks for an affidavit naming the installer. Whether a relevel alone needs a permit is a question to put to the county.

Florida Rule 15C-1 calls for approved galvanised auger anchors set for the soil class in undisturbed or compacted soil, 180 square inch stabiliser plates set flush with the soil, diagonal frame ties no more than 5 feet 4 inches apart, longitudinal ties, and pier pads of at least 4 by 16 by 16 inches of solid concrete. Coral anchors do not meet Wind Zone II or III.

It can. In a FEMA flood zone, Lee County requires a mobile home that is placed, replaced or substantially improved to be elevated so the lowest floor is at base flood elevation plus one foot (the bottom of the frame in VE and Coastal A zones), and the elevation is verified by a registered surveyor after the home is set. Much of North Fort Myers by area is in a flood zone, and it varies from park to park, so tell us your zone before planning a big job.

After Ian the state surveyed three North Fort Myers parks in its Mobile Home Tie Down Program, and none of the homes observed had left their foundations. About 80% of the damage was carports and add-ons lifting off, and in about 30% of those the carport took part of the roof. The park with the most damage also had the most homes built before HUD standards.

North Fort Myers, Suncoast Estates, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Pine Island (Bokeelia and Matlacha) and Alva.