How To Skirt A Manufactured Home Over 38″
How Do You Skirt A Manufactured Home on A Sloped Lot?
Pay attention if you got sloped lots for mobile homes. Moreover, you may know skirting manufactured homes on sloped lots can be a challenge. For almost 20 years we have been skirting manufactured homes across the United States. Sometimes, though, it can be a thought-provoking experience. Moreover, after reading this you’ll be closer to knowing how to skirt a manufactured home.
Being the manufacturer of DURASKIRT™, we are sometimes asked the question, “how high does your skirting panels reach?” Our answer is always, “as high as you need.” The reason we say that is because we have ways to accomplish almost any height.
Use DURASKIRT™ For Breaking Through the Ground
There has always been a demand for skirting to look like an extension of the home. But wood shouldn’t be in contact with the soil. Therefore, a hybrid solution assures that wood will stop short of the ground. Then uses DURASKIRT™, since it is made for ground burial.
How to skirt a manufactured home on sloped lots.
This achieves the site-built appearance for manufactured homes that are on sloped lots. Just imagine, no more rotting skirting and tremendous rodent prevention. We recommend at least a 6” distance between wood and the dirt. So, plan your siding step-downs accordingly.
How to Frame Step-Downs on Sloped Lots?
Using standard framing materials and siding to match, extend siding to form step-downs that conform to the slope. Remember to add paper under the siding to prevent moisture from entering the crawlspace. After the framing is installed under the homes’ exterior rim-joist brace it back to the I-beams. See Photo.
Things to Keep in Mind
- Framing lines up with house above.
- Siding matches brand and style.
Showing the siding and framing stepping down. Ready to install DURASKIRT™ concrete panels below.
- Lap siding reveals are same as home.
- Framing is braced adequately to support back-filling DURASKIRT™.
- Wood is no closer that 6” away from dirt.
- Use hot-dipped galvanized nails into siding.
Once all the framing is braced, papered and sided it’s time to add DURASKIRT™. We recommend digging DURASKIRT™ into the soils a minimum of 6” and back-filling with a coarse rock. This helps to prevent rodents from digging under the skirting.
Finally, your home will look like a site-built home from all appearances. Your friends and neighbors will be surprised to know it is in fact a manufactured home. Furthermore, if you haven’t begun your search for new mobile homes you may want to read our article “Finding The Best Mobile Home Brands.“
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