It makes no sense, other than it is cheap to do short-term, but many manufactured homes have a wood skirting around them and that wood skirting is buried in the ground. When wood is in contact with earth, over time, it will eventually decay. That applies to plywood, OSB and you name it. Even pressure treated lumber, in this application, is often found to be rotting behind the skirting. The probe, in the decayed wood, says it all. A skirting at a manufactured home should be made of either a cement-based product or metal. Thanks for stopping by, Steven L. Smith
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My assistant and I were just talking about this last week. Treated wood can rot.
Hi Steven, I don't know whoever thought this was a good idea for skirting material, but they use it quite a bit in SW Florida. jay
I think that's not a probe but an antenna and you are skirting the issue completely.
Just another way that this industry skirts a huge issue in order to maximize their profits...
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Makes you assume that these homes are not suppose to be a long term solution to housing.
I saw lenders' underwriting requirements include skirting. Go figure.
I have seen this also and always wondered why they would do this practice. It should be required that a non-wood product that is not degradable by soil be used.