According to HUD, dry stack CMU is allowed.
Reference: http://www.pathnet.org/sp.asp?id=1003
for the Manufactured Homes Installation Training Manual.
It is a pretty good document representing practices and engineered
solutions. HUD sponsored this and participated in the development. The
Manufactured Homes Insititute also participated.
Regards,
Harold Sprague
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordan Truesdell, PE"
><seaint1@truesdellengineering.com>
>To: <seaint@seaint.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:42 AM
>Subject: Manufactured housing foundations
>
>
>>Is anyone out there familiar enough with the PFGMH to know if there are
>>any interpretations or modifications which allow the use of unmortared
>>(dry stacked) CMU piers? Also, is there an interpretation which allows the
>>exterior of the piers to be covered in a cementitious compound in lieu of
>>mortared bed joints?
>>
>>--
>>Jordan
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