The Best Way to Install Mobile Home Skirting

Walk to one side of the mobile home and measure up 4 inches from the bottom with a tape measure. Place the end of a chalk line at the location and have a helper stretch it to the other end of the home. Snap the chalk line. Repeat the process on all sides of the mobile home.

Place a J-channel track on top of the chalk line and secure it in place by inserting 3 1/2-inch galvanized screws into each of the screw holes with a power drill.

Pound a wooden stake into the ground at each of the four corners of the mobile home. Tie a string around one stake and stretch it around the other three until you reach the starting location. Adjust the string up or down with a level to ensure it is at the same height around the entire perimeter of the mobile home.

Install treated 2-by-4 inch boards on the ground directly under the perimeter of the mobile home. Secure the boards at each corner of the mobile home with 3 1/2-inch galvanized screws angled through the boards.

Pound wooden stakes into the ground directly behind the boards every 4 to 6 feet with the hammer. Lift the boards up 1 inch and screw them to the stakes with 3 1/2-inch galvanized screws. Install the lower track for the skirting on top of the wooden board with screws.

Dig a 6-inch deep trench around the perimeter of the mobile home on the outside of the wooden boards, making it approximately 5 inches wide. Fill the bottom of the trench with 2 inches of pea gravel.

Put on safety glasses and cut the galvanized metal sheets until they are the same height as the distance between the ground and the bottom of the mobile home. Use a circular saw equipped with a fine-toothed saw blade installed backwards

Install the skirting by snapping it under the J-track located at the bottom edge of the mobile home. Secure the top of the skirting to the mobile home and to the lower wooden rail with self-tapping screws spaced every 4 to 6 inches. Continue this process to install skirting around the entire perimeter of the mobile home.

Fill the trench with additional pea gravel until it reaches the surface of the soil.