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mobile home: Mobile Homes: Vapor Barrier Vs Vapor Barrier - 03/23/08 12:07 PM

Mobile and manufactured homes have some oddities of construction compared to stick-built homes. One of those, that is often misunderstood, is the issue of the "vapor barrier." Under a conventional home, everybody knows what we are talking about when we discuss the crawl space vapor barrier -- the plastic sheet over the soil.
At a manufactured home, the structure the units rest on can vary from concrete blocks or steel posts on soil with no footings, to blocks on gravel with or without footings, to a concrete slab, to ribbons (concrete strips) that serve as footings for blocks or posts. There should be … (1 comments)

 
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Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector

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