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Why Choose DURASKIRT™ Mobile Home Skirting Kits?

Why Choose DURASKIRT™ Mobile Home Skirting Kits?

May 24, 2023

 

If you’re a mobile or manufactured homeowner seeking options for mobile home skirting kits, know that DURASKIRT™ is a great choice. Many customers choose our kits, and here’s why: 

 

DURASKIRT™ mobile home skirting kits are durable, long-lasting, and doable. 

 

As one customer put it,

 

“It’s DURASKIRT™ and done.”

 

House skirting products have a tough job. 

 

They need to beat the elements, keep critters out, and uphold a home’s curb appeal. A lot of house skirting products don’t seem to last, however. In areas that receive a lot of rainfall or frequent intense weather, other products tend to last 10 to 15 years. DURASKIRT™ lasts longer. Our mobile home skirting kits have galvanized reinforcement and strong concrete that can withstand the elements and lasts.

 

DURASKIRT™ can do that job.

 

That being said, there are areas when extra precaution is needed. If the soil in your area contains high acidity, you’ll need to coat the cement to protect it better, since cement and acidity don’t get along. A layer of tar works really well for this application and will help the house skirting remain durable and long-lasting.

 

It’s not just about the product. It’s also about the service.

 

Aside from the quality of DURASKIRT™ house skirting, our company also offers excellent customer service. When a customer receives their kit, they’ll also be given

 

  • Access to instructional videos
  • Tutorials
  • Contact information to be able to speak with one of our staff

 

Even on a Saturday or Sunday, we are always available to answer questions and help customers through their house skirting project.

 

We want our customers to feel confident yet know that we are here for them when needed.

 

Having these resources make our product doable for our customers, at a time that works best for them.

 

DURASKIRT™ has been providing customers with house skirting kits for 20 years.

 

The combination of our durable, quality product and engaging customer service has earned the trust and satisfaction of many customers. We are here for you, too. If you would like to learn more about our product or to find out if DURASKIRT™ would be a good option for you, give us a call at (360)419-9909. We are available to answer any questions you might have and to help you get started on your own house skirting project.

 

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Are We Living A Set-Apart Life?

Are We Living A Set-Apart Life?

May 21, 2023

Maybe you have asked yourself Am I Living A Set-Apart Life? What does that even look like in our culture that encourages the pursuit of happiness? If you’re like many, you have found a continued happiness is not possible without God. Perhaps sadly, you have never experienced the happiness God has for you with a surrendered life?

Let’s Read in 1 Samuel

If you turn to your bible starting in 1 Samuel chapter four you will find a culture much like ours. The people had God in a box (Arc of the Covenant) and their neighbors idols on display in their homes trying to fit in with everyone. As you read on through the next chapters you’ll find it doesn’t work out well for them neither is it working out well for us today. We find in Samuel that God will always defend himself regardless where we stand with Him.

When the enemy captures the Arc of the Covenant we find the idol Dagon must fall in its presence. Every knee shall bow. More still, the land breaks out with mice and tumors begin appearing on the captors bodies. So, they decide to send the Arc back with peace offerings of mice and tumors made of precious gold. Listen, this is a ruse and we are to never take offerings from the enemy even though they seem to have given lip service, offerings, to our precious savior. It never ends well when we do.

Reading further when Israel received the Arc they were temporarily impressed by the enemies offerings and still unrepentant of their sins that caused its capture. Almost 60,000 people paid the price for their hardened hearts. How many in our culture are losing their lives for our own compromised lifestyles? How long will we keep God in a box and have similar lifestyles to the Celebrity Philistines? Do we look any different? Are we watching the same movies? Are we reading the same books? Are we talking about the same celebrities in similar fashions? Are we dressing the same? Do we have the same desires?

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Do we think that God won’t eventually begin to defend himself and clean up his people and his churches? We find the story here ends with a people throwing away their philistine idols, culture and living the set-apart life God desires for all of us. Where He feels right in protecting and blessing. My prayer is that this message will turn at least one wayward sheep back home. Moreover, I pray many will desire to go all in with their own relationship with Jesus.

A Plan for Redemption

If you are like me and need to examine the things you are allowing to take up your time and make an effort to ask God to show you what needs to be removed and what needs to be added. You can begin by saying this simple prayer…..

Jesus,

I am a sinner. I’ve done a lot that is wrong or evil. I cannot do anything good in my own power. I need your love and forgiveness. Lord, I am sorry for all the sin that I have committed in my life, and that I know I will commit in the future. I want to live my life for You, doing what is right, and pleasing to You. I need a Savior, because I can never pay the debt that my sin has incurred. Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross, and shedding your blood to pay the price for my sin. I accept that You did this for me, and I ask that You extend Your eternal grace to me. Lord, please transform my heart and my life in Your image, write my name in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and fill me with the Holy Spirit. I praise You for Your love, Your righteousness, and Your infinite mercy. Thank you for saving my soul.

Today, I desire to go all in with you, Jesus. I want that set-apart life that leads me to wholeness and real happiness. I desire peace beyond understanding as your word promises.

In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior,

Amen.

Now that you received Jesus and placed your faith in him it’s time to know that He has given you His authority. You are a son or daughter of the most high God! Begin using seeds, words, that build yourself and others up and expect them to bring the peace that is promised to the sons of God.

Now share the Good News!

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Concrete Skirting for Manufactured Homes

Concrete Skirting for Manufactured Homes

May 10, 2023

Skirting for Manufactured Homes Made to Look Site-Built

Considering community desires today, manufactured homes must be able to fit into residential neighborhoods. In order to accomplish this, the home essentially needs to look site-built. This is where concrete mobile home skirting is useful.

Most often, site-built homes have a poured-in-place perimeter foundation, stem wall, and footing. Calling this a perimeter foundation for a manufactured home is wrong. Just because it can support the weight of the home on the perimeter does not mean it is a foundation. In some ways, this can be detrimental as it is subject to weather and moisture, not to mention it gets in the way of properly securing the tie-downs. The better system is to support the structure under the home, tucked away from nature’s elements.

Manufactured homes are supported away from the perimeter of the home. This is a great design but leaves a distinctive space beneath the manufactured home. So, how do you take a great design still find a way to skirt match site-built structures?  Well, there are a couple of methods to accomplish this.

  1. The stem-wall foundation. The first method is pouring a stem-wall foundation, although entirely unnecessary, around the perimeter. This methodology is costly in requiring a manufactured home to be lifted over and set inside the wall. Although, sometimes the wall can be poured under the home after the setup. Obviously, many contractors loathe doing this for customers.
  2. Concrete mobile home skirting kits. Installing concrete mobile home skirting kits can give an appearance similar to a poured stem-wall foundation. However, Concrete mobile home skirting installation can be done without removing the manufactured home, thus making it much simpler.

DURASKIRT™ Mobile Home Skirting Kits

Consequently, the most popular method is using concrete skirting for manufactured homes like DURASKIRT™. The system consisting of concrete boards or panels set up around the perimeter is a genus. This system serves the following purposes:

  1. Guarding the underfloor with concrete.
  2. Site-built look.
  3. Meets FHA & VA loan requirements.
  4. A long-lasting skirting solution.
  5. Best for matching residential neighborhoods.

Two more reasons for choosing DURASKIRT™ concrete skirting for manufactured homes are simple installation and great customer support.

Who wouldn’t want their manufactured home to look site-built? You can, now, with DURASKIRT™ concrete mobile home skirting kits.

For more information please look around our website or contact us, today.

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What Is a Mobile Home vs. Manufactured Home vs. Modular Home vs. Park Home?

What Is a Mobile Home vs. Manufactured Home vs. Modular Home vs. Park Home?

Apr 26, 2023

Are there multiple terms for a mobile home?

Are they interchangeable? 

The quick answer is that there are differences, but let’s look at what those differences are so you know you are using the correct word.

Although each type of home shares similarities, each one is different in the way it is constructed or tied to a property. If you’ve been looking into house skirting, you might be wondering if it’s right for your kind of home. While differences exist, each of these types of homes benefits from mobile home underpinning.

 

Here are the key differences in each type of home.

Mobile Homes: Mobile homes originally had tires and were very much mobile. They could be moved from setting to setting and weren’t tied down to a piece of property. Over time, the industry changed to produce the manufactured home. People often refer to manufactured homes as “mobile homes,” but technically, if your home doesn’t have wheels, it’s not a mobile home. As for skirting, if you are moving your mobile home a lot, you probably can’t have and don’t need skirting.

Manufactured Homes: Manufactured homes do not have wheels and look like stick-built homes. They can be built on a cement slab or can be built on stilts. This adaptability provides two options for manufactured homes.

 

  1. They can be titled and sold as real estate with a piece of property.
  2. They can be left mobile – not built on a foundation – and not titled with a piece of property. The home could be relocated if desired.

They are mobile or permanent homes that, in regards to skirting, can benefit from mobile home skirting kits 16×80 or whatever size is appropriate for your manufactured home. 

Helpful Tip – Because of the confusion between the names, these kits are often referred to as mobile home skirting kits. So, if you see “mobile home skirting,” it will likely work with your manufactured home.

Modular Homes: Modular homes are similar to permanent manufactured homes in that they are often built on a cement slab or even a basement, and are titled with a piece of property. The way they differ is that modular homes are engineered in separate modules. Each unit, or module, is delivered to the building site where the home is put all together which gives some variety to how your module home is designed. If your module home is elevated off the ground, you should have skirting.

Park Homes: Park homes are different still, in that they are smaller dwellings that are built to a certain size that allows for municipalities not to have to inspect these homes. They are small enough to fit on a city lot in the backyard; for example, a mother-in-law or may live in a park home on the same lot as her child. The idea is that it provides another residence onsite, often just temporary. Though smaller and maybe only being used for a few years, park homes need skirting just like manufactured homes for the same reasons.

While each of these four types of homes has slight differences, all of them greatly benefit from manufactured home underpinning. If you’ve been searching for mobile home skirting kits 16×80, get in touch with DURASKIRT™. We are a house skirting company that can assist you with any questions or inquiries you might have, and we have house skirting kits for mobile, manufactured, modular, and park homes. Call us today at (360)419-9909.

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Apr 12, 2023

How Do You Skirt A Manufactured Home on A Sloped Lot?

If you have a sloped lot for your mobile home,  you may know that mobile home skirting installation 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.

Being the manufacturer of DURASKIRT™, we are sometimes asked the question, “How high do your mobile home 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 mobile home skirting to look like an extension of the home. This, however, is a problem for wood skirting as wood shouldn’t be in contact with the soil. This is not a problem for DURASKIRT™, since it is made for ground burial. A hybrid solution can also also solve the issue of a sloped lot.

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How to skirt a manufactured home on a sloped lot.

By using both DURASKIRT™ and wood, you can achieve 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.
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    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 for the mobile home skirting installation by adding DURASKIRT™. We recommend digging DURASKIRT™ into the soil a minimum of 6” and back-filling with a coarse rock. This helps to prevent rodents from digging under the mobile home skirting.

Finally, your home will look like a site-built home. 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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How to Install Mobile Home Skirting When Your Lot Is Not Level

How to Install Mobile Home Skirting When Your Lot Is Not Level

Mar 22, 2023

Building skirting on your manufactured home can be a challenge. More so, if your lot is out of level. You can see from these photos we have overcome this with DURASKIRT™ CMU panels. More still, mobile and manufactured home production has come a long way – homes are straighter, constructed faster, and their price tag is still significantly cheaper than that of a stick-built home. There are many positive aspects to manufactured homes; however, no home is perfect.

Even factory-built mobile homes can have imperfections which can result in the house not being perfectly square and having the absolutely correct angles. While this may not affect the overall structure of the home, it can make installing concrete board and other mobile home skirting a bit tricky. However, we’ve got some tips about how to install mobile home skirting when your house isn’t straight that will allow you to save money, prevent frustration, and have a good looking home when you’re done.

 

4 Tips For Installing Skirting When Your Lot Is Not Level

 

  • Take Your Time – When your house isn’t straight, you’ll have to devote a bit more time and attention to the installation of the concrete board or other house skirting. You could, simply, install it quickly, following the lines of the house as best you can, but what could result is a crooked-looking DIY job. Your home’s appearance is important and this is one area that is worth taking the time to get right or every time you pull up to your home, you’ll be disappointed.

 

  • Make Sure You Have the Right Tools – Depending on the skirting you use, there will be specific tools you need for the installation. However, because you will need to make adjustments to your skirting to form it to the imperfections of your house, you will need the tools to properly measure, note imperfections, and cut or form the skirting.

 

  • Level the Ground – Check the soil, gravel, or dirt around the perimeter of the home to ensure that it’s level. You’ll want the home skirting to fit evenly all the way around the home, so make sure the earth is level, first. One way to quickly do this is to measure 31 inches on your shovel and mark it with a piece of tape. Then go around the perimeter of the home. You can easily measure and see where some soil may need to be dug away or leveled better.

 

  • Find Balance Between the Skirting and the Siding – In order to get the job done well, you will probably have to do a little work on the siding of the house just above the house skirting as well as feather in the skirting to the home to try and make it as straight as possible. Completing the job in the best way means finding a happy medium between the siding and the skirting. Using some judgement and finesse, the job can be done well. Try to split the difference and make sure your lines are straight and smooth.

 

The same principle applies when you’re considering what to put around bottom of shed buildings or other outdoor buildings that may need some house skirting. If the building isn’t quite straight or square, level the ground, work the house skirting around slowly, and make sure to use the proper tools.

House skirting is an important component for manufactured and mobile homes, but it’s also a visual component. Keeping the home’s lines as straight as possible greatly increases curb appeal and keeps your home’s appearance neat and attractive. It will be worth the extra time to complete the job well.

For more information about cement board or what to put around bottom of shed buildings or homes, get in touch with DURASKIRT™ at (360)419-9909. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you have and get you started on your house skirting project.

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Mar 8, 2023

Skirting Panels for Mobile Homes — How Exactly Do They Work?

If you’re about to buy a mobile home, you’ve undoubtedly heard of (CMU) skirting panels, but how exactly do they work? And what makes skirting panels for mobile homes or shed skirting so important?

Mobile home skirting kits cover up the crawl space underneath your home

skirting panels for mobile homes

DURASKIRT™ concrete skirting panels for mobile homes are easily installed.

(CMU) Skirting panels are not simply to make your home more fashionable. Skirting panels will provide some very important functional benefits for your mobile home.

Keep Critters Out – Your home is a shelter, but you want it to be your shelter, not a shelter for various animals. By adding skirting panels, critters like raccoons, rats, and snakes won’t be able to set up their home underneath your home. This is true for sheds, too. Shed skirting can keep animals from nesting or relieving themselves under your shed.

Help To Stabilize the Temperature Inside Your Mobile Home – All homes lose a little bit of losing a bit of their temperature throughout the day, including through the floor. Skirting panels enclose the crawl space under your home, thus helping to insulate your home and maintain the temperature. This will help to keep the inside of your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.

Protect Against Back-Fill – Before your home can be placed on its lot, the ground must be excavated. Meaning, that some of the dirt must be scooped out so that your home will be level. However, that dirt isn’t just carted away.  Instead, it’s piled up evenly around your home which is called back-filling.

Strong skirting panels, such as DURASKIRT™, hold back-fill. Moreover, their back-fill bracing strength is what makes a manufactured home look like a site-built home.

Mobile home skirting needs to be vented very carefully

Let’s say we attach some solid, concrete board, skirting panels to the bottom of your mobile home. What would you think will begin happening? You would wind up with a space that’s warm and muggy. Why? The moisture that naturally rises out of the soil ends up being trapped underneath your home.

Over time, all that stale, moist air will create dangerous mold and cause the underside of your home to rot. Talk about a major mess! That’s why skirting panels must come with special vents that are specifically designed to give the underside of your home the airflow it needs without giving critters a space to wiggle through.  A good skirting manufacturer will also space those vents very carefully so that the underside gets good cross-ventilating.

Some venting systems can allow water to get into the crawl space under your home. Just like the moisture from the ground can cause mold or rot, if the venting system for your home allows water in, it can allow for sitting pools of water as well as humidity and cause great damage to your home.

Mobile home skirting needs to use quality materials

Even though you can find skirting panels in a variety of materials and finishes, they’re not created equally. Some last longer than others and some are more easily chewed, scratched, or broken by animals.  Some provide good venting and others do not. DURASKIRT™ Concrete Board provides strong, long-lasting protection, and our special vent well technology will keep your crawl space well vented and help to prevent water from collecting under your home.

Contact us today to find out more or order your mobile home siding.

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MAKE DURASKIRT™ INDUSTRY STANDARD

MAKE DURASKIRT™ INDUSTRY STANDARD

Feb 28, 2023

DURASKIRT™ November 06, 2022 – Price Drop Story – MAKE DURASKIRT™ INDUSTRY STANDARD!

The DURASKIRT™ price drop happened when a large developer approached me asking if we can do better with our pricing. If so, they would be awarding us with 500 plus homes over a two year period. This inspired me to test a method I have been wanting to try in production for years Making DURASKIRT™ Industry Standard. So, we tried it and it succeeded better than expected. Unfortunately the developer backed out before I had our volume pricing fully calculated thus, leaving me with hundreds of thousands in extra inventory. Therefore, I had a problem. But, a good problem, that is, for you.

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Make DURASKIRT™ Industry Standard

We now had our hard numbers for volume pricing and plenty of product in stock. Fortunately, for our retail customers, we needed to sell off the extra inventory to pay off our suppliers. Thus, we did a huge price reduction. Personally, I would rather sell to the public a great product at a more than fair price. Besides, we have the best service in our industry and I am pretty sure we are on our way to making DURASKIRT™ Industry Standard skirting product in the United States.

Here Is What Our Advertisement Said….

11/06/2022 Note from owner/inventor about Higher Volume Price Drop:

“When I invented this American-Made skirting product the words “Industry Standard” came to mind. Thank all of my customers over the past 23 years for pushing me toward my goal. I know price has always been a factor but quality has always been number one. We’re pleased to announce with the help of our new manufacturing facility and largely to our employees we are announcing a price drop of approximately 15%. I will continue to push towards the goal of DURASKIRT™ one day being known as the “Industry Standard” product for skirting your manufactured home.”


PRICE DROP MESSAGE 1/14/2023 | HELP MAKE DURASKIRT™ INDUSTRY STANDARD!

We announced the 20%  added discount late last year. The message said, “To Add: As a result of being overzealous we accidently made too much DURASKIRT™ and need your help clearing some inventory. We made too many 30″ and 37” (CMU) panels so enjoy this short time 20% off discount.” We are now sold out of this stock but we decided to keep our overzealous workers producing. As long as we keep selling kits at this rate why stop the sale? Keep buying and we will keep producing!

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FoundationWorks System

FoundationWorks System

Feb 25, 2023

Concrete Slabs and Runners Are Notorious for Failures

Solution?

Gravel Pad With FoundationWorks System vs Concrete Slab or Runners

The FoundationWorks system is designed and engineered for a gravel pad allowing for seismic absorption & lateral friction. Also, this system provides other benefits  like increasing the weight displacement. I will expand more about these awesome advantages below. However, they are why I prefer a gravel pad to a concrete slab.

Load Bearing Path Through 6″ Concrete Slab

Let me explain what a load bearing path means. A load bearing path from the home is on a 45-degree angle through a concrete slab so the effective footing area of a 6″ slab under each pier is approximately 18″ x 18″.  Meaning the entire slab does not provide additional footing or load bearing for the home (see any blocking diagrams in all factory set-up manuals). 

FoundationWorks PSC’s Provide Stronger Load Bearing Path

The load path for the FoundationWorks stanchions or PSC’s is about 12 degrees to grade with approximately 6.3 square feet of effective footing area per stanchion, which substantially increases the total footing area and weight displacement for the home compared to a typical setup on a concrete slab.

Building A Gravel Pad for FoundationWorks PSC’s

Earthquake Resistant Bracing System

FoundationWorks System is considered a E.R.B.S. Earthquake Resistant Bracing System.

  • Start with excavating and removing the organic layer of soil down to load bearing soil. Remember, it is all about pounds per square foot over the bearing soil. Therefore, the more effective footing area over the bearing soil the better (think logger boots vs. high heel shoes).

Think Logger Boots vs. High Heel Shoes

Consider A Typical 27′ x 66′ Manufactured Home

  • Assuming this jurisdiction considers bearing soil to have a value of 1500 pounds per square foot.  Then, the standard blocking (CMU block piers) will be supporting about 180 square feet of footing.
  • Adding the FoundationWorks system to the equation you get an additional 100 square feet of footing capacity from their installation. Thus, your pounds per square foot capacity for the home itself (dead load) on the home pad will be around 270 to 300 PSF. Finally, leaving you plenty of room for added snow load and live load (meaning you and your stuff).
  • At last doing the math. Your home will weigh about 80,000 pounds, so dividing by 280 square feet of footing is about 285 psf. (Total footing area – Blocking and FoundationWorks System).

 

Comparing Gravel Pad w/ FoundationWorks vs Concrete Slab

Concrete Slab

If a concrete slab cracks and settles, there is no adjustment or easy remedy to fix that.  Additionally, because the soil under a slab tends to be moist and significantly cooler than on top of the slab, and a jurisdiction most likely will not allow expansion joints in a foundation mono slab, there is a better than even chance that the slab will crack.  If you choose to do a slab, be sure to excavate to bearing soil and then install and compact structural fill with a crushed gravel cap (5/8″ minus) in not more than 6″ lifts with 95% compaction. Testing is simple.

A hand penetrometer can be used to determine compaction.  If the jurisdiction requires compaction certification, you can use a lab such as Geo-test Inc. to come out and shoot it.  if you end up filling more than 12″, the jurisdiction may want a compaction test by a lab.  The lab will want a “proctor” (test for moisture and density) of your fill material so just have a 5-gallon bucket of it available for them.  Sometimes, a gravel pit will have proctor info on hand for their material.

FoundationWorks Stanchions PSC’s On Compacted Gravel

The FoundationWorks stanchions  or PSC’s are adjustable.  The greatest reason for using this system is that most jurisdictions will require compaction testing. Therefore, building a road under your home makes the most sense.  Especially if you have witnessed like I have slab after slab failing because they lacked compaction under the slab. This costs homeowners thousands of dollars in future repair costs. Many times more that the home itself.

 

Factory Setup Manuals

The factory set up manual and the jurisdiction will require a 6-mil black poly vapor barrier over the slab and that somewhat negates the ability to roll on a creeper under the home.  A home set on a compacted gravel pad also is required to have the same poly vapor barrier over the pad.  Under the home is never a fun place to be but I would say that crawling on visqueen over a concrete slab or crawling on poly over a compacted gravel pad is similar on the fun meter.

Pit-Set (Home Set Down Into Ground)

In some jurisdiction, your home will be pit set with the top of pad about 18″ below the surrounding grade to prevent frost intrusion (heaving).  Concrete slabs have a propensity for wicking moisture from the ground beneath the slab that can accumulate on top of the slab and under the vapor barrier – sometimes causing puddling.  While, gravel pads dissipate or shed water and are tied into outside drainage.

PSC stanchions have enough vertical load capacity to hold the entire home even if the intermittent CMU block piers all cracked and failed during an earthquake.

Superior Earthquake Resistance

Cracked Mobile Home Slab

Slabs commonly crack due to builders placing them on uncompact soils costing thousands $$$ in repairs.

Fact, seismic energy (earthquake) impacts rigid structures following the structural supporting and framing members of the home. I liken it to electricity traveling through a wire.  Thus, strapping a home to a solid concrete slab with tie-downs is extremely rigid.  Therefore, there is very little energy absorption or flexibility.

The FoundationWorks Differences

Best of all, The FoundationWorks stanchions have a positive connection to the frame (bolted clamp) and fastened independently. Especially too with their attached (bolted) reinforced footings allowing some movement and individual energy absorption during an earthquake.  Also, the 16 FoundationWorks stanchions required for this home have enough vertical load capacity to hold the entire home. Surprisingly, even if the intermittent CMU block piers all crack and fail during an earthquake you will be safe.

Where To Buy?

You can purchase the FoundationWorks System from MH SERVICE & SUPPLY, LLC. Either call 360-419-9909 or go to https://mhserviceandsupply.com/earthquake-resistant-bracing-systems-e-r-b-s/

70 x 7

70 x 7

Feb 23, 2023

How often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?

Matthew 18:21-22 in the new King James version of the Bible reads: Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.” (70 x 7)

For me, possibly for you too, this verse has been both difficult and easy. Difficult because of my resistance and easy due to my obedience. In 2018, before the COVID outbreak, God spoke to me to get ready, lose weight, get in shape and prepare. I didn’t know what that meant but I did exactly what He told me. I lost over 40 lbs. walking nearly 10 miles a day at age 55. Then, in 2019 He called me to volunteer to go on a missionary outreach to Ukraine.

We Cannot Have A Relationship With Jesus Without Forgiving Others

The message He wanted me to bring was about forgiveness. You see, this message was very difficult in my younger years as many times I was taken advantage or for granted losing both time and money. In all this, God taught me to forgive because more than money He knew I valued Him more. You see, I have dreams almost every night of my life and visions during the day. When I hold my forgiveness the dreams and visions stop. Therefore, my window to God stops and creates a vast void that cannot be filled. First, let me explain what God taught me.

Habitual Forgiveness

So, one day after experiencing this long time in the desert without dreams or visions I asked God why I all of a sudden lost connection. His answer was simple, you need to forgive. Forgive I asked? Yes, forgive the way I stated through my son Jesus in Mathew 18:21-22. He went on. When you learn to forgive simply keep doing it making forgiveness a habit. Become a habitual forgiver like me.

Think about it when you do something 70 x 7 it forms a permanent habit and you get really good at it. Forgiveness must become a habit. Living this way, you will always be walking with me. In Matthew 6:15 the NLT says, “But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Clearly, learning to forgive is one of the most important things we need to follow Jesus. Without it we don’t have a relationship.

Ukraine Message 2019

Getting back to my mission to Ukraine. God told me go and teach them what I taught you about forgiveness. I did exactly this in every setting I had an opportunity to share. Obviously, with the war breaking out this message is vital. I witnessed many souls come forward and want this because they, like me, desired a relationship with God void of hinderances. Perhaps, this is something you need to do as well? If so, God has a plan.

A Plan for Redemption

If you are like I was and need to examine the relationships around you. Find if you too need to forgive someone. Then, say this simple prayer…..

Jesus,

I am a sinner. I’ve done a lot that is wrong or evil. I cannot do anything good in my own power. I need your love and forgiveness. Lord, I am sorry for all the sin that I have committed in my life, and that I know I will commit in the future. I want to live my life for You, doing what is right, and pleasing to You. I need a Savior, because I can never pay the debt that my sin has incurred. Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross, and shedding your blood to pay the price for my sin. I accept that You did this for me, and I ask that You extend Your eternal grace to me. Lord, please transform my heart and my life in Your image, write my name in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and fill me with the Holy Spirit. I praise You for Your love, Your righteousness, and Your infinite mercy. Thank you for saving my soul.

In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior,

Amen.

Now that you received Jesus and placed your faith in him it’s time to know that He has given you His authority. You are a son or daughter of the most high God! Begin using seeds, words, that build yourself and others up and expect them to bring the peace that is promised to the sons of God.

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