Do you know what is living underneath your mobile home? If you are lucky and your entire mobile home is resting on a cement slab this doesn’t concern you. But if your mobile home is sitting in the dirt or half on and half off cement? Read on.

What is living under your mobile home? Did you know there is a whole animal kingdom living under your home? Can it help to have mobile home skirting ?

Wild animal love to dig and tunnel their way underground stopping under your mobile home to rest. They also like to dig from the outside of your home jump inside and get trapped and die.

DOES THIS HAPPEN OFTEN?

The answer is yes. The second year I lived in my mobile home I woke up one morning with the worst odor possible squeezing my senses. Even though I had lived in my home for a year I had never encountered this stench before.

I called a friend and he investigated and found a dead animal lying on the ground underneath the skirting on my mobile home. He though it was a opossum. Luckily it was close to the side and he just had to reach in and retrieve.

A few months later I once again woke to this wonderful aroma of another dead animal under my mobile home.

I called the local pest control place and they sent a representative to remove the dead skunk. The man said to me he had retrieved the dead skunk and the charge was $100.00 which I gladly paid to be able to live in my home and breathe.

RIPPED OFF:

That is not the end of this story. One week later on Mothers Day I woke once again to this horrific smell this time 10 times worse. Of course it was a weekend and holiday so I could not call the same company that had been out seven days ago.

I made several phone calls until I found a man that was willing to come out to my home on a holiday and remove the skunk from under the mobile home skirting.

He was a wonderful man who immediately bent over and entered the world of animal life and whatever habitats under my mobile home. He removed the dead skunk and called me out to see it. I had already explained about the other visit from the other company.

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If you live in a mobile home with vinyl skirting, you already know the problems string trimmers can do to your skirting.

Vinyl skirting is great, good looking and affordable, but it just is not designed to withstand the whipping forces of modern string trimmers.

But, with the addition of mobile home skirting to your mobile home skirting's bottom track, existing holes are covered and your skirting is now safe, because mobile home skirting is strong enough to string trim against

PEST CONTROL COMPANY:

On Monday morning I called the Pest Control Company. I spoke to the lady in charge. She said the paperwork stated that the animal had been left and not removed.

Now I ask you, why would I lie about something like this. Anyway, the bottom line is I should have taken the extra step to make sure the animal was indeed removed. Also I had never received any paperwork from this representative of the company who supposedly removed the dead skunk.

This all happened a couple of years ago when the area I was living in was alive with fires. The animals were running for their lives and ended up dead under numerous mobile homes.

The city will send animal control to removed dead animals off the city streets or freeways but they do not enter private dwellings.

The reason I have written this story is for you the mobile home skirting owner to be aware of what lurks beneath your mobile home skirting.

Those are the issues and many more. Please write, call, fax, or email your representatives.

If you do not know who they are ask your representatives of your Home Owners Association.