Footers and piers
Two trades pour footers for a manufactured or mobile home: a mason, or the grading and site-prep contractor who is already on the lot. Many do both.
Short answer: Footers are the concrete the home sits on — poured footings under each block pier, or a perimeter footing for a pier-and-beam setup. The layout comes from the home's installation manual or an engineered foundation plan, not from the contractor's preference. A mason or a site-prep contractor digs and pours them; the setup crew then sets the block piers and the home. Your county may inspect the footers before the home is set, so ask before you schedule the delivery.
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Digging, forming, and pouring concrete footers and footings to the home's pier layout.
Block piers set on the footers, or a perimeter footing for a pier-and-beam foundation.
Redoing footers or piers that failed inspection or settled after the home was set.
Step 1
The home's installation manual or engineered foundation plan, with the pier layout.
Step 2
The home's dimensions and its serial or model number.
Step 3
Your county's permit and footer inspection requirements.
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Digging to the depth the plan calls for, forming, pouring and finishing the concrete, and often setting the block piers on top. If the ground is rock, wet or sloped, the price and the schedule change, and the contractor should say how before starting.
Footers come after the pad is graded and the driveway is in — the concrete truck needs it — and before the home is transported and set. Get the pier layout in hand before you call anyone.
Tell us the job and the ZIP. The request goes to the poured footers category, where contractors who do this work see it.
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Not everywhere. Some counties accept the state installation standard's pier footings without a poured footer; others require poured footers or an engineered plan. It is a county-by-county answer — the installation manual sets the minimum, and the county can add to it.
Sometimes. Many setup crews set block piers on footers someone else poured; some do the whole thing. Ask the setup contractor and the footer contractor the same question — who pours, who sets the piers — so nothing falls between them.
The home's pier layout from the installation manual or an engineered plan, the home's dimensions, and photos of the graded pad and the drive the truck will use.
