Mobile home bent outrigger frames

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Why?
What does any of this have to do with a Home Inspector?
Is this your personal home?
Report what you observed and move on.

And this is why this forum is funny to me🤷‍♂️

Have you ever come across anything that is interesting during an inspection? I know you have because you talk about it constantly on here. I found this interesting during an inspection. A structural defect that was caused by a contractor long ago (and has no visible change to the living space) seems very pertinent to a home inspection to me but maybe I don’t know anything

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Jeff, so I am clear . I contacted the installing contractor for a couple reasons. First because I want to know what damage they caused that may not be visible in its current state and how it was repaired. I also like to learn. It’s a thing one does when one doesn’t understand how damage can affect the home. I ask questions of the actual experts, in this case the installation contractor who does this every day and knows more than I do. This way when I come across it again I can speak from a place of knowledge.
Not all of us have infinite knowledge or are as perfect as others who seemingly do.

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Note the orientation of the floor framing. The exterior walls are set on the outriggers.

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Scott, great diagram. In this situation interestingly the joists actually are oriented across the unit in the other direction. Possibly because it may have been reframed after the original damage?

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Glad we can amuse you.

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No way they stripped the sub-structure down to the dirt and re-framed the thing.

I see plenty of M/H homes & designs, the joists can run any direction the plans call for.

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Me too. It s the predictability of one or two that can make it funny. I appreciate all the banter.

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Thank you. Good to know. I don’t see many. That’s one reason I reached out to the original installation contractor. Knowing is way more helpful than guessing for clients.

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I think you made the right call regarding the installation contractor. Interesting, thanks for sharing. Being a structural support I would think there might be movement, or sagging, of that corner. But you said there was none.

The attached garage foundation seems unusual. I would guess that the MH is not considered to be on a permanent foundation.

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