Terms of Use
Effective August 24, 2026.
Haverlane is a reading site about the plumbing inside mobile and manufactured homes. Nothing is sold here, no account exists, and no signature gets collected. The trade for free reading is the set of conditions below, and they are live the second you open one.
Haverlane publishes, and that is all it does
This publication covers water heaters listed for manufactured housing, heat tape, belly wrap, skirting, shutoffs, and the winter trouble that arrives with all of it. Haverlane is not a plumbing contractor, nor a dealer, a manufacturer, a community operator, or a government agency. Reading a page, printing one, or dialing the number starts no professional relationship with us.
The phone line, and who pays whom
Calling (800) 555-0176 costs the caller nothing. The voice that answers belongs to a licensed plumbing partner who treats manufactured housing as ordinary work, not to a Haverlane employee. A call that ends in a booked job can pay Haverlane a referral fee, an arrangement itemized in how the site earns its keep. The money moves between the partner and this publication, and your quote is never raised to cover it.
Everything after the connection sits with the two of you: scope, price, parts, schedule, the warranty on the repair, and any argument about any of it. Haverlane signs no work order, inspects no crawl space, supervises nobody, and cannot be held to how a job lands. Ask for a license number and proof of insurance before anyone slides under the home, then confirm both with your state board. If the home sits on a rented lot, read the community rules as well, because some parks decide who may touch the riser and the shutoff at the lot line.
That line exists for people with plumbing trouble. Robocalls, pranks, invented service requests, and calls meant to harass a partner all count as misuse, and access can be cut off for it.
Nobody here has crawled under your home
Articles, checklists, part sizes, and price bands on this site are research written for manufactured-home owners in general. They are not plumbing advice for your home, and they are not legal, insurance, tax, or code-compliance advice either. A 1974 single-wide sitting on piers in the Texas panhandle and a 2019 double-wide on a permanent foundation in Michigan share a category and almost nothing else. Pipe material, water heater footprint, vent path, and the code that governs all three will differ.
Use what you read to size up a problem and to judge a quote. Anything you then try with your own hands is yours to own, risk included, and only as far as your skill actually reaches. Where a page says a job needs a licensed pro, that sentence is doing real work: read it as the far edge of the DIY portion.
Unsure which side of that edge your problem sits on? Describe it out loud on the phone. The call is free, and the plumber who picks up has been under homes like yours.
Gas, propane, and 240 volts stay with a licensed pro
One carve-out is absolute, and no page on this site overrides it. Fuel gas and electrical work in a manufactured home belongs to licensed professionals holding the credential your state requires.
That covers the LP or natural gas line and its fittings, any conversion between the two fuels, the burner and sealed combustion path of a water heater or furnace, the roof jack and the vent carrying exhaust out, the 240 volt circuit and the elements behind an electric heater's access panel, and bonding and grounding at the panel. It reaches heat tape too, wherever a circuit is involved: cable rated and listed for the pipe it wraps, plugged into a protected receptacle, never lapped over itself or buried under insulation, and never fed by a household extension cord strung along the underbelly.
If the home smells of gas or propane, get everyone out first, pets included. Flip no switch, light nothing, and make the call from the yard or a neighbor's step, to 911 and to the propane supplier or gas utility, in whichever order you reach them. A sounding carbon monoxide alarm means the same exit, then the fire department. Standing water touching wiring or an appliance means the power stays off until an electrician says otherwise. Emergency responders outrank every word published on this site.
Published as is, with no promises attached
The site arrives as it is and as it happens to be available. Software produces the first draft and a person then verifies every figure against the source printed next to it. The editorial policy lays out that sequence, plus the way a correction is entered and dated. Careful is not the same as guaranteed. National price bands drift, manufacturers retire models, HUD guidance and state code get amended, and a part that fits one home refuses to fit another built the same year. Haverlane warrants none of it: not accuracy, not completeness, not fitness for the repair in front of you, and not that these pages stay online or stay free of glitches.
Where a link takes you
Pages here cite outside sources so a claim can be checked at its origin: HUD, the federal construction standard as posted in the eCFR, the Census Bureau, energy figures from the EIA, state licensing boards, and manufacturer support pages. Those destinations belong to other people. What they publish after our citation date, whether they stay reachable, how they track visitors, and what their own terms demand are all theirs to manage. A citation is never an endorsement of the rest of what sits on that site.
Our words, our diagrams, and what you may do with them
Copyright in the writing, the cost tables, the plumbing diagrams, and the image files on these pages is held by the publisher, to the extent the law allows.
Welcome without asking: reading, bookmarking, mailing a link to a neighbor, printing a page or a supply diagram to carry under the home while you work, and quoting a short passage with credit and a link back.
Written permission first: republishing a page whole or nearly whole, pulling the site into a scraped database or a training corpus, redrawing our supply, drain, and vent schematics as somebody else's artwork, selling reprints, or dressing our price research up as a contractor's own numbers. Probing the site's infrastructure or trying to knock it over belongs in that same column.
The ceiling on what we owe
Indirect, incidental, consequential, special, and punitive damages fall outside what Haverlane and the people running it will answer for, as far as the law allows. The exclusion reaches a split supply line, a soaked floor, ruined belly wrap, lodging paid for while a home dries out, and any bill from work a partner performed. Should a sliver of liability survive all that, it stops at whatever you have paid Haverlane for access, and that figure is zero.
Texas law, and where an argument gets heard
The publisher works from Texas, so Texas law governs these terms and any claim growing out of use of the site, with the conflict of law rules that might point elsewhere set aside. A disagreement email cannot settle belongs to the state and federal courts seated in Texas, and reading on means accepting that venue.
Edits to this page
These terms get revised as the site grows, and the effective date at the top moves when they do. Reading after a revision counts as accepting whichever version is posted; nothing gets mailed out, so the live text is the text that binds. Questions about any paragraph here go to hello@haverlane.com, and the phone line stays staffed around the clock for plumbing that will not wait. Two companion documents sit beside this one: what happens to reader data, in the privacy policy, and how the pages are built to be usable, in the accessibility statement.