Serving Sebring and Highlands County
Sebring is the county seat of Highlands County, on Lake Jackson along the Lake Wales Ridge and home of Sebring International Raceway. Manufactured homes are common across the county, from Sebring and Avon Park to Lake Placid, Lorida and Sun ’n Lake.
Highlands County has a large seasonal and retired population, and many homes sit in 55+ parks or on lots near the county’s many lakes. We see a lot of older homes here with original straps and anchors that have never been replaced. A mobile home tie-down replacement brings the system up to current Florida standards and gives you photos to keep on file for your insurer.
Highlands County wind zone & storm notes
Highlands County is in HUD Wind Zone II. Every Florida county is in Wind Zone II or III, so even inland homes are built and anchored for high wind. In 2004 the National Weather Service noted that Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties took a third storm in six weeks when Jeanne followed Charley and Frances. Homes that rode out one storm can come out of it with loosened straps, so a check after each season makes sense.
Wind zones: 24 CFR 3280.305.
A tip for Sebring homeowners
Older Highlands County homes often still have their original anchors. If your home was manufactured before July 13, 1994, it was built to an older wind standard, and its anchoring deserves a close look before the next hurricane season.
Mobile home services in Sebring, FL
- Tie-down retrofits and tie-down replacement: re-anchoring your Sebring home to Florida’s Rule 15C-1 standards.
- Mobile home releveling: resetting piers and shims when the home has settled.
- Insurance tie-down inspections, including Citizens tie-down inspection repairs.
- Tie-downs for buying and selling, ready for the engineer’s foundation certification.
- Hurricane tie-down checks before the season and after a storm.
Communities we cover near Sebring
- Avon Park
- Lake Placid
- Lorida
- Sun ’n Lake
- Venus
- Spring Lake
- DeSoto City
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