What is a Mobile Home?
A mobile home is usually a prefabricated structure, which can be often moved around as a trailer or created as part of a recreational vehicle. These homes may be built in a factory or prepared on sight. They are often designed to be movable, but can be easily fixed in a place, like a mobile home park, which allows the temporary installation and placement of such residential facilities.
Most local municipalities have legal requirements to move such structures from time to time. They have special functionality, which gives rise to special plumbing needs. They may have a different cosmetic look on the outside, but the plumbing in mobile homes has to deliver the same performance as that of a home. In fact, it has to have a better quality so that it can take the punishment that may happen with constant movements every few days.
Plumbing in Mobile Homes
The plumbing requirements in mobile homes depend on the specific state legislation, as well as the local municipality regulations. They may often change in different regions, but they always require a mobile home to be able to accept the basic utilities, as well as properly dispose of garbage and waste water, if it is collected by a localized system.
Most mobile homes have such setups, to ensure that they can offer living support, even they are on the move, in the form of having water and sewage storage tanks to offer off-grid living support. There are three basic plumbing elements that you will always find in mobile homes.
Here, we describe the important details of these elements (supply, drainage, and ventilation), especially how they are installed and maintained in mobile homes.
Supply Lines
Supply lines are important because they bring in water from a source and then provide it to all the water faucets and fixtures present in the mobile home. Since mobile homes may be placed in conditions, where the water may freeze during the winter, it is important to develop a system that allows for easy monitoring and repairing.