Mobile Home Leveling Cost Calculator

Answer six questions and this gives you roughly the range we would give you over the phone, built from the prices on the pricing page rather than from a lead form. No email, and the answer updates as you go.

What actually moves a Lowcountry quote

Home size. A singlewide sits on fewer piers than a doublewide, and a doublewide also has the marriage line, which is the seam down the middle where the two halves meet and the place a settled home shows it first.

How far out of level it has gone. A home a quarter inch out across ten feet is a reshim. A home that has dropped two inches on one corner has usually taken piers, pads, and sometimes plumbing with it.

Pier condition. The single biggest swing. On the Lowcountry’s wet sand and clay a pad can press into the ground, a block can crack, and a pier can end up carrying nothing at all. Resetting a pier is $75–$150; rebuilding one with new blocks, cap, and pad is $150–$400. Eight of those is a different job from none.

Access underneath. Skirting that has to come off and go back, tight clearance, standing water, or a belly that has to be opened all add time. A crew that has to work on its back in six inches of damp ground is slower than one that can move.

What else is found. A torn vapor barrier, loose or rusted anchors, or a soft subfloor over a lost pier. Those are separate line items and you see them before anybody starts.

Why Lowcountry homes settle

The coastal plain around Charleston is soft, low, and sitting over a shallow water table, so the soil carrying each small pier footing is saturated for much of the year. Sandy ground drains quickly at the surface and stays wet underneath, clay-bearing ground changes volume as it wets and dries, and saturated ground moves under concentrated load.

Three things follow.

Pads press in. A pad bearing on soft, wet ground settles, and it does it faster than on firmer soil. Larger pads spread the load better, and on soft lots that is a real specification question rather than a default.

Water is close. A high water table plus tidal influence near the rivers and creeks means the ground under a home is wet for much of the year, and wet ground compacts differently under load. Standing water under a home is both a settling problem and a rot problem.

Storms saturate everything. A tropical system does not have to make landfall here to leave the Lowcountry soaked for a week, and the settling that follows shows up as sticking doors months later rather than on the day the water drops.

Three to five years is an honest maintenance interval for most homes here, and at the short end if the ground under yours stays wet.

Before you book anything

Run the settling self-check first. It scores twelve things you can see from inside the home and it will tell you honestly if nothing is wrong. The tie-down planner does the same for anchoring.

Then take the free level check. It takes about half an hour, includes pier-by-pier readings and a written price, and costs nothing whether or not you book.

The calculator’s ranges hold across Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek, Moncks Corner, North Charleston, St. George, and Walterboro.