Services - Install - Mobile Home

Mobile Home heating and air conditioning is a different application in general. The requirements are very different and they require attention to different details and have special care requirements. The two major differences is in regards to furnaces and the ducting.

Furnaces
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a federal agency that is responsible for the mobile home heating and air requirements and over-sees that these requirements are adhered to. In essents the requirements deal with air flow and a sealed combustion that draws in outside air. In mobile homes the furnace is always installed in the living area, usually in a closet, which makes carbon monoxide more of a concern. Therefore the systems are required to have a sealed combustion system that will draw in outside air with good air flow. To accommodate these requirements, furnaces must be mobile home approved.

Ducting
The ducting of mobile homes are not complicated and yet have special circumstances. The ducting of mobile homes usually run parallel down each side of the length of the coach and then they are connected, with what is as known, as a crossover duct in the middle that connects the two. The two parallel ducting is built into the bottom of the coach with all but the crossover duct concealed. The ducting is made of flex or sheet metal or a combination of both. In older mobile homes you can pretty much expect that the ducting was never sealed when it was installed and the heat and cool lose is quite substantial. In newer mobile homes it is sometimes sealed and sometimes not. The problem is that it is not assessable to be seal unless the whole bottom of the mobile home is dismantled, the ducting sealed and then the bottom of the coach reassembled. This can be quite costly. Another problem is that while the ducting is largely unaccessible without major surgery, it apparently isn’t to animals. Skunks, cats, raccoons love mobile homes. Conventional homes have foundations, and while animal do break in to the underside of homes and destroy ducting, it is usually harder for them than getting under mobile homes. And the ducting under conventional homes are accessible and can be repaired or replaced. With mobile homes, often all we can repair or replace is the crossover ducting. Your mobile home should be checked periodically for animal proofing and to make sure your crossover ducting is in good shape.

Air Conditioning
As far as Air Condition goes there are no restriction or regulations in regards to mobile homes at this time.