Podcast segment (single speaker) explaining why one side of a mobile/manufactured home may receive little or no conditioned air. Speaker lists likely causes—most commonly a damaged or fallen crossover duct in multi-section (double-wide) homes—then also mentions clogged air filters and blower problems, and advises calling a professional with experience in mobile-home systems.
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One side of the mobile home. My mobile home is not getting any air. So what's going on? Believe it or not, we've gotten these calls, calls fairly common. So you know, it could be a number of issues. It could be a clogged air filter. My notes say issues with the blower, like you don't work block their phone. Ductwork is the one I want to focus on because that is the biggest problem I've seen over the years. So if you have a mobile home and it's more common in, in double wads or, or or bigger mobile homes than a single one, but the double wad has, if you're kind of looking at, from, from Google, if you look down on the mobile home, you know, it's kind of a rectangle shape. You have two tracks of ductwork. You have one on one side, one on the other side. Well, they're connected by what's called a crossover duck. We have seen so many situations in which that crossover duck has been either down, damaged, it could be damaged by an animal under house. But usually the culprit is that crossover duck, not it's connecting those two tracks to the air. So that's how you get one side not cooling and the other side is cooling. So blocked or fallen ductwork or crossover duct is usually the main culprit. Now with the mobile home, any manufactured home, the duct system is manufactured as a part of the house. So you have like a double, again two tracks of ductwork which are already prefabbed, pre made. We can't get to it, but we can get to the crossover that connects both tracks. So that's something to look at first is to make sure the growth server is not a problem. You might have had an animal or a raccoon or you know, a cat get under there and then my tore it up and cause some damage there. So a damaged or fallen duck is usually the problem, but it can also be a blower problem. The air filter just needs to be changed. Airflow is not good. It could be those couple things, but the most common one I've seen is the crossover duct being the problem. So double check that. If you have any questions, call a professional. Please get a pro out there to see what's going on with this system. We have done so many mobile homes and do so many mobile homes. We have a lot of experience with mobile homes and we've seen a lot of situations in which things are not attacked correctly or even explained correctly. So if you have any questions, we would love to help.
