Pennsylvania Mobile Home Inspections

We can serve your manufactured home foundation certification needs in Pennsylvania counties. We have a wide range of manufactured home engineering services to meet your needs, whether you are a mortgage lender, real estate agent, contractor, or homeowner. Don’t hesitate to get your Pennsylvania manufactured home inspections!

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Why You Need an Inspection

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Inspection reports for generating engineering certificates turn around time is 5-7 days. Order an inspection to get a foundation certification as soon as possible.

A manufactured home foundation inspection requires a licensed engineer to determine how safe and up to requirements set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Established in 1976, these manufactured home standards apply to all aspects of construction for strength, durability, safety, and energy efficiency and periodically updates and evolves. For this reason, it is required to get a new inspection for the following:

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Buying A Home

When buying a home it’s a good rule of thumb to always get an inspection of the home you intend to purchase. Your bank or lender might require a foundation inspection of the manufactured home with a written report ensuring it is up to correct standards.

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Selling A Home

As a seller, you want to identify any necessary repairs as early as possible which could end up raising the overall value of the manufactured home. Purchase a structural certificate from us to get started today so you can put your manufactured home on the market tomorrow.

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New Construction

In order for lender approval, they must obtain a certificate from a licensed engineer. The certificate will state whether the manufactured home is in compliance with the manufactured home foundation requirements for your ideal foundation location.

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Refinancing

Lenders will require an updated foundation inspection for owners looking to refinance. Our certification letters by our licensed engineers will provide the refinance lender with confidence regarding your manufactured home.

Hayman Residential Engineering

Hayman Engineering Inc. is the first company to cater to the residential engineering needs of the housing industry on a nationwide basis. We have a national network of over 1,500 inspectors, hundreds of contractors and lenders to provide whatever service you need from engineering certifications for mortgage qualifications to repair damaged foundations.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

source: https://www.hud.gov/pennsylvania

Planning Considerations

HUD’s intent of monitoring planning considerations is to, in their words, ensure the adequacy of architectural planning aligns with a safe and healthful environment. This section of guidelines and regulations encompasses ceiling heights, every room must be at least 7 feet tall; exterior doors and windows, every manufactured home must have at least two separate doors to the outside world and each bedroom must have at least one window; privacy standards, bathrooms must have a lock device; interior passage/space, doors must open and allow access throughout the home; room requirements, at least one room must have at least 150 square feet of space; minimum room dimensions; toilet facilities, each bathroom must have a minimum width of 30 inches with a minimum clear space of 21 inches in front of each toilet; hallways and glass and glazed openings.

These are just the basics, but encompass much of what HUD is looking for in terms of the overall structure.

Fire Safety

The purpose of HUD’s fire safety regulations is to mandate reasonable fire safety for the occupants of the manufactured home by reducing hazards and providing measures for early fire hazard detection.

Fire safety requirements include regulating the use of combustible versus noncombustible materials and the inclusion of an adequate amount of working fire alarms throughout the property. Just like a traditional home, a manufactured home must meet the same fire safety standards.

Construction Requirements

Construction requirements for manufactured homes detail the minimum standards for materials, products, equipment, and workmanship needed to assure that the manufactured home will have the following:

– Structural strength and rigidity

– Protection against corrosion, decay, insects, and rodents

– Protection against wind

– Resistance to the natural elements

– Durability and economy of maintenance

Plumbing

Safety standards for manufactured home plumbing systems covers the plumbing materials, fixtures and equipment installed within or on manufactured homes. According to HUD, it is the intent of its plumbing safety standards to assure the use of water supply, drain, waste, and vent systems that permit satisfactory functioning and provide for health and safety under all conditions of normal use.

Transportation

To be approved by HUD, a manufactured home must stand stationary in a single dwelling after the initial construction and transportation of the establishment is complete. Of course, however, HUD recognizes that manufactured homes are built offsite from their final and permeant destination.

HUD’s safety standards for manufactured home transportation covers the general design requirements that ensure the structure of the manufactured home will fully withstand the potentially adverse effects of transportation shock and vibration without degradation of the integrated structure or of its parts.

According to HUD, the effect of highway transportation upon a manufactured home structure might result in incremental degradation of its designed performance in terms of providing a safe, healthy, and durable dwelling. Therefore, HUD requires the manufactured home to be designed to fully withstand such transportation forces during its intended life.

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