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Two uses of the Permanent Wood Foundation System (the new name for the All-Weather Wood Foundation System) are ripe for promotion and development-basements for stick built houses and foundations for manufactured homes. Both uses offer benefits for the building and the manufactured home industries.

The Permanent Wood Foundation can save builders time and money, says the Wood Products Promotion Council. A simple system consisting of foundation stud walls made from pressure-preservative-treated wood and supported by gravel or poured-inplace concrete footings, the PWF is an engineered system that has been extensively tested and proven in the last 20 years. Recognized by all the major model building codes, it has been used in some 80,000 structures all over the country.

The system is especially adaptable for manufactured homes because the sections can be prefabricated, trucked to the site and in place a few hours after a manufactured home chassis is placed on footings and stands or piers. Other advantages are not hav-

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ing to wait for concrete to cure, installation in almost any weather and savings reportedly as high as 2590 over concrete or masonry foundations.

Additionally a manufactured home with a wood foundation is considered permanent housing in many jurisdictions. It also satisfies HUD/FHA requirements for a permanent foundation, meaning that a manufactured home with a Permanent Wood Foundation can qualify for a 30-year loan.

The second potential market for the Permanent Wood Foundation is the wood basement. The National Association of Home Builders rates livable basements important in the home of the future.

The Permanent Wood Foundation System is the ideal way to provide the desired basement, claim proponents of the system. According to the National Forest Products Association, the design, fabrication and installation requirements for wood founda-