Only a nitwit would think a cheap ,wooden frame building would survive being rolled over…saw a teamster in a hurry one morning ,jack knife a trailer and roll it into an Airstream…both crushed and totaled…
When I was a kid there was a vacant lot across the street. Someone came in and built a big garage there, but didn’t frame up the roof; it was just open on top. Then one day a crane showed up, followed by two halves of a manufactured home. The crane lifted up each half, setting it on the garage walls. By the end of the day there was a manufactured home garage apartment there, and as far as I know it’s still there today.
I'm happy the algorithm decided to show me this video. I've both built manufactured homes and buildings as well as worked on a job where I was a part of putting one on a basement, I don't get the hate though. The buildings I built were superior to site-built homes of the same price point. Everything must be built to the same codes as site built only, we did it inside on an assembly line. Different departments meant everyone was well trained at their particular task and there was no way one could half ass something then pack up their tools and disappear, if you did something wrong, the next person would quickly find out. Maybe all the hate comes from how cheap it becomes to build a home when tradesmen are no longer required to do a job that a college kid can be trained to do for a fraction of the price and time. I will agree that this only applies to modern (last 3 to 4 decades) structures, I've seen some older structures that I wouldn't even work in that were a wind storms fodder.
@@eligebrown8998it’s not a trailer. It a real house that has been built in a factory under controlled conditions and shipped to the site. Arguably better than many houses built on site.
Double wides are notoriously known for needing extra foundational inspections and re-leveling. The added basement idea here is really cool. Great job guys!
You should call it Roll onto instead roll over ! I was waiting for the mobile home to do some damage or something. but everything went just fine. Good job there boys !
Nice work and very interesting to watch. Don't understand why so many are negative about using a prefab home, there's nothing wrong with them and they're cheaper then a custom build. You can do whatever you want on the outside with a porch, deck, patio and landscape and most of these trolls wouldn't even know what it was if they drove by it. Our family cottage was one of these and we went from a chunk of land to a turnkey home in a couple months, can't say that about a stick build.....cheers.
I worked at a prefab facility….they are nearly the same as a stick built nowadays…not like before…. If you put a foundation under a new modular home it is considered a stick built
Hey Jason! Interesting video and great content. This video is exactly what was promised in the title. I always find it incredible when I've seen double wides like this moved in one piece. You guys have to definitely know what you are doing when setting homes over basements like that. You guys are putting in way more work than the homes I get moved here in Texas and Florida. I can't even imagine all of the lessons you've learned and homes you've set. I was blown away when you told me you set double wides yourself. Be careful out there! Keep up the great work and keep making these videos.
Access hole in closet is normally put in before rolling house over. Did lots of these over the course of my career in Alaska. And yes we put single wides, doubles and triples on foundations
In Idaho, I had a double wide Marlette set on a foundation tall enough that I could walk upright under to service the underside about six foot, six inches. The benefit was creating a "cold" storage area. The unit had a pre designated area for a stairway, I made an access hatch to the underground area.
I was in this business about 20 yrs ago and we did several like this for people who were already living in the house that was just set on piers or a slab.instead of taking it apart we would just roll it to the side and temporarily reblock it so the customer could still live in it while their new crawl space or basement was installed then we would put it back on the foundation
When I first came across this , I thought it was one of those Effed up "things go wrong" on a construction site and it literally rolled over on it's side kinda deals...
An incredible feat of modern engineering and planning. My mind is bottled by the ingenuity and skill of these wizards. A basement! Just mistyfying. Where can I donate?
... I think this basement, with its I-beams, is just a fantastic way to set up manufactured homes ! ... Absolutely blew my mind ! 🤔 ... Who ever devised, and refined this setup, deserves an 🏆 'Official At-a-Boy award' 🏆
I have installed Double wide, and Triple wide, mobile homes all across British Columbia, Canada, and on isolated villages, such as Kitkatla, and Hartley Bay. They are very easy to install and set up. Actually the way we built them, when inside you would not know, they are double or triple wides.
In the states mobiles are built to state standards, many (especially snow belt) are built to the same standards as stick built. Other states such as Florida and Arizona the standards are very lax , I lived in both, and the homes are sub par. Just saying look b4 you judge.
This has to be the most incredible video I'll watch this year. To think people sat down and figured out how to do something like this and actually make it work boggles my mind.
Pretty smart system for moving the house into place. There will be some minor repairs ro make, but it looks like a foos job. I'd like to see how it was finished up in prep for occupancy.
That's way cool. My home is a double wide sits ground level but only a small crawlspace underneath. Anybody who knocks mobile homes nine is paid for as well as the land the property tax is lower than a standard house. As I age I can remodel it ( myself ) to suit my needs.
Why would they not put a secure ceiling on there first here in tornado alley where I live tornados will rip that right off there and wrap it around a tree will everything and everybody in it leaving that basement exposed.
Used to push them on with a bulldozer and a cushion plank to minimize damage. Usually we'd do the big one's in two halves. Nice if the excavation contractor graded the side pads flat. We did our own, so they were always flat on all sides. Crane setting was way more expensive.
Dod the owners need to take everything out of the bouse to lessen the weight? What items had to be tied down? What was the final headroom in the basement? Is that a 24' x 60' trailer?
A LOT of comments showing that many guys have ZERO idea of cost and build quality of todays manufactured homes. They cost and are built SIMILAR almost to most typical site built basic ranch houses. They are NOT build like they were in the 60s and 70s. They are not low cost nor cheap. I have toured through several a few months ago and quite impressive.
Once that home is put on a foundation, and property (land) it will sell just as well as any other home, many times the counters and floors can be higher quality. What made mobile homes unattractive to most people is having a landlord in a mobile home park, danger of it not being attached to a foundation and being property and not realstate Once those are eliminated and it was made by a reputable company you will probably find it selling as well. They have modular (prefab) homes put in site and they sell well. Beside it probably is not about resell and more about having a safe home. Do some research! Modern manufactured homes are extremely different from mobile homes built prior to 1976, both in terms of construction and design. Manufactured homes are constructed using quality materials inside climate-controlled building facilities and according to the HUD Code. They also typically come in three sizes - single, double and triple section - and can range from under 1,000 sq. ft. to over 2,000. When it comes to comparing manufactured and modular homes, another factor that can set them apart is the type of foundation typically used for each.
I was a home builder for 40 years, and now (unfortunately) live in a double wide. There is literally NO comparison between the quality of the two. I don't have time to list all the downsides of modular homes. Good luck finding one with a brick veneer, and if you do, good luck with the price.@@Sea-cucumber1151
@@david9783 Why would anyone want a brick veneer? I never got that. If you want a brick house, buy bricks. Modulars are comparable to "standard" stick built. If you are just having a basic low cost stick home built then its pretty much the same quality. If you are making a fancy house (pretending is brick or not) then no, the modulars are not the same. I had a low cost builder make me a small 2/1 with a garage for about $75K all in -- its quality is pretty similar to a $50K manufactured home. Add land and dirt work and the MFG would end up a little more expensive but quite a bit bigger. But you can't have an enclosed garage, which is one trade off. The other is many towns won't allow them because they are too big for the roads. But the city changed code recently to allow ADUs - which are the "tiny home" version of modular. And just as expensive or moreso. The main issue is they cannot be leased, so nobody builds them.
I was quoted 5k additional from the dealer to install a new doublewide on a basement using a crane. Does that sound right? This is installation only not including pouring the basement.
Well, if you had to make the crane payments, I think you'd agree that $5K is reasonable. Keep in mind that two or three years ago, the price would have been half that.
$5000 to put that thing on the basement actually sounds pretty cheap. It’s not like there’s a whole bunch of people out there doing this type of work that you can get lots of quotes from there’s pretty much no other alternative and if there is, want it’s probably more expensive
✋🏻. I watched the whole video and kept wondering where is the door for the workers to get out? Or is this like the Egyptian tombs where the works get trapped after the work is done lol. I’d also like to know how does the owner get into the basement, I do not believe you could cut into the bottom of the home due to structure reasons?
I can answer that. We did this very thing with our mobile home, though ours was a single-wide. There's probably a bilco door at the one end of the basement which was off-camera, basically it's an alcove built into the one end of the basement with stairs and one of those cellar doors you see in older homes. Once the house was rolled onto the basement, a hole was cut in the floor somewhere in the home (we put ours in the kitchen near where one of the back doors would be) and stairs would be built that go down into the basement.
If you look at the last few seconds of the video, you can see the exit door opening on the right. At 2 minutes into the vid (when mounting the rails) you can see a "bump out" on the mobile where the rear door would be. It seems to be over the basement door. As a guess, they will build stairs down from there covered by an addition?
There are a lot of modular and mobile homes now a days being built with a area inside them already setup for stairs. They usually have a banister set up along side where the opening is gonna be in the floor so someone doesn't fall in.
I am buying a manufactured home from a friend. Currently it is not on a basement, just pillars. I am moving it to a new location and want to put a basement under it. I have been told that a basement would be almost impossible and that they can not move it in one piece. I could really use some advice and help on how to make this happen.
It can be moved in 1 or 2 pieces. Moving it as one really depends on obstacles bridges, power lines, trees, driveways, budget, etc. What I've found to be the most critical is a confident concrete guy. He must measure from outside rim joist to outside rim joist, length and width Preferably before the home is separated, if possible. Hope this helps.
This is awesome, I currently have a manufactured home 4 br 2 bath on Brick foundation but I want to add a basement. Is it possible to move off the brick foundation to add basement?
If you are looking in to manufactured homes, in other words mobile home, check to see what the builder uses for sub flooring. Saw dust and glue are not acceptable. My wife and I learned this the hard way. ANY moisture exposure and you will be replacing flooring. Plan ahead and pay for better quality up front and it will save you down the road.
The sheeting they use is called particle board and you are right it does not like water. That stuff actually works almost like a sponge and soaks the water up and it swells and disintegrates. This is what they use to build these, i don't know first hand if you can pay extra for plywood or at least osb board or not. But it could be an option if not then you may want to stick build.
Usually modular Homes are the ones taken off their frames and placed on a permanent foundation. Poor choice of words used when describing the slide over onto the foundation with a basement.
@@veronicaroach3667 The only guys who can cut a hole in the floor are the guys trapped under the mobile home - and they don't have their tools with them!
Kansas is never a go place for a M/H over anything. I had a friend in Ks. In a regular house. The Tornado alert radio alarmed the same time his roof went away.
@@iguanapete3809 I grew up in central Texas in a MH until I was 9, we saw funnels way in the distance, never anything close up. I never understood why my sister always freeked out and made us all go to the barn and into the well pump basement. Then I did clean up in April of 1979 at the Red River Valley outbreak. I called my sister and thanked her.
There are different grades of mobile homes. Some have particular board sub flooring, 3/8 inch roll paper sheetrock and stripping. I call these “10 year mobile homes”. Some have 1/2 inch OSB sub flooring with both roll paper and painted sheet rock and stripping. I call these 15 years mobile homes. Some have 1/2 inch plywood sub flooring, painted 1/2 sheetrock and stripping. These are 20 years mobile homes. Then there are some with with 3/4 plywood sub floors, 16 inch center 2x6 exterior studded walls with 16 inch center 2x4 studded walls. Mudded and painted 5/8 sheet rock walls with crown molding, base board with toe kick. I call these a home. You can actually request and have these taken off of the steel framing, crane lifted and sat on a concrete foundation like a modular home. Both Clayton and Champion make every one of these grades of mobile homes. The last of these homes can last you a lifetime and cost well over $100,000. Their countertops look like solid surface countertops but they’re actually laminate. Beautiful homes but still not as good as a site built house.
The problem is there is a stigma attached to the whole idea of living in a 'mobile' - therefore if it looks like it is a 'mobile' you will be considered to be living in one regardless how well it is built. Before I bought my first house I looked at just about every cheaper alternative to a normal home that I could possible afford - almost bought a mobile on an acre because of the great land, then realised the likely limited timeframe for the not-considered-permanent home - so I resisted that & went for a very small 'real' house which needed work. Much the better choice since a few fixes & some decorating changed its' status easily !
@@veronicaroach3667 it’s actually not a problem and some people see no stigma of living in a mobile home. My wife and I raised our children in a double wide. Not everyone has the mindset that you’re speaking of. We lived in the county while raising our children but moved to the city limits about three years ago. We now own this small house but still own the mobile home and another one that is next door to the one that we lived in for over 30 years. For over 30 years we lived there and never had any problems. Since we have moved into the city, our car has been broken into 3 times. We now rent the 2 mobile homes to 2 nice families with strict lease rules. We plan on building a small house on the land that we own in the county when we retire. If anyone is ashamed of living in a mobile home, they have their nose stuck so far upward, they’ll drown if they get caught in the rain.
Jason Wallsten sir: I like very much what you did with this mobile home on a basement. Can you please comment on my idea for a California mobile home installation? My idea is this: I'd like to build a strong slab just like for a slab home, but build a reinforced concrete block wall around the perimeter (which will be flush at the outside of the blocks with the outside of the mobile home so it looks like a stick built raised foundation home when it is done. I would guess I'd use something like adjustable jack stands to support the middle of the mobile home. I like the way you guys rolled the mobile home across the basement before lowering it to the supports. (The supports were the steel I-beams? As opposed to some sort of jack stands.) Anyway, have you ever seen anything done like what I propose -- but of course you have done something very similar on a mobile home with the basement, which is awesome, but I can't afford to do all that.) This will be in east San Diego County in California, desert land.
Unfortunately you have state regulations and then also county regulations that can supersede the state. The best advice I can give you is to reach out to your local dealers/movers. Hope that helps
I live in Louisiana and basements don't exist here, water table is too high. I would love to see the video in real time- so amazing I had no idea that a mobile home could have a basement. So amazing
I'm curious , I didn't see any anchors from the concrete basement floor rim to the house ?? is it just sitting on top of the concrete foundation with no anchors ??? usually things are bolted down..????....
A trailer has steel underneath, the steel beams running across from side to side is what the trailer is sitting on, not the basement walls. The walls of trailer will not support the trailers weight. Watch again, they made temporary steel beams to slide trailer across.......they were supported by steel jacks, once in place they lowered the temp beams until the trailer was sitting on the permanent steel beams My basement has support wall with wood beam and steel support poles anchored to basement floor.......if it had steel beam, it would not need steel poles anchored to floor....or not as many
Come on people ..Holy smokes...Its called a roll over because of the method use to put it on the basement foundation ..There is a prebuilt access for the stairs to get up and down. You unscrew it and put a ladder in to get in and out until the stairs are built..You just doubled the square footage adding many dollars of value to the home when finished. this home may be in a very Rual area where they have to haul water and fill storage tanks or use a cistern and pumps. A lot of people do that rather then drill wells at $15,000 at least if not more..
We're taking a double wide off a basement next month I'll make a video you can reverse engineer it I think its just a matter of what space you have in your floor plan Generally they're along an exterior wall
Neat to watch, but I have so many questions. Is there an access door to the basement from outside or do you now have to cut up the floor inside the double wide to access the basement? What about the plumbing and ductwork for the double wide?
Seems like these guys have the method and equipment worked out well. I understand the difference between a mobile home and a permanent built dwelling and the advantages each can have. While this can be done effectively, I’m failing to see the logical advantage of doing so considering the end product compared to building a house with a basement. Perhaps it’s just situational based on chronology of events. As long as it works for the homeowners and their expectations 👍😎
The basement doesn’t appear to be very far above ground level, what happens when it rains and the yard floods or even 1ft of snow, also if you put a slab over the top of that basement you would have a perfect bunker
Are those metal beams supposed to be enough to hold the entire structure up once it's lowered onto the basement? Shouldn't there be some posts down to the floor in at least one or two places along those beams?
@@certifiedyaminspector-dadd6224 -- yes, but if part of the floor gives out on a trailer on footings, it's only going to be a short drop to the ground. It's a much more dangerous drop to the ground with a basement underneath the structure.
@TakenTook fall through a finished floor and 3/4" plywood lol? It would have to rot for years before that could happen. No different than any other floor over a basement. Plus 9/10, they're going to frame a ceiling & walls down there, so it's unlikely someone would fall completely between the joists.
Glad I Watched Your Video Since I Initially "Misjudged A Book By Its Cover!" I'm Assuming There's A Walkout & Interior Access? Has This Been Done A-lot? Thank You.
It was common to refer to mobile homes as “beer cans and kindling “, but these new ones with hardy siding, 2x6 outer walls and such are completely different than they were years ago. I’ve not seen it but am told they are also completely reinforced with strongties for seismic and wind events, not a bad choice if true, but this mobile definitely did not look new, my guess is that if they removed that crappy vinyl siding you’d see aluminum or particle board siding underneath.
probably particle board, while it looked used (could tell from the vinyl and the underneath having rips.) it still looks like its in decent shape so probably was built in the later 90s or 2000s. If i had the money and the land id do this with my single wide, give me more storage and a shelter for strong storms. while mobile homes are not the best, they are budget friendly and for people that see their home as a place to live and shelter vs an investment to sell they are fine, (i know my trailer which was worth 20k-30k when we bought it probably is only worth 10k-15k due to water damage from bad window/vinyl install from the previous owner)
@@jjjacer yeah belly insulation has definitely had to be opened a few times, I think 80’s to 90’s as that is when pb pipe was commonly used and that stuff was always having to be repaired. No it looked pretty decent. Also could be my screen but window frames looked silver, bare aluminum which was largely done away with in the late 80’s early 90’s however my neighbor has a 97 model with them
2 Egress openings are in the length wall. You can make out one of them in the video. In regards to utilities and stairs they would get Installed after the home is set.
@@mobilehomemovers Only 2 windows total (legal egress or otherwise)? Seems kind of an odd, minimal choice for such a large basement. I guess whoever is the owner had their reasons, though.
All the planning, hard work and job well done yet you get twisted by a couple of words. That's all you got from the video, really? Let he without sin cast the first stone... "ityactuall".
Thats NOT a mobile home. The fed gov BANNED the mfg of mobiles way back in 1978. Mobiles were built like Rvs their steel under frame had axles & wheels attached. The front had a trailer hitch attached. They all had a metal shell exterior & did not adhere to ANY building codes. What you have is a MFG Home which has to follow standard building codes for homes. They are built using the same products your house is built with. Just because it arrives on a truck does not make it a mobile. There are commercial buildings that are delivered by truck complete with wiring, fixtures & plumbing. Shell uses these a lot. There is a building called MODULAR HOMES which arrive in sections to be attached & maybe even stacked on site, but built in a factory. !
@@johnf8877 the house was totaled! The vapor barrier underneath was all torn out and siding was destroyed. Then they dropped the house so deep that the foundation is blocking the doors from opening. What a shit show.
Wrong way to look at it. If you priced a site built home compared to this it's a lot cheaper per square foot. Newer mobile homes aren't the 2x2 aluminum windowed garbage of yesteryear. I've been in a few you'd be hard pressed to tell the were not site built.
I imagine this set was around 5k or so. That’s a long way on a stick built house. You already have the foundation and you wouldn’t be throwing your money away on a trailer
A trailer on a permanent foundation is just a house at that point. Trailers built where I live are built better than many stick-built homes with 2 by 6s, 16 on center.
@@timwilson207 that’s not true. They are “on frame Modular’s”which are classified as trailers by insurance co and they are “off frame Modular’s” which is set by cranes on permanent foundation and those are considered basically stick built homes. It all depends on the modular manufacturing co if they are good or not. I’ve built 8 Modular’s for different folks and they all were very different in quality.
@@jiggidyjam For insurance/mortgage reasons in Nova Scotia what you call a trailer on a basement foundation is considered just as much of a house as stick-built home. Modern code in your area for trailers may be different but here they are held to the same standards as stick-built homes as well. I don't see an issue with moving a trailer you already own onto a full basement rather than trying to sell and spending the equivalent on relator commission and legal fees anyhow. Sure in an optimal scenario, you'd be better off building new/onsite but I'm assuming these people weren't already in the optimal scenario to begin and probably already own the trailer because it was what they could afford at the time.
My parents did this in the mid 70's when I was a teen. Was so intrigued by the entire process. house is still there and my mom lives there at 95.
Who else watched this expecting it to “ roll “ over into the basement 😂
totally
Well I was trying to figure out what the title meant…
Expected? The damn tittle said it was going to roll over! 😂😂😂 now I feel taken advantage of.
😂 I’m sure it was by no accident….clickbaited. 🤣
Only a nitwit would think a cheap ,wooden frame building would survive being rolled over…saw a teamster in a hurry one morning ,jack knife a trailer and roll it into an Airstream…both crushed and totaled…
When I was a kid there was a vacant lot across the street. Someone came in and built a big garage there, but didn’t frame up the roof; it was just open on top. Then one day a crane showed up, followed by two halves of a manufactured home. The crane lifted up each half, setting it on the garage walls. By the end of the day there was a manufactured home garage apartment there, and as far as I know it’s still there today.
I'm happy the algorithm decided to show me this video. I've both built manufactured homes and buildings as well as worked on a job where I was a part of putting one on a basement, I don't get the hate though. The buildings I built were superior to site-built homes of the same price point. Everything must be built to the same codes as site built only, we did it inside on an assembly line. Different departments meant everyone was well trained at their particular task and there was no way one could half ass something then pack up their tools and disappear, if you did something wrong, the next person would quickly find out. Maybe all the hate comes from how cheap it becomes to build a home when tradesmen are no longer required to do a job that a college kid can be trained to do for a fraction of the price and time. I will agree that this only applies to modern (last 3 to 4 decades) structures, I've seen some older structures that I wouldn't even work in that were a wind storms fodder.
For me they don't stand up very well to tornadoes. Most trailers burn faster if they catch fire. I'm not a fan of hallways
@@eligebrown8998it’s not a trailer. It a real house that has been built in a factory under controlled conditions and shipped to the site. Arguably better than many houses built on site.
Double wides are notoriously known for needing extra foundational inspections and re-leveling. The added basement idea here is really cool.
Great job guys!
Who needs skirting when you can have a basement?? Awesome!
I'm old enough to have seen mobile homes that had taillights on them🙄
We lived when I grew up in a 12x60 single wide. I remember it having marker lights on it at the top corners. That was in 1970x
Same.
they all still do to get transported
@@freebird7284 it’s not the same…
My aunt still lives in a old ass single wide 1970 something
You should call it Roll onto instead roll over !
I was waiting for the mobile home to do some damage or something. but everything went just fine.
Good job there boys !
Thank you for putting this on RUclips. I did not know this was possible and an option other than piers.
Yeah, I expected to see a mobile home being destroyed as it ROLLED OVER.
Nice work and very interesting to watch. Don't understand why so many are negative about using a prefab home, there's nothing wrong with them and they're cheaper then a custom build. You can do whatever you want on the outside with a porch, deck, patio and landscape and most of these trolls wouldn't even know what it was if they drove by it. Our family cottage was one of these and we went from a chunk of land to a turnkey home in a couple months, can't say that about a stick build.....cheers.
I worked at a prefab facility….they are nearly the same as a stick built nowadays…not like before…. If you put a foundation under a new modular home it is considered a stick built
Exactly, there's no difference, banks, insurance companies and real estate firms couldn't care less when appraising them.@@r.t.9881
I lived in one as a kid and the quality of the materials and finishes leaves something to be desired. But it's good, affordable housing.
Absolutely agreed
@@mikeking7470 higher quality is available, but most choose to go with the "Home Depot" category because they are already going for the cheaper route.
Never seen a trailer with a basement before, thats pretty cool.
Hey Jason! Interesting video and great content. This video is exactly what was promised in the title. I always find it incredible when I've seen double wides like this moved in one piece. You guys have to definitely know what you are doing when setting homes over basements like that. You guys are putting in way more work than the homes I get moved here in Texas and Florida. I can't even imagine all of the lessons you've learned and homes you've set. I was blown away when you told me you set double wides yourself. Be careful out there! Keep up the great work and keep making these videos.
Hey John thanks for the kind words
Now how do we get out from under the house.
Access hole in closet is normally put in before rolling house over. Did lots of these over the course of my career in Alaska. And yes we put single wides, doubles and triples on foundations
In Idaho, I had a double wide Marlette set on a foundation tall enough that I could walk upright under to service the underside about six foot, six inches. The benefit was creating a "cold" storage area.
The unit had a pre designated area for a stairway, I made an access hatch to the underground area.
I love it! Doubling the space! I've never heard of anyone doing this before!!!
I was in this business about 20 yrs ago and we did several like this for people who were already living in the house that was just set on piers or a slab.instead of taking it apart we would just roll it to the side and temporarily reblock it so the customer could still live in it while their new crawl space or basement was installed then we would put it back on the foundation
Umm, how did those workers get out of the basement once it was lowered in?
They're still down there.@@unknownknown2776
I hope you warned them before you started rolling it
Wow, very informative, this is stuff I've always wondered about. Thanks for showing.
Call me crazy...but I suspect those boys have done that once or twice before.
Looked like it to me...
When I first came across this , I thought it was one of those Effed up "things go wrong" on a construction site and it literally rolled over on it's side kinda deals...
We used to do sets this way! We now perform crane ons only, for safety purposes. Thankfully, not due to an incident. Cool video!
I was part of a crew that "set" pre fab's in the '80's. Neat stuff ,thank you.
I was expecting to see a catastrophic fail from the title.
yeah me too. it's not fair 😔
This crew knew their shit, not their first time, most likly
An incredible feat of modern engineering and planning. My mind is bottled by the ingenuity and skill of these wizards. A basement! Just mistyfying. Where can I donate?
... I think this basement, with its I-beams, is just a fantastic way to set up manufactured homes !
... Absolutely blew my mind ! 🤔 ... Who ever devised, and refined this setup, deserves an
🏆 'Official At-a-Boy award' 🏆
I have installed Double wide, and Triple wide, mobile homes all across British Columbia, Canada, and on isolated villages, such as Kitkatla, and Hartley Bay.
They are very easy to install and set up.
Actually the way we built them, when inside you would not know, they are double or triple wides.
In the states mobiles are built to state standards, many (especially snow belt) are built to the same standards as stick built. Other states such as Florida and Arizona the standards are very lax , I lived in both, and the homes are sub par. Just saying look b4 you judge.
Thank you, I wondered how you guys did this. Now I know, definitely doable.
This has to be the most incredible video I'll watch this year. To think people sat down and figured out how to do something like this and actually make it work boggles my mind.
This happened a year ago. Is anyone going to let those men out of the basement?
Well at least I fast forwarded to a minute left, to find out it didn't roll over. Saved 3 minutes of my life.
Alt video title: Several People Bury Themselves Selves Alive
4:29 - On the wall to the right of the stepladder in the background has what looks like a window opening.
@@ILGuy2012 shhhhhhh....
Pretty smart system for moving the house into place. There will be some minor repairs ro make, but it looks like a foos job. I'd like to see how it was finished up in prep for occupancy.
That's way cool. My home is a double wide sits ground level but only a small crawlspace underneath. Anybody who knocks mobile homes nine is paid for as well as the land the property tax is lower than a standard house. As I age I can remodel it ( myself ) to suit my needs.
I like the floor plans on double-wides, big living areas and kitchens.
Why would they not put a secure ceiling on there first here in tornado alley where I live tornados will rip that right off there and wrap it around a tree will everything and everybody in it leaving that basement exposed.
This turned out to be much better than what I expected from the title. 😂
a year later and they are still in that basement
4:29 - On the wall to the right of the stepladder in the background has what looks like a window opening.
Yeahp at first i thought that was for the electrical but its pretty big opening you can see the light coming through top. thanks !@@ILGuy2012
Fascinating to see how they planned and executed it
In an industrial setting this is a “confined space” with special rules and procedures.
When you go home, it’s just a basement.
Basement mobile home!! Never seen that before
I'm going to guess this is not the first time your crew has done this. A lot easier than setting one on blocks.
Used to push them on with a bulldozer and a cushion plank to minimize damage. Usually we'd do the big one's in two halves. Nice if the excavation contractor graded the side pads flat. We did our own, so they were always flat on all sides. Crane setting was way more expensive.
Hey, can somebody get me out of this basement?
4:29 - On the wall to the right of the stepladder in the background has what looks like a window opening.
Suddenly, darkness. "Anyone remember a flashlight?"
Dod the owners need to take everything out of the bouse to lessen the weight?
What items had to be tied down?
What was the final headroom in the basement?
Is that a 24' x 60' trailer?
A LOT of comments showing that many guys have ZERO idea of cost and build quality of todays manufactured homes. They cost and are built SIMILAR almost to most typical site built basic ranch houses. They are NOT build like they were in the 60s and 70s. They are not low cost nor cheap. I have toured through several a few months ago and quite impressive.
😂😆😆😆😆 They are nowhere close to the quality or price of a site built home. You’re fooling yourself! Smh…
Once that home is put on a foundation, and property (land) it will sell just as well as any other home, many times the counters and floors can be higher quality. What made mobile homes unattractive to most people is having a landlord in a mobile home park, danger of it not being attached to a foundation and being property and not realstate Once those are eliminated and it was made by a reputable company you will probably find it selling as well. They have modular (prefab) homes put in site and they sell well. Beside it probably is not about resell and more about having a safe home. Do some research!
Modern manufactured homes are extremely different from mobile homes built prior to 1976, both in terms of construction and design. Manufactured homes are constructed using quality materials inside climate-controlled building facilities and according to the HUD Code. They also typically come in three sizes - single, double and triple section - and can range from under 1,000 sq. ft. to over 2,000.
When it comes to comparing manufactured and modular homes, another factor that can set them apart is the type of foundation typically used for each.
I was a home builder for 40 years, and now (unfortunately) live in a double wide. There is literally NO comparison between the quality of the two. I don't have time to list all the downsides of modular homes. Good luck finding one with a brick veneer, and if you do, good luck with the price.@@Sea-cucumber1151
@@david9783 Why would anyone want a brick veneer? I never got that. If you want a brick house, buy bricks.
Modulars are comparable to "standard" stick built. If you are just having a basic low cost stick home built then its pretty much the same quality. If you are making a fancy house (pretending is brick or not) then no, the modulars are not the same.
I had a low cost builder make me a small 2/1 with a garage for about $75K all in -- its quality is pretty similar to a $50K manufactured home. Add land and dirt work and the MFG would end up a little more expensive but quite a bit bigger. But you can't have an enclosed garage, which is one trade off. The other is many towns won't allow them because they are too big for the roads.
But the city changed code recently to allow ADUs - which are the "tiny home" version of modular. And just as expensive or moreso. The main issue is they cannot be leased, so nobody builds them.
I was quoted 5k additional from the dealer to install a new doublewide on a basement using a crane. Does that sound right? This is installation only not including pouring the basement.
Well, if you had to make the crane payments, I think you'd agree that $5K is reasonable. Keep in mind that two or three years ago, the price would have been half that.
$5000 to put that thing on the basement actually sounds pretty cheap.
It’s not like there’s a whole bunch of people out there doing this type of work that you can get lots of quotes from there’s pretty much no other alternative and if there is, want it’s probably more expensive
I'm thinking that's a good price usually a crane showing up is a minimum $1000 K
✋🏻. I watched the whole video and kept wondering where is the door for the workers to get out? Or is this like the Egyptian tombs where the works get trapped after the work is done lol. I’d also like to know how does the owner get into the basement, I do not believe you could cut into the bottom of the home due to structure reasons?
I can answer that. We did this very thing with our mobile home, though ours was a single-wide. There's probably a bilco door at the one end of the basement which was off-camera, basically it's an alcove built into the one end of the basement with stairs and one of those cellar doors you see in older homes. Once the house was rolled onto the basement, a hole was cut in the floor somewhere in the home (we put ours in the kitchen near where one of the back doors would be) and stairs would be built that go down into the basement.
If you look at the last few seconds of the video, you can see the exit door opening on the right. At 2 minutes into the vid (when mounting the rails) you can see a "bump out" on the mobile where the rear door would be. It seems to be over the basement door. As a guess, they will build stairs down from there covered by an addition?
Mines on a slab. Id love to jack it up and do a block foundation.
these guys have the gear to do the job.....
How much does this Basement foundation go for?
How did they get out from down there?
There was a door toward the upper right around where the ladder was
I never seen a mobile home with a basement was the guys stuck there. A mobile home has no basement door
There are a lot of modular and mobile homes now a days being built with a area inside them already setup for stairs. They usually have a banister set up along side where the opening is gonna be in the floor so someone doesn't fall in.
I am buying a manufactured home from a friend. Currently it is not on a basement, just pillars. I am moving it to a new location and want to put a basement under it. I have been told that a basement would be almost impossible and that they can not move it in one piece. I could really use some advice and help on how to make this happen.
It can be moved in 1 or 2 pieces.
Moving it as one really depends on obstacles bridges, power lines, trees, driveways, budget, etc. What I've found to be the most critical is a confident concrete guy. He must measure from outside rim joist to outside rim joist, length and width Preferably before the home is separated, if possible. Hope this helps.
This is awesome, I currently have a manufactured home 4 br 2 bath on Brick foundation but I want to add a basement. Is it possible to move off the brick foundation to add basement?
If you are looking in to manufactured homes, in other words mobile home, check to see what the builder uses for sub flooring. Saw dust and glue are not acceptable. My wife and I learned this the hard way. ANY moisture exposure and you will be replacing flooring. Plan ahead and pay for better quality up front and it will save you down the road.
The sheeting they use is called particle board and you are right it does not like water. That stuff actually works almost like a sponge and soaks the water up and it swells and disintegrates. This is what they use to build these, i don't know first hand if you can pay extra for plywood or at least osb board or not. But it could be an option if not then you may want to stick build.
That's crazy. Are they still down there underneath the double wide?
Don’t worry. A tornado will swing by and lift off so they can get out.
Usually modular Homes are the ones taken off their frames and placed on a permanent foundation. Poor choice of words used when describing the slide over onto the foundation with a basement.
Jason have you seen this done with a single wide mobile home as that is what I am planning on doing with mine.
Yes, we've done a new one last year
@@mobilehomemovers do you have a video on how that was done so I can prepare.
@@meadoman2000 just uploaded a pic slide show vid
Those guys are still trapped under the mobile home, aren't they?
The Ah 💩 when the last light disappeared
Need Human Sacrifices To Keep The Tornados at bay!!!
They had a sawzall but the basement didn't have a plugin
I think I saw a doorway in the far corner - otherwise - they will be cutting a hole thru the floor !
@@veronicaroach3667 The only guys who can cut a hole in the floor are the guys trapped under the mobile home - and they don't have their tools with them!
Much better than tin skirts and undertrailer pests.
Kansas would be a good place for a basement under a mobile home.
Under any home.
Kansas is never a go place for a M/H over anything. I had a friend in Ks. In a regular house. The Tornado alert radio alarmed the same time his roof went away.
@@iguanapete3809 I grew up in central Texas in a MH until I was 9, we saw funnels way in the distance, never anything close up. I never understood why my sister always freeked out and made us all go to the barn and into the well pump basement. Then I did clean up in April of 1979 at the Red River Valley outbreak. I called my sister and thanked her.
There are different grades of mobile homes. Some have particular board sub flooring, 3/8 inch roll paper sheetrock and stripping. I call these “10 year mobile homes”. Some have 1/2 inch OSB sub flooring with both roll paper and painted sheet rock and stripping. I call these 15 years mobile homes. Some have 1/2 inch plywood sub flooring, painted 1/2 sheetrock and stripping. These are 20 years mobile homes. Then there are some with with 3/4 plywood sub floors, 16 inch center 2x6 exterior studded walls with 16 inch center 2x4 studded walls. Mudded and painted 5/8 sheet rock walls with crown molding, base board with toe kick. I call these a home. You can actually request and have these taken off of the steel framing, crane lifted and sat on a concrete foundation like a modular home. Both Clayton and Champion make every one of these grades of mobile homes. The last of these homes can last you a lifetime and cost well over $100,000. Their countertops look like solid surface countertops but they’re actually laminate. Beautiful homes but still not as good as a site built house.
The problem is there is a stigma attached to the whole idea of living in a 'mobile' - therefore if it looks like it is a 'mobile' you will be considered to be living in one regardless how well it is built. Before I bought my first house I looked at just about every cheaper alternative to a normal home that I could possible afford - almost bought a mobile on an acre because of the great land, then realised the likely limited timeframe for the not-considered-permanent home - so I resisted that & went for a very small 'real' house which needed work. Much the better choice since a few fixes & some decorating changed its' status easily !
@@veronicaroach3667 it’s actually not a problem and some people see no stigma of living in a mobile home. My wife and I raised our children in a double wide. Not everyone has the mindset that you’re speaking of. We lived in the county while raising our children but moved to the city limits about three years ago. We now own this small house but still own the mobile home and another one that is next door to the one that we lived in for over 30 years. For over 30 years we lived there and never had any problems. Since we have moved into the city, our car has been broken into 3 times. We now rent the 2 mobile homes to 2 nice families with strict lease rules. We plan on building a small house on the land that we own in the county when we retire. If anyone is ashamed of living in a mobile home, they have their nose stuck so far upward, they’ll drown if they get caught in the rain.
How did those workers get out of the basement?
Unfortunately, they never escaped.
Their still there
😂
Step two: Build basement stairs.
Jason Wallsten sir: I like very much what you did with this mobile home on a basement. Can you please comment on my idea for a California mobile home installation? My idea is this: I'd like to build a strong slab just like for a slab home, but build a reinforced concrete block wall around the perimeter (which will be flush at the outside of the blocks with the outside of the mobile home so it looks like a stick built raised foundation home when it is done. I would guess I'd use something like adjustable jack stands to support the middle of the mobile home. I like the way you guys rolled the mobile home across the basement before lowering it to the supports. (The supports were the steel I-beams? As opposed to some sort of jack stands.) Anyway, have you ever seen anything done like what I propose -- but of course you have done something very similar on a mobile home with the basement, which is awesome, but I can't afford to do all that.) This will be in east San Diego County in California, desert land.
Unfortunately you have state regulations and then also county regulations that can supersede the state. The best advice I can give you is to reach out to your local dealers/movers. Hope that helps
Great job ppl , with just a few ppl ,, 👍 Well Done ,, !!!
I've never seen anything like this before. Where was this located ?
Amazing!
Kansas
I live in Louisiana and basements don't exist here, water table is too high.
I would love to see the video in real time- so amazing
I had no idea that a mobile home could have a basement. So amazing
That was slid over, not rolled over.
No it was on rollers.
I'm curious , I didn't see any anchors from the concrete basement floor rim to the house ?? is it just sitting on top of the concrete foundation with no anchors ??? usually things are bolted down..????....
A trailer has steel underneath, the steel beams running across from side to side is what the trailer is sitting on, not the basement walls. The walls of trailer will not support the trailers weight.
Watch again, they made temporary steel beams to slide trailer across.......they were supported by steel jacks, once in place they lowered the temp beams until the trailer was sitting on the permanent steel beams
My basement has support wall with wood beam and steel support poles anchored to basement floor.......if it had steel beam, it would not need steel poles anchored to floor....or not as many
how'd they get out of the basement?
they are still in there and this is a video calling for help to get out.....🤣
@@joedoe6444😂
@@joedoe6444 Good one.
Come on people ..Holy smokes...Its called a roll over because of the method use to put it on the basement foundation ..There is a prebuilt access for the stairs to get up and down. You unscrew it and put a ladder in to get in and out until the stairs are built..You just doubled the square footage adding many dollars of value to the home when finished. this home may be in a very Rual area where they have to haul water and fill storage tanks or use a cistern and pumps. A lot of people do that rather then drill wells at $15,000 at least if not more..
Ya, probably right, didn't look like the basement had windows.
In the UK if a vehicle that has crashed and landed on it's roof that would be classed as a rollover with damage.
Same here in the States.
I was expecting that very thing, considering the title, and after reading through some comments, I'm not the only one!😄
That's the difference between rolling over something and having a rollover.
I see an under the radar speak easy with pool tables and a jukebox.
And a stripper pole.
I’m trying to do this could you possibly make a video of the process and how the steps to the basement work/ where they go
We're taking a double wide off a basement next month I'll make a video you can reverse engineer it
I think its just a matter of what space you have in your floor plan
Generally they're along an exterior wall
Neat to watch, but I have so many questions. Is there an access door to the basement from outside or do you now have to cut up the floor inside the double wide to access the basement? What about the plumbing and ductwork for the double wide?
I didn't notice any water or sewer lines in the basement.
They might be "stubbed in" and capped. Easy enough to add later.
Bottom left corner
I would not call it home rolled over but home slide over.
Excellent job!
Seems like these guys have the method and equipment worked out well.
I understand the difference between a mobile home and a permanent built dwelling and the advantages each can have.
While this can be done effectively, I’m failing to see the logical advantage of doing so considering the end product compared to building a house with a basement.
Perhaps it’s just situational based on chronology of events.
As long as it works for the homeowners and their expectations 👍😎
The advantage is cost savings and time
The basement doesn’t appear to be very far above ground level, what happens when it rains and the yard floods or even 1ft of snow, also if you put a slab over the top of that basement you would have a perfect bunker
If you'll notice at the top of the basement steamwall on the outside is a brickledge meaning the vinyl siding comes off and red brick gets laid.
Are those metal beams supposed to be enough to hold the entire structure up once it's lowered onto the basement? Shouldn't there be some posts down to the floor in at least one or two places along those beams?
They'll hold.
Trailer houses aren't heavy. Those beams will hold much more then that house.
I'm just wondering what you think those concrete walls are for? Normally a trailer just sits on blocks & footings.
@@certifiedyaminspector-dadd6224 -- yes, but if part of the floor gives out on a trailer on footings, it's only going to be a short drop to the ground. It's a much more dangerous drop to the ground with a basement underneath the structure.
@TakenTook fall through a finished floor and 3/4" plywood lol? It would have to rot for years before that could happen. No different than any other floor over a basement. Plus 9/10, they're going to frame a ceiling & walls down there, so it's unlikely someone would fall completely between the joists.
I've done this before, but using railroad ties, rollers, hydrolic jacks and wedges. inch by inch.
Was expecting it to actually "roll over".
Same
Glad I Watched Your Video Since I Initially "Misjudged A Book By Its Cover!" I'm Assuming There's A Walkout & Interior Access? Has This Been Done A-lot? Thank You.
It was common to refer to mobile homes as “beer cans and kindling “, but these new ones with hardy siding, 2x6 outer walls and such are completely different than they were years ago. I’ve not seen it but am told they are also completely reinforced with strongties for seismic and wind events, not a bad choice if true, but this mobile definitely did not look new, my guess is that if they removed that crappy vinyl siding you’d see aluminum or particle board siding underneath.
probably particle board, while it looked used (could tell from the vinyl and the underneath having rips.) it still looks like its in decent shape so probably was built in the later 90s or 2000s.
If i had the money and the land id do this with my single wide, give me more storage and a shelter for strong storms. while mobile homes are not the best, they are budget friendly and for people that see their home as a place to live and shelter vs an investment to sell they are fine, (i know my trailer which was worth 20k-30k when we bought it probably is only worth 10k-15k due to water damage from bad window/vinyl install from the previous owner)
@@jjjacer yeah belly insulation has definitely had to be opened a few times, I think 80’s to 90’s as that is when pb pipe was commonly used and that stuff was always having to be repaired. No it looked pretty decent. Also could be my screen but window frames looked silver, bare aluminum which was largely done away with in the late 80’s early 90’s however my neighbor has a 97 model with them
About how much is the slab and poured walls, and your fee to move a house that size? Thanks
Enough to keep us in business
The cost for the rollover alone can be from 6,000 to 12,000+ depending on size, location and structure conditions
@@SG-uh6sw just asked a question. Thanks for the great anwser!
@@petestrawser4447 you're welcome
9 ft basement, but no egress windows? Assess stairs interior only? No plumbing & electric or heating in the basement?
2 Egress openings are in the length wall. You can make out one of them in the video. In regards to utilities and stairs they would get Installed after the home is set.
@Jason Wallsten I enjoyed watching those men being closed in. I layer noticed that they entered through off camera right. Thanks.
@@mysticmeadowshomestead6209 That should have been your hint...
@@mobilehomemovers Only 2 windows total (legal egress or otherwise)? Seems kind of an odd, minimal choice for such a large basement. I guess whoever is the owner had their reasons, though.
That is awesome. You could hide down there, no one would suspect a basement.
You could hide from tornadoes, and they'd never know you were there.
Colin Furze's holiday home? :-)
Rolled over might not be the best words to use. lol How about placed over or installed over? Rolled over makes one think ityactuall rolled over
All the planning, hard work and job well done yet you get twisted by a couple of words. That's all you got from the video, really? Let he without sin cast the first stone... "ityactuall".
Click bait, not a accident.
Thats NOT a mobile home. The fed gov BANNED the mfg of mobiles way back in 1978. Mobiles were built like
Rvs their steel under frame had axles & wheels attached. The front had a trailer hitch attached. They all had a
metal shell exterior & did not adhere to ANY building codes. What you have is a MFG Home which has to follow
standard building codes for homes. They are built using the same products your house is built with.
Just because it arrives on a truck does not make it a mobile. There are commercial buildings that are delivered by
truck complete with wiring, fixtures & plumbing. Shell uses these a lot. There is a building called MODULAR HOMES
which arrive in sections to be attached & maybe even stacked on site, but built in a factory.
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I love how they had the home Bent on the trailer. bet the walls and ceilings looked great.
What? 2x3” construction that has been out on a lot for 2 years, then driven to the site isn’t square😂😂?
@@johnf8877 the house was totaled! The vapor barrier underneath was all torn out and siding was destroyed. Then they dropped the house so deep that the foundation is blocking the doors from opening. What a shit show.
That is so freaking awesome!
This is interesting, but the huge expense of the concrete basement doesn’t really match the low-cost of a mobile home.
Wrong way to look at it. If you priced a site built home compared to this it's a lot cheaper per square foot. Newer mobile homes aren't the 2x2 aluminum windowed garbage of yesteryear. I've been in a few you'd be hard pressed to tell the were not site built.
@@biffmalibu3733 Fair enough. How much do you think that basement cost?
@@ronliebermann basement plus ground floor cost way less than 2 story house......... basement plus trailer = savings
They are not low cost though. You seem to have no idea how manufactured homes are built in the last few decades.
I imagine this set was around 5k or so. That’s a long way on a stick built house. You already have the foundation and you wouldn’t be throwing your money away on a trailer
A trailer on a permanent foundation is just a house at that point. Trailers built where I live are built better than many stick-built homes with 2 by 6s, 16 on center.
@@timwilson207 that’s not true. They are “on frame Modular’s”which are classified as trailers by insurance co and they are “off frame Modular’s” which is set by cranes on permanent foundation and those are considered basically stick built homes. It all depends on the modular manufacturing co if they are good or not. I’ve built 8 Modular’s for different folks and they all were very different in quality.
@@jiggidyjam For insurance/mortgage reasons in Nova Scotia what you call a trailer on a basement foundation is considered just as much of a house as stick-built home. Modern code in your area for trailers may be different but here they are held to the same standards as stick-built homes as well.
I don't see an issue with moving a trailer you already own onto a full basement rather than trying to sell and spending the equivalent on relator commission and legal fees anyhow. Sure in an optimal scenario, you'd be better off building new/onsite but I'm assuming these people weren't already in the optimal scenario to begin and probably already own the trailer because it was what they could afford at the time.
how much does something like this cost? I want to move my manufactured and put it on a basement
There are a lot of variables that will affect costs We've done them from 8,000 all the way upto 36,000
Exactly what I want to do and with two entrance/exits so $20k ish, sounds like a great investment to me not to mention all the newfound space
Nice work fellas! I think it would have been cool to have heavy metal playing in the background to add some drama LOL
how did they get out
They're still there today. Legends and folk songs will be written for centuries about the bravery.
@@ebinmaine😊
They turned on no-clipping mode
@@KC9UDX What is this mode? Need I learn something new?
Is this a Gus Frings approved design?
Didn't even see a basement access anywhere cut into the insulation ?.....no egress access either?
4:29 - On the wall to the right of the stepladder in the background has what looks like a window opening.
I didn’t know this was even a thing.