Guides for East Texas mobile home owners
Practical explanations of why manufactured homes around Livingston and Lake Livingston move, and what a homeowner can check before calling anyone.
High Water Table and Pier Support Near Lake Livingston
Saturated soil under a footing pad carries less load. Near the lake that condition returns every year, and it is why lakeside homes move on a seasonal rhythm.
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Releveling is not a calendar job. It follows soil moisture, and in East Texas soil moisture swings hard between spring rain and late summer drought.
Read the guideOlder Mobile Homes: Decades on the Same Piers
Most older homes in Polk County are still on their original piers, shims and anchors. Nothing dramatic happened, and that is exactly the problem.
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