Mobile Home Removal in Mobile County
A manufactured home is a demolition job and a title problem at once.
- THE JOB
- Demolishing and hauling a mobile or manufactured home, and clearing the pad
- TYPICALLY
- Single-wides, double-wides, park models and older trailers
- THE PAPERWORK
- A manufactured home is titled like a vehicle. Ownership has to be clear
- WHAT COMES OUT
- The home, the skirting, the tie-downs, the piers and the steps
- THE PAD
- Concrete runners or a slab, broken out and hauled if you want it gone
- SERVICES
- Power pole, water, sewer or septic all disconnected first
- SEPTIC
- Pumped and crushed or removed, and the hole filled. Quoted separately
- PRE-1980
- Asbestos is possible in older units. Survey before anything is touched
- TIME ON SITE
- A day for most single-wides, one to two for a double
Every one of these jobs is priced from the property itself, so there is no figure on this page to mislead you.
251-415-4545Call and we will come and look at it. The estimate is free and you get it in writing.
Start with who owns it on paper
This is the part that stalls these jobs, and it's worth getting straightened out before you call anybody.
In Alabama a manufactured home is titled like a vehicle rather than conveyed like a house. So whose land it sits on is only half the question. Whose name is on the title matters just as much, and so does whether a lienholder is still recorded against it. Two situations come up all the time. One is an inherited home where nobody has ever seen the title. The other is a home sitting on land the owner bought, where the home came with the land and the paperwork didn't.
If the title is missing, the county probate office is the place to start, and it's usually solvable. If a lender is still recorded, they have to release it. Neither one is something we can do for you, but either one can hold up a demolition everybody agrees on for weeks. Knowing about it early is worth more than anything else on this page.
If the home is in a park rather than on your own land, the park usually has its own requirements about lot condition and about who's allowed on site. Tell us and we'll follow them.
Whose name is on the title matters just as much.
What actually comes out
People picture the box and forget everything holding it down and hooking it up, and that's most of the debris.
We take the home itself apart rather than hauling it off in one piece. Older units are mostly wood frame, thin paneling and insulation, with a steel chassis underneath that gets separated and recycled. The metal roofing and siding go the same way.
Then there's everything underneath. The skirting, whether it's block, vinyl or metal. The tie-down anchors and straps. The concrete or block piers the home rested on, and an older unit may have a lot of them. The steps and any deck or porch built onto it, which are often the largest wood structures on the job.
The pad is where you have a choice. Some sites have twin concrete runners, some a full slab, some just compacted gravel. If a new home is going back on it, we leave it. If the lot is being cleared for good, the concrete comes out with the rest and the ground is graded.
Services, septic and the power pole
Every service gets disconnected first, and the account holder has to request it. That means power, water, gas if there's any, and sewer.
Most rural sites here are on septic rather than sewer, and a tank can't just be left in the ground. It's pumped, then either crushed in place or removed, and the hole is filled. That's quoted separately because not every property has one and the size varies. A well, if there is one, needs to be capped to code.
The power pole and the meter base belong to the utility, not you, and the utility takes them. Schedule that early. It's a common reason a cleared lot still has one thing standing on it a couple of weeks later.
Asbestos in older units
Manufactured homes built before about 1980 can contain the same materials as any house of that age: floor tile and the mastic under it, some panel products, and pipe insulation. It's less common than in a site-built house of the same era, but it isn't rare, and the rule is the same. If the unit is old enough, a survey happens before anything is touched.
If the survey is clean, the job goes ahead. If it isn't, licensed abatement comes first. That's the one thing on a mobile home removal that can change the schedule significantly, so the age of the unit is the first thing we ask about.
Questions we get asked
I inherited it and can't find the title. Can you still remove it?
Not until ownership is clear. We know that's not the answer you want, but it's the honest one. The county probate office is where to start, and it's usually solvable. Start early, because it takes longer than the demolition does.
Do you move mobile homes as well as demolish them?
We do demolition and removal. Relocating a home intact is a transport job, with permits and escorts, and that's a different trade.
Does the concrete pad have to come out?
Only if you want it to. If another home is going back on it, leaving it saves you money. If the lot is being cleared for good, it comes out with everything else.
What about the septic tank?
It's pumped and then crushed in place or removed, and the hole is filled. It's quoted separately because not every property has one and they vary in size.
Can you do it while the lot stays in use?
In a park, usually, and we follow the park's own rules about access and lot condition. Tell us which park when you call.
How long does it take?
A day for most single-wides once the utilities are off, one to two for a double-wide. The paperwork and the disconnects are what set the start date.
Where we do this
We take this work anywhere in Mobile County, AL and Jackson County, MS, and the yard is in Theodore, so most of the territory is inside an hour.
A lot of the county outside the city is on septic rather than sewer, so the tank comes up on most rural lots.
Service area
Mobile Theodore Tillman's Corner Grand Bay Saraland Satsuma Creola Chickasaw Prichard Semmes Wilmer Eight Mile Moss Point Pascagoula Gautier