Posts Tagged ‘HUD’

In most manufactured homes, a kitchen exhaust fan is required under HUD standards. The system must move at least 100 CFM and vent air outside the home. This ventilation helps remove moisture, grease, and cooking odors that build up during normal cooking.

Steam on the mirror, a lingering cooking smell, paint that starts to peel sooner than it should—inside a manufactured home, those small signs often trace back to the same issue: mobile home ventilation that isn’t moving air the way it was meant to. The tricky part is that not every home was built to the
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A musty smell that won’t leave. A soft spot near the bathroom. A stain that keeps coming back at the bottom edge of a wall. These are the kinds of signs that are hard to ignore, because mold growth usually means moisture has been sitting somewhere it shouldn’t. If you’re trying to find mold in
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You don’t always hear it said outright, but it’s been passed around the manufactured-home community for years: “You’re not supposed to attach things to a mobile home.” It gets repeated often enough that even simple upgrades start to feel questionable. That’s why permit questions come up so often. What counts as a mobile home add-on
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