Zephyrhills Mobile Home Leveling Checking a Mobile Home Installer's License in Florida
Florida licenses mobile home installers through the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, specifically its Bureau of Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction. Verifying that license takes one phone call, costs nothing, and is the single most useful thing you can do before letting anyone put a jack under your home.
This page explains what the license means, how to check it, and what else to ask for. It applies to whoever you hire, us included.
What the license covers
Installation is the category that matters for most homeowners, and it covers the work done to a home on its site: blocking, leveling and tie-downs, as well as setting a home in the first place.
That last point catches people out. It is easy to assume the license is about hauling homes down the road and that a relevel is handyman work. It is not. The frame someone is asking to lift carries the entire structure, and the state treats the people doing it accordingly.
Florida also sets the technical standards the work has to meet, in Chapter 15C-1 of the Florida Administrative Code. That is where pier spacing, footing size, blocking and the anchoring requirements come from, and the anchoring side is set out in detail on the Florida tie-down requirements page. Anchoring is tied to the HUD wind zone, and Pasco County sits in Wind Zone II.
How to check, in order
- Ask for the number in writing. Text, email, or on the quote. Not a photograph of a wallet card and not a verbal recital.
- Confirm it with the state. Look it up or call the Bureau of Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction through flhsmv.gov. Ask specifically whether the license is current.
- Ask for the insurance certificate. The license and the liability insurance are different things and neither substitutes for the other. Ask for the certificate itself, with the policy dates on it.
- Ask what happens if a pier cracks a wall. A serious contractor has an answer involving their insurer. An unserious one changes the subject.
- Ask for the readings. A level check should produce pier-by-pier numbers in writing. A contractor who will not write down what they measured is asking you to take the diagnosis on faith.
Why this page is here
We do mobile home work in Zephyrhills and Pasco County, so run these checks on whoever you hire, our crew included. Publishing the verification steps does not hurt us in the slightest.
A homeowner who checks a license ends up with work that holds, and the fastest way for this trade to lose a customer for good is one bad job done cheaply by somebody who could not be found afterward.
If you want the price side of the conversation before the credentials side, the pricing page publishes the full tables and the cost calculator will put a range on your home without asking for an email.
Get the free level check
Pier-by-pier readings in writing, no obligation, and an honest answer including the answer that nothing is wrong. We cover Zephyrhills, Dade City, Wesley Chapel, Land O’ Lakes, Crystal Springs, and Plant City.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Florida actually license mobile home installers?
Yes. Florida requires a mobile home installer license issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles through its Bureau of Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction. It is a state license, not a trade association membership or a voluntary certification, and installation work on a sited home falls under it.
How do I verify someone's license?
Ask the contractor for the license number in writing first. Anyone legitimate hands it over without hesitating. Then confirm it with the Bureau of Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction at flhsmv.gov, and ask them to confirm the license is CURRENT rather than that it once existed. Lapsed licenses are the common failure, not forged ones.
The cheaper guy says leveling does not need a license. Is he right?
Setting, blocking, leveling and tie-down work on a manufactured home is installation work, and Florida regulates it. Beyond the legal question there is a practical one: your home weighs many thousands of pounds and spends part of that job sitting on jacks. Hiring someone unlicensed and uninsured means your only recourse if it goes wrong is that person's goodwill.
What should I ask for before work starts?
Four things: the Florida installer license number, proof of current liability insurance with the policy dates on it, a written quote with the scope spelled out rather than a verbal number, and the pier-by-pier readings from the level check. Any crew that objects to producing all four is telling you something useful for free.
Do I need a permit for a relevel in Pasco County?
It depends on the scope of the work and it is set locally, so the honest answer is to ask Pasco County Building Construction Services about your specific job rather than take a contractor's word either way. A licensed installer will not be evasive about this. If someone tells you not to call and check, treat that as the useful signal it is.