Strapping down a mobile home

[anto]

A friend of mine is building a house and in the interim will be living in a mobile home/ static.
How are these mobiles normally held down? Or what is the best most cost effective way of doing it?

Thanks,
Anton

 

[Shox Dr]

Straps through the chassis

 

[gordon stephenson]

As above, with some big re-bar rods with eye's driven in deep and at an opposite angle to the load,

 

[WorkshopChris]

Chain or wire rope and turnbuckls to tension.
https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Security/d200/Shackles+&+Chain/sd2612/Turnbuckle/p30160

 

[brightspark]

depends on the site to how windy it is and exposed. either large angle driven in and straps or if bad dig out and concrete some bar in

 

[W.olly]

As above, no need to if not blowing a hooley, and i mean a hooley.

Other wise a few rods a few feet long smacked in and ratchet straps to go through the chassis.

I lived in one for 2 years in a fairly open area and just sat it on breeze blocks.

Mind you i had good ballast with plenty of crates of cider

 

[mike 109444]

Just make sure yer mate does not over tighten the straps cos my late dad seen plenty of statics from his that were over done by the "site pros " that would then have gaps in the panels. Reason being as they are a single axle they tend to bow like a banana. Also they would let them RUN off the transport trailer and into there spot (to avoid messing with a tug) and this would also flex the frame badly.

 

[brightspark]

Just make sure yer mate does not over tighten the straps cos my late dad seen plenty of statics from his that were over done by the "site pros " that would then have gaps in the panels. Reason being as they are a single axle they tend to bow like a banana. Also they would let them RUN off the transport trailer and into there spot (to avoid messing with a tug) and this would also flex the frame badly.

best laugh I saw was a static being towed down the a66 and the axle had overheated snapped needless to say it was a traveller so I bet they never got done

 

[Justme]

Ground anchor screws.

 

[Migmac]

On the caravan site here they are tied down using wire rope through the chassis and fastened onto ground anchors. The sides and roofs get blown off but the chassis and floor stay put!

 

[postie jon]

we lived in a caravan for 6 months on site while house was being finished. ratchet strap over the top,tied to a tree ,other end to an angled post, used to make a lovely brrrrring noise on a windy night. o the fond memories.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

....tied to a tree....

Ooops!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

best laugh I saw was a static being towed down the a66 and the axle had overheated snapped needless to say it was a traveller so I bet they never got done

Probably just uncoupled it and drove off.

 

[Cobbler]

Ooops!

Soon after we were married, we shared a static caravan for a holiday with a friend & his girlfriend. Let's say they were somewhat energetic, they kept us awake most of the night & the van was an old one just sat on blocks, rather unsteadily. At the end of a fortnight the van was in a different position, just about to drop off the edge. He's sadly gone now, but when the family were looking for anecdotes to read out at the funeral & I thought, no can't quote that one.

 

[Shox Dr]

Spent the summer of '77 just outside Sheildaig. A lad working on the rigs was digging in a static, went home one very windy night, leaving with the words 'I wonder if the door is still on' [it had a habbit of falling off]
He came back 1/2hr later, it had been blown off the plateau it was on, ending up 200'+ down on the beach. The door was still on swinging in the wind. With little else left. I remember someone living in a massive teepee in the layby on the bottom road, and that was still standing

 

[normspanners]

our static was lashed by the site guys and they used galv fence wire with a heel bar through it and turnbuckled it. from ground anchors to chassis

 

[awemawson]

Is a 'heel bar' where you get your winkle pickers fixed

 

[ranchero]

lived in one for 4 years only thing holding it down was gravity

 

[addjunkie]

the one i live in has a 50mm by 50mm angle hammer in in each corner 900mm long and only 100mm out of the ground. it then has galv single strand wire wrapped between the ground peg and the caravans chassis 6 times up and 6 times down and then twisted around its self to hold it self tight

When I did up my place, we lived in a static for a year. Quite a windy location. I too use 50x50 angle driven in and 2 inch ratchet straps through the chasis. The other thing I did was to box in around the base to stop wind getting under neath. 1 week of drafts was ebough to justify the cost of the boarding. Think it made it alot warmer over the winter. Well my other half said it was minus 10 outside one day. I missed that as I was in Angola that week.

Insulating all the pipework underneath was also nescessary as they are not normally done very well.

Heating was electric radiators oil filled, and a retro fit log burner, to avoid the damp caused by the gas fire and gas cooker. Only gas appliance was water heating.