Edinburg Mobile Home Leveling About Edinburg Mobile Home Leveling
Edinburg Mobile Home Leveling is a local service for manufactured home owners and pier-and-beam homeowners across Hidalgo County: releveling, pier and pad repair, tie-downs, vapor barriers, skirting, and pre-sale inspections. We publish typical prices, insist that every home be surveyed before it is quoted, and tell you the truth about what the ground under your home is doing.
What we are
We work a trade that mostly runs on word of mouth in the parks and colonias. Texas requires anyone doing manufactured home installation work to hold an installer license under Chapter 1201 of the Texas Occupations Code, issued by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, and to post the $25,000 security the statute requires. Liability insurance is a separate thing to ask for. We do not print license numbers on a website, and we do not claim a license as ours. When we come to your home, you are welcome to ask for the installer license and check it on the department’s MHweb lookup before anything gets lifted. The installer license page shows how.
Pier-and-beam house leveling on site-built houses is a different trade, foundation work rather than manufactured housing installation, so the TDHCA license does not apply to it; ask for proof of insurance instead.
We are based around Edinburg and cover McAllen, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Donna, Mission, and Weslaco, plus the unincorporated county in between.
How a job runs
You tell us what you are seeing. A door that stopped latching, a slope in the hallway, a marriage-line gap, a strap you can wiggle by hand, a park manager or lender asking for a compliance letter. The more specific the better, but “the floor feels wrong” is enough to start.
Our crew surveys the home for free. Skirting access panels come off, we crawl the full length of the frame, and every pier gets shot with a water level off a datum point. That produces a pier-by-pier map of how far each one has dropped or heaved. While under there they check pads and caps for crushing, shim stacks for rot, the underbelly for tears, and every anchor strap for tension and corrosion. The whole survey takes under an hour on most homes.
You get a written price at the home. The number comes from the map, not from a guess in the driveway. It shows what is a reshim, what is a rebuild, what the straps need, and what can honestly wait. The pricing page lists every published range, and the quote should land inside them unless the survey turns up something unusual, in which case we explain why in writing.
Most homes take a day. Twenty-ton hydraulic jacks on solid cribbing, small lifts worked across the frame, blocks and caps replaced where needed, hardwood shims driven tight in pairs from both sides of the beam, and the whole frame re-shot before the crew closes the skirting. Strap re-tension belongs in every relevel.
What you will not find here
No invented reviews, founding year, or staff roster on this page. And some things no crew should do: shim over a pier that needs a rebuild, or stack wood past the one-inch shim and four-inch total that the Texas installation standard allows. Nobody should tell you a relevel is a permanent fix on Valley clay, because it is not; homes on the Harlingen and Mercedes clays south of Business 83 heave in a wet September and drop through a dry summer, and a good crew will point at the AC condensate line ponding beside your piers rather than pretend one visit lasts forever. Do not let an unlicensed handyman with a bottle jack under a manufactured home, because Texas law requires a licensed installer for that work and the too-tall shim stacks and scrap-lumber caps those jobs leave behind have to be undone later.
Why we publish prices
Most operators in this trade quote from the driveway and keep the number to themselves until then. The owner of a 1990s singlewide in a park off Business 83 deserves to know before anyone shows up that a relevel runs $450 to $800, that a pier rebuild is $150 to $400 a pier, that a pier-and-beam house relevel is $1,500 to $4,500, and that a pre-sale inspection costs $150 to $350 and is usually credited against the work it finds. Published prices keep everyone honest and let you compare bids on something other than a handshake.
Start with the free level check
If something in the house has changed and you suspect the piers, request the level check. Our crew comes out, shoots the frame, and writes the price while the readings are fresh. The FAQ answers the most common questions, and the home page explains why Hidalgo County homes move the way they do.