Abstract: A building system and apparatus for forming a wall. U-shaped channels and H-shaped or T-shaped members coupled at their sides by rigid links hold foam panels in a desired spaced relationship. Vertically oriented panels aligned and connected by T-shaped members or horizontally oriented panels stacked with and connected by H-shaped members are inserted into the U-shaped channels to form a structure of the desired length. Concrete is poured between the panels and members where it hardens to form a structural wall. The planar surfaces of the U-shaped, H-shaped and T-shaped members enable the members to be extruded, or roll formed, thereby substantially reducing member production costs. Furthermore, widely available conventional foam panels can be used, reducing panel production costs.

Abstract: A skirting system for manufactured residential and commercial building structures. The skirting system having a plurality of precast concrete panels which are disposed around the base perimeter of the manufactured building. The top end of the panels are restrained between two vertically disposed members extending around the perimeter of the manufactured building. The bottom end of the panels rest on and are restrained by a plurality of set blocks. The set blocks are held in position by anchor rods inserted through apertures in the set block and into the soil. The edges of the panels are sealed with a bead of caulking. Soil is then placed against the exterior of the panels to assist in restraining the panels and to give the appearance of a cast-in-place concrete foundation wall. The precast panels may include a layer of foam insulation and the panels may also include an opening for receiving an automatic vent. Rather than using set blocks, the bottom of the panels may rest on a frost footing or concrete slab.

Abstract: A skirt guard for a mobile home skirt having a skirt track on the ground. The skirt guard comprises an elongated protective panel. A structure is for retaining the elongated protective panel to the skirt track in front of the skirt. The elongated protective panel will cover a lower portion of the skirt and the skirt track, to protect against the damaging effects of a string grass trimmer that trims the grass.

Abstract: A rodent pest infestation prevention assembly includes a wall for surrounding a predetermined area so as to enclose items, a plurality of top and bottom slits in the wall for making interlocking connection with one another for fastening end portions of the wall together so as to make the wall a substantially continuous structure about an item, and at least one holder member for maintaining the wall in an upright position. The wall may also have a plurality of spaced apart holes formed therein. At least one mateable bolt and nut combination are installed through aligned holes to secure overlapped end portions of the wall to one another and thereby serve the same function as the top and bottom slits of the wall. Each holder member has a base and a pair of elongated pegs. The base has a transverse groove and a pair of recessed holes on adjacent opposite sides of the groove. The groove is for receiving a bottom edge of the wall therein.

Abstract: The subject matter is a bracket to a system for attaching a skirt to a building. The building is off of the ground and there is a distance between the lower part of the building and the ground. It is desirable to cover the open space between the building and the ground. This is usually done by a skirt. The bracket may comprise two or three pieces and can be attached to the underneath part of the building. Then, the skirt can be attached to the bracket. The building is often a manufactured house or a mobile home.

Abstract: A rodent guard for precluding the above and below ground passage of rodents beneath a skirt perimetrically depending from a manufactured home including an elongate barrier wall having an upper laterally inner flange for detachably coupling to the skirt and a lower, laterally outer flange for extending below ground to preclude any underground rodents from vertically passing alongside and beneath the barrier wall.

Abstract: A mobile skirt anchor. A plurality of concrete anchors are partially buried in-ground with each anchor having an upwardly opening channel to lockingly receive the downwardly extending mobile home skirt. Each anchor includes outwardly extending eyebolts which mate with eyebolts of an adjacent anchor with the eyebolts secured together by means of a rod interlocking adjacent anchors together deterring animals from tunneling beneath the skirt.

Abstract: A molded rectangular panel for use as skirting on a mobile home or the like, comprising a panel having a raised and detailed masonry surface, a portion of masonry surface adjacent one end of the panel terminating along a line which constitutes a cutline or a line of severance for that end such that a given panel, when the end is severed along the cutline, can be placed in overlapping relationship with an adjacent panel of the same design such that the interruption of the masonry pattern appears to be avoided.

Abstract: A continuous skirt to surround and close the space beneath an elevated building or as a barrier surrounding the insulated foundation of a building is provided with a series of releasably interconnected panels wherein the interlocks therebetween include reverse bends and a corrugation. The interlocks are hidden to provide a rigid connection to resist separation of the panels which connection is aesthetically pleasing when viewed from either side. By providing different colors on each side of each of the panels, the skirting is reversible, thereby reducing dealer inventory.

Abstract: A framework for extending around the lower periphery of a trailer house of mobile home, including corner posts and intermediate posts which are adjustable in length. Upper, lower and intermediate links interconnect the upstanding corner posts with the intermediate posts to form a framework. Plywood, sheet metal or other converings are then connected to the framework to seal the area below the trailer house from the outside atmosphere.

Abstract: A skirting system for enclosing an air space beneath a mobile home is provided and consists of a plurality of insulation material panels that are fitted into upper and lower tracks with VELCRO between the panels to resist separation so as to make it cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Corner members are also installed to finish the skirting system into a streamlined and attractive product.

Abstract: A foundation system is provided for permanently installing manufactured homes on footings set into the ground. Vertical support members are mounted on the footings at ground level. Attached to the top of each vertical support member is a vertically adjustable load bearing plate which provides support for the frame of the house. The bearing plate includes means for engaging a longitudinal frame member on the underside of the house to anchor the house securely to the footing. In addition, the foundation system includes overlapping corrosion resistant fiberglass panels attachable to the base perimeter of the house. The panels are constructed with vertical ribs to provide strength for defining a retaining wall against backfilling around the outside perimeter of the house.

Abstract: A framework for extending around the lower periphery of a trailer house of mobile home, including corner posts and intermediate posts which are adjustable in length. Upper, lower and intermediate links interconnect the upstanding corner posts with the intermediate posts to form a framework. Canvas, plywood, sheet metal or other coverings are then connected to the framework to seal the area below the trailer house from the outside atmosphere.

Abstract: A concrete skirting system for a prefabricated structure, such as a modular prefabricated home, comprises a plurality of rectangular precast concrete skirt modules. Each module consists of a rectangular panel extended upward from an integral footing. The panel is of thin, reinforced concrete construction with integral ribs on the inner panel surface which faces into the crawl space beneath the structure. The modules are provided with rabbeted side edges which form a rabbet joint when adjacent modules are installed beneath the lower peripheral edge of the structure. A concrete mold is provided to produce the precast modules.

Abstract: A tornado shelter, specially adapted for use with mobile home lots. The shelter is an underground enclosure defined by an annular sidewall and a top and bottom. The top of the enclosure has an entrance and egress passageway in communication with both the enclosure and the bottom of a mobile home. The passageway is surrounded by a flexible sidewall which is moveably attached to the top of the underground disclosure and the bottom of the mobile home. An associated collapsible stepladder allows convenient and egress. When the mobile home unit is moved, the passageway sidewall may be removed, and the shelter sealed until a new unit is moved in place.

Abstract: An improved skirting assembly for mobile homes or other elevated buildings is provided which has specialized connectors between the skirt and building permitting up and down travel of the skirt, and an upper covering channel completely free of connection to the building so as to accommodate any degree of skirt movement. In preferred forms, the skirt includes a plurality of endwise interlocked panels operably connected to the building by means of connection structure such as a bracket matingly and slidingly receiving one of the interlocking flanges of a panel; the corresponding flange on the adjacent panel overlies and slidingly receives the bracket so as to conceal the latter while achieving the desirable sliding connection. In other forms, a slotted clip (or a slot provided in the skirt panels themselves) is employed to obtain the sliding connection without the need to affix the upper covering channel to the building.

Abstract: Skirt construction for mobile homes which includes a series of individual panels, interconnected at their vertical edges, and rod members connected at their upper ends, extending downwardly through the connections of the panels and into the ground to prevent lateral displacement of the panels, yet permitting relative individual movement of each when the ground heaves or settles.

Abstract: Wall assemblies useful for a wide variety of different applications can be economically constructed utilizing extruded polymer panels shaped so as to have sloped positioning walls located adjacent to interlocking connecting elements at their side edges. The connecting elements are shaped so that the connecting element along one side edge of one panel can be pushed into engagement with a connecting element along another side edge of another panel through the use of a tool pressing against the adjacent positioning walls when the side edge of the first of the panels is located over the side edge of the other panel.

Abstract: A decorative skirting panel system for mobile homes and the like is formed with adjacent panels having a vertically slidable side edge interlock wherein a particular panel may be easily removed for replacement, repair, or access without detachment of adjacent panels. The panel is preferably formed of expanded polystyrene foam and is provided with an exterior surface simulating masonry such as brick, stone, tile or other such construction material. The side edge interlock is of a V-shaped tongue-and-groove construction. This configuration provides a minimum surface area for a given width and depth of tongue and groove, thereby reducing friction and facilitating the removal or insertion of a panel by vertical sliding movement. The V-shaped tongue and groove is especially well suited to this application since it is not prone to binding in the case of dimensional inhomogeneities and the like.

Abstract: Adjustable means for mounting skirting panels about a mobile home which may include a rigid mounting socket to be secured to the mobile home, a longitudinally adjustable stud, and a combined sleeve and base stake slidably mounted on the stud and fixedly secured to the stud after the base stake is first driven into the ground while so mounted, to fix the stud and sleeve relative to the ground.

Abstract: Retractable skirting for selectively enclosing the space between the floor and ground of a structure supported above the ground surface. The skirting includes a plurality of panels mounted for vertical reciprocating movement between a first position in which the panels are stored within storage space defined in the structure side walls and a second position in which the panels are lowered into ground contact. The skirting is particularly applicable to mobile homes in which the storage space may be defined by the mobile home wall and exterior siding. The skirting panels are stored for travel and lowered when the mobile home reaches a stationary site. The panels are entirely concealed during travel in a storage space that provides maximum ground clearance for the mobile home.

Abstract: Skirting which is utilized around the base of a mobile home or a similar statically supported trailer and which includes a plurality of vertical panels interlocked at corresponding overlapping side edges in a manner which prevents separation of the panels during their vibratory movement due to the wind.

Abstract: An all wood foundation for mobile homes is provided upon which the mobile home can rest in a semipermanent installation. A plurality of composite wood beams of pressure treated lumber are mounted directly on a gravel support bed beneath the mobile home transversely of the length thereof with the longitudinal I-beams of the mobile home resting on the beams. A top plate of the beam is extended at either side to the edges of the mobile home for supporting a decorative wooden skirt which extends from the ground to the base of the mobile home.

Abstract: A skirt for mobile homes and the like, the skirt comprising substantially rigid sheet material, preferably cold rolled or cold bent sheet aluminum and comprises a top panel consisting of three separate sheets held together by a bridge across the top which top bridge is anchored by fasteners to each of the top sheets. The skirt also comprises a bottom panel consisting of at least three separate bottom sheets anchored together by a bottom bridge using fasteners. The top and bottom panels taken as a whole comprise three U-shaped telescopically related top to bottom segments which are vertically slidably interlocked one segment with the next so that the top panel and the bottom panel may be relatively telescopically displaced thereby changing the overall vertical effective length (height) of the skirt. By anchoring the skirt in depending relation at the periphery adjacent the floor of a mobile home, the skirt is caused to span the distance between the bottom of the mobile home and the ground.

Abstract: A skirting side panel for mobile homes and the like is formed of a sheet of fused polystyrene beads and a coating of water based paint on one surface thereof. The sheet is molded with a plurality of raised portions on one surface providing a masonry appearance, such as mortared slump stone. Opposite side edges of the sheet have spaced projecting portions which interlink with corresponding edges of adjacent sheets to form a continuous skirt. Moreover, the polystyrene beads define cavity interstices on the masonry surface simulating the surface cavitations normally found on masonry blocks.

Abstract: Mobile home skirting is disclosed comprising a top track, a bottom track and a plurality of panels in said tracks, each track having a front wall and a back wall, .[.each panel having a major portion forming a front wall thereof and a minor portion forming a back wall thereof,.]. said panels arranged in edge overlapping and independently vertically slidable relationship to each other when disposed in said tracks with the front and back walls of the panels in contact, respectively, with the front and back walls of said tracks, the front wall of each panel and the front wall of .[.each.]. .Iadd.at least one .Iaddend.track .[.both.]. being formed with mutually engageable locking means for retaining said panels in said tracks, the back wall of each panel and the back wall of each track .[.both.].