A soft or spongy spot in the floor
As our controlled response continues, most manufactured homes are decked in particleboard, which swells and loses its bond once it stays wet.
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Nationwide
Our property-protection team removes water and dries lightweight floors, walls, insulation, and underbelly materials commonly affected in mobile homes.
Signs to look for
With damage contained, if you notice any of these problems, call us before water has more time to spread into nearby materials.
As our controlled response continues, most manufactured homes are decked in particleboard, which swells and loses its bond once it stays wet.
To protect the property, panel walls are joined with battens over the seams instead of taped and painted like drywall.
As our controlled response continues, vinyl covered gypsum panel walls sit directly on the decking, so they wick water upward from the floor.
With damage contained, the seam where two sections join is the most common water entry point on a multi section home.
Before materials deteriorate further, older homes with low slope metal roofs pond water at seams, vents and the edges.
With damage contained, the furnace and water heater usually share one interior closet sitting directly on the decking.
What happens
Our property-protection team adjusts the work to what got wet, how far the water traveled, and which materials can be saved.
To protect the property, we note the home's age, whether it is a single wide or a double wide, and what the deck and the walls are actually made of.
Before materials deteriorate further, particleboard decking that has swelled or lost its bond does not come back, and drying it longer will not change that.
To protect the property, panel walls come apart at the battens and the bottom course, which lets us dry the wall cavity without wrecking the whole room.
Before materials deteriorate further, portable extractors and compact submersible pumps come through a 30 inch doorway and up a set of steps.
With damage contained, many manufactured homes run a 100 amp service, which limits how much drying equipment the home can actually carry.
As our controlled response continues, water that reaches an in floor supply duct sits there and gets blown through every room.
Talk with a restoration specialist
Describe the source, the impacted rooms, and when you first noticed the damage.
What to expect
As our controlled response continues, here is how we usually handle mobile home water damage near the United States.
With damage contained, tell us the approximate age, whether it is a single wide or double wide, and where the water is showing.
Your callTo protect the property, close the fixture valve, or the main at the lot pedestal if it is above ground and safe to reach.
+5 minutesBefore materials deteriorate further, keep people and heavy furniture off any soft area, because wet particleboard loses strength quickly.
+15 minutesBefore materials deteriorate further, we confirm the deck material, the wall panel type, the marriage line if there is one, and where the ducts run.
On arrivalBefore materials deteriorate further, water comes off hard flooring and out of carpet and padding, and contents get lifted and blocked.
First hours on siteWith damage contained, we tell you which decking sections, wall panels and cabinets are coming out and which are staying.
Same dayWith damage contained, equipment is placed and the amperage counted before anyone drives away, so your service is not overloaded overnight.
Before we leaveUnderstanding the cost
With damage contained, we explain the recommended work and price before you approve the job. With damage contained, these examples show what may change the estimate.
| Common situation | What the estimate may include | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| One room of a manufactured home, clean water, extraction plus three to four days of drying | To protect the property, national estimate. Before materials deteriorate further, a supply line or fixture caught quickly, with little or no decking replacement. | $900 to $2,500 |
| Most of a single wide affected, clean water | To protect the property, national estimate. Before materials deteriorate further, includes extraction, padding removal, wall panel bottom course work and five to seven days of equipment. | $3,000 to $8,000 |
| Double wide with several rooms and decking replacement | To protect the property, national estimate. With damage contained, water across the marriage line, two duct runs and significant decking and panel replacement. | $6,000 to $18,000 |
| Particleboard decking replacement, per square foot | With damage contained, national estimate for removing and replacing failed floor decking, before the finish flooring above it. | $3 to $10 |
| Wall panel replacement, per square foot | To protect the property, national estimate for vinyl covered gypsum panel sections including batten work. With damage contained, older patterns may not be matchable. | $2 to $6 |
| Manufactured home work priced by affected area, clean water | To protect the property, national estimate. To protect the property, handy once someone has measured the wet area and given you a number. | $3 to $7 per square foot |
| Belly wrap drained, wet insulation out, underbelly repair coordinated | National estimate. Priced and detailed on our under house water removal page, which owns that protection plan. | $800 to $3,500 |
| After hours or overnight dispatch charge | To protect the property, national estimate. With damage contained, one charge on the first visit, for nights, weekends and holidays. | $100 to $400 |
What the deck is made of
Before materials deteriorate further, particleboard decking that has swelled has to be replaced, and that is labor plus material plus flooring above it.
How much of the home is wet
To protect the property, pricing follows affected square footage.
Single section or multi section
To protect the property, a double wide is roughly twice the area and adds the marriage line as both a leak path and a drying boundary.
How clean the water was
To protect the property, supply line water is the least damaging case and saves the most material.
Wall panel count
To protect the property, panel replacement is priced by area and by how many batten lines have to be opened.
Duct involvement
As our controlled response continues, clearing and drying in floor ducts is straightforward.
Why timing matters
As our controlled response continues, water can keep moving into nearby materials even when the surface looks dry.
To protect the property, once the panel swells and its bond fails, it stays swollen and weak no matter how long you dry it.
As our controlled response continues, the vinyl film on these panels is effectively a vapor barrier on the room side, so moisture cannot escape toward the air you are drying.
With damage contained, small air volume means moisture saturates every room within hours, so there is no comfortable dry side to retreat to.
To protect the property, standing water inside a supply duct or the crossover duct gets pushed through the home each time the system runs.
Helpful service information
To protect the property, start with the short explanation. As our controlled response continues, open a card if you want a little more detail.
With damage contained, floors are typically decked in particleboard over relatively shallow floor joists, glued and stapled as a system.
Before materials deteriorate further, manufactured homes are built to the federal HUD Code, which produces a very different set of materials from a site built house.
As our controlled response continues, that film behaves like a vapor barrier on the room side, so moisture in the gypsum core cannot escape toward the dry air you are creating in the room.
With damage contained, the vinyl face on a panel wall is the detail that catches inexperienced crews. As our controlled response continues, that film behaves like a vapor barrier on the room side, so moisture in the gypsum core cannot escape toward the dry air you are creating in the room.
With damage contained, a single section home holds a fraction of the air a two story house does, so evaporating water pushes relative humidity up very quickly and evaporation then stalls.
With damage contained, air volume is the quiet variable in a home this size. With damage contained, a single section home holds a fraction of the air a two story house does, so evaporating water pushes relative humidity up very quickly and evaporation then stalls.
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Get a Quote: (844) 606-0362Common questions
As our controlled response continues, it depends entirely on the deck material. With damage contained, most manufactured homes use particleboard decking, and once it has swelled or lost its bond it does not recover, so those sections come out.
Before materials deteriorate further, as a national estimate, one wet room with a few days of drying commonly runs $900 to $2,500.
With damage contained, three reasons. Before materials deteriorate further, the decking is often particleboard rather than plywood, and the walls are vinyl faced gypsum panels joined with battens rather than taped drywall.
To protect the property, the bottom few inches are usually the problem, because panels sit on the deck and wick water upward.
With damage contained, that is a separate protection plan from the work inside your home, and our under house water removal page covers it in full.
To protect the property, extraction usually finishes in one to three hours. With damage contained, drying then takes about three to five days for a typical loss, sometimes less because there is less material.
To protect the property, yes, and it is one of the most commonly missed steps. To protect the property, supply ducts run inside the floor and the crossover duct links the sections on a double wide, so water sits in them and gets blown through the home.
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