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DIRECTIONS AND POINT OF PLACEMENT Although we are going to discuss how to install your home in a couple chapters, it is still important that you have a handle on several items before you home pulls out.

REMOVAL OF FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS If you have already been living in the home and you will be moving it to a new location then you will also need to consider whether to move your furniture and other furnishings.

This book focuses on the costs and problems with moving a single-wide, since that is the most common type of mobile home move project. However, we need to discuss some of the additional concerns of moving a multi-section home, since they have some additional risks and problems.

This book is focused on moving your mobile home, but it is worthy to note that if you are moving an occupied dwelling you will also need to move the contents. While there are many different options for moving your mobile home contents, one of the worst ideas is just leaving them in the home and hoping they arrive in one piece.

PREPARING THE HOME ON THE EXTERIOR Remember that the home is going to have a lot of wind resistance on the road. Anything that might blow off will blow off at 50 miles per hour. So remove or secure all of the items that might be impacted.

REMOVAL OF SKIRTING Now here’s one you can do yourself, it you’re handy. Removing skirting can be literally done by kids - we’ve seen them do it - but normally not when they’re supposed to. The essential thing to remember on removal of skirting is to leave the track on the home alone (you can reuse it when you arrive at the new destination, as well as the track on the ground.

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ESSENTIAL HOME PREPARATION FOR TRANSPORT Just like preparing a surface for painting ensures a successful end product, so does the correct preparation of the home to be moved. If you do not use good planning, you will waste substantial funds in repairing unnecessary damage to your home.

THE MOVE The transporter will proceed with the home at a fairly low rate of speed for two reasons. First, it is dangerous hauling something this big, and he wants to keep control of this load. Secondly although he will probable have a truck behind him to warn other drivers of his enormous girth, he is equally concerned about areas of road that are too narrow to accommodate him, or two low to clear, such as a bridge.