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My double wide has settled lately and the front door is difficult to open?

I also noticed that one of the Vertical seems covered with molding separately slightly. Also on the ceiling I can see areas that although not cracked or broken you can see where thee are seems underneath that seem to be about a foot wide that go cross ways(not long ways) over the trailer. Is this in need of leveling or is it just giving due to normal settling. I have my house for sale and this suddenly came up. What is the cost of a double wide to be leveled if needed>?

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1. Check your paper work from when you had the home set up to see if the installation was warranted. If so, you may have a claim where they would have to be the one to come check the leveling and possibly fix.
2. Normal. Just call any manufactured home service company and hire them to relevel. Where I am it's about $200.
3. All homes settle, but due to how most mobile homes are set up on their foundations, they tend to be more prone to movement. What you've failed to tell us, is the foundation type, how long your home has been sitting where it is at, and whether you noticed the problems after some severe weather or not. I used to charge about $200 to $300 to level a home, whether it was a single or double wide - you go through the same set up and process for either, and a double wide only takes a few minutes longer in most cases. Hehehe... I've some homes that were over 2 inches out of level. This is something that most homeowners could do themselves. I made my own water level, with a custom rig, to make set-ups faster, but any water level will do the trick. A typical water level will be accurate to within 1/8" over 100feet. We started by setting up the level to a reference point, and then I'd crawl around the support columns measuring the offset from level. By charting them, you can easily see where the home has settled, and where the frame may be flexed over a support column. A standard cylinder jack and some blocks are needed to raise the home where it is low.. I used a 12 ton jack most of the time. Once the frame is raised, adjust the shims, and move on to the next, checking each adjustment with the water level as you go. The key things to remember when working with a water level: Don't change your reference point. Don't let the volume of water change in the level (Don't spill or add water). A pair of us could easily re-level a double wide home in less than 2 hours from start to finish - for someone who's never done it before, plan on a little longer. Now - re-leveling a home will not make the seams disappear in the ceiling - the texture and/or seam has flexed/expanded and will stay that way, until repaired. The sticking doors/windows will probably be corrected by leveling the home. I could most likely walk through your home and tell you where it is out of level, hehe. Loose trim is a pretty common problem, and easily corrected with a pin nailer. These are all 'cosmetic' repairs - meaning there is nothing wrong structurally, they just need to be tweaked a bit. Anyone familiar with warranty work in the manufactured home industry could do all of this work for you in short order. I'd recommend contacting a local dealership to see who does their warranty service. If necessary, you can hire one crew to re-level, and another for the cosmetics. We handled it all in our service package, something not all crews can do. By the way, once the home is re-leveled, you need to check the anchors, and tighten them as needed. Good Luck