Chapter 15: Helpful Hints / Making Your House a Home

       Chapter 15 consists of tips or hints which can make the overall process easier or otherwise enhance a new manufactured home. This material applies from the set up process onward. For instance, it can be a tremendous help to provide garbage cans for the set up crew and insist they use them, and there will be leftover materials such as shingles and vinyl siding that the homeowner should save. After you move in, security issues, energy efficiency issues, and aesthetic changes the consumer can make to their home are covered. As brief examples, it’s important that the new owner change their locks, they may want to consider compact fluorescent light bulbs, and also replace factory mini-blinds. Many tips are related to saving money, for instance, installing ceiling fans, installing water heater blankets, or running the phone lines yourself. There’s even a tip for keeping water from running down the side of your house if you end up with a low-pitched roof so common on manufactured homes!

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