Mobile Home Flooring Issues. mobile home remodeling 

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The previous owner of my mobile homes would just put another layer of subfloor on top and old layer of subfloor whenever something would get squishy. In some places I have 3 layers of subfloor with with Linoleum in between. Each time I remove a layer of subfloor to get down to the joists the smell of rotted subfloor and trapped moisture/ mold is a treasure. Totally agree never ever ever put a sub floor on top of another sub floor.

I think it's always best to tear out entire damaged floor system and install completely new floor system. In the end, customers will enjoy it. It costs, but it's the right thing to do. I e been doing floor system repairs and complete replacements for over 40 years. It's how I roll and what I do. When I say "Drew is Pro", I know. Only Pros get the jobs done right!

When I ordered my Commodore 14 X 76 home back in 1992, I upgraded everything to 16 inch on center - "Floor Joists - Outer Walls and interior walls", all 16" on center. My outriggers are 3 feet from the frame on both sides; 30 years later; no problems. I removed the old metal sheathing and installed OSB panels on the outside and installed vinyl siding, then removed all of the thinner drywall, re-insulated everything, installed new Pella windows, new doors, and re-drywalled everything with 1/2 inch Sheetrock, I even bumped-out the wall 1 foot where every new window was located. 30 years old and no problems with sagging. If you don't specify certain things like 2 X 4 interior walls and everything at 16" on-center, you will defiantly get everything at 2 foot on-center, and 2 X 3 interior walls.

Great job, thanks for sharing!

Thank you I am in the process of fixing soft spots in my sup floor and was going to lay a new subfloor over the old one 🤷🏼‍♀️ I have never done this before, watching your videos and learning. 🤞🏼I do it right .

Here's a tip, I found that if you use a toe-kick saw, you can get right up to the walls and take out the old flooring, that way you don't have a 5,6 inch strip next to the walls to patch up!!

Hi Drew and CREW.. ur videos encouragement. 2/14/23.

Thanks for answering my call and letting me kick a couple ideas off of you! Appreciate it 🙏 💯 🙌

It would be really nice if you could give a range of repair estimates for these projects for those who are thinking of doing repairs like you show. For example, we can't tell if this is a $2000 job or a $5000 job. For many of us on a budget we don't want to start a repair and then find our budget is only half or less of what it really takes. Thanks and good work and explanations.

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Another great video Drew hope you get the job ! And I know you both will put it right

You always get my thumbs up!!!

Great videos , I have learned a lot.

Keep up the great videos

Awesome viedos, big time fan here Shout out, you two guys crushed it, that dude needs a raise lol. Definitely a genius on the mobile home roof repair. I've been managing 55 and older parks for the last 19 years, unfortunately people die when there old, and nobody steps up and pays the lot fee or probate ties it up. I inherit in 120 days a abandabent clear title, my job requirements include all rentavations. And thats when eyes open. I'm amazed how people live not knowing, possibly they do. My story setting is in the Akron Canton, Ohio area And im 61 years old, so its not a easy go at it 7 days a week like the early days. Only 1 of a thousand humans would do what we do. If you call for help a electrician for plunbing, furnace repair, roofing, as soon as you say Lot number, nah we don't do mobile homes, or TRAILERS. I had to learn everything. And surprised everytime. I'm guessing if I would do viedos like your team does the first segment would focus on - I'm here, because its really bad, you know Why? This is what not to do! If you don't know what to do, don't try it, it's a waste of energy, time, possibly or probably get injured, end up with new tools you'll never use again, oh yeah , embessment.... PEOPLE!! FIND a Mobile Home Pro, like this company. That knows how much shit happens as soon as you open the door cuz the more you dig the more mold and nasty ass wood rot that makes and keep you sick that will lead to death. If my transmission on my pick up went out yesterday i dare you to dream it, good morning Katie we should take apart the transmission and do it are self ? Peace.

You are so great, I am so happy that you are in North Carolina and I hope you can help me with my mobile home please thank you.

My sub-floors are 3/4" OSB, with a slight lamination on the top side of the panels, everything was glued to to the floor joists and heavily secured with 2" glue coated staples. None of that cheap Flateboard "sawdust" crapp. I had a miserable time separating a couple sheets of it from the floor joists when I pushed some of the walls out. My kitchen is about 17 foot wide, my living room is at 16 foot wide, and my office comes in at around 16.5 feet wide. I re-did everything, electrical, drywall, windows, insulation, doors, new cherry cabinets, sinks, faucets, luxury vinyl tile in the kitchen and bathrooms, 6-panel interior doors, new aluminum roof-over with a 7 inch overhang and 6 inches of open~cell insulation board under the aluminum. I have about $17,000 in the materials for the remodel, and the roof cast me $6,850.. I glued and screwed everything, and I would guess that I used about 50 tubes of construction adhesive and maybe 2000 screws of various sizes. I glued all of the outer OSB sheathing to the wall studs with coated screws, then used 2 coats of primer over the OSB, then taped every seam, wrapped the home with Tyvek, then installed something called "Fullback Hurricane Rated - insulated Vinyl Siding". I still have some work to do; and it's a slow painful process doing all of this work by myself - - - In my spare time..

The mobile home manufacturers definitely pulled a fast one on homebuyers back in the day!

That’s what’s happening to my 1960 single wide but has original floors besides spots here and there. The bottom sills on the outside are bad so we’re fighting those as well.

You do good work Good work Brother! No BS kinda guy..and you don't hide shit! keep on keepin on Brother!

This was a great video very informative I also have a trailer with a build on roof they did before I bought having sag problems on the outside walls gonna built the underpinning wall like you did

Again putting cage out.. skunks possum and cats. 35 cats, 15 skunks, 2 possum and a racoon in two week's. Northern California USA 🇺🇸... 🙏

My home is worse than this. Its insane but with your videos I'm gonna try

I used to use a portable power planer set just deep enough to remove the glued particle board residue and smooth out the floor joists, after removing the thousands of staples first!

That's how people will do you. They come in and mess up your floors and you have to pay somebody else to fix it. I really wished you'd come to Georgia. I already work 2 jobs but if I have to work a 3rd to get you down here to fix mine would be awesome.

They did my whole house like this. My flooring in some places has 4 layers of floor. Its unbelievable. That's why the ceilings look super short.

Never ever use a friend of a friend or you will not have that friend anymore.

Wow, that house is the prettiest tear down I've ever seen! That roof above and oatmeal floor just made that thing way too cost prohibitive to even both with in my opinion. Wonder if the owner feels the same way after the estimate you would have to give him. Easy to see why the last guy bailed.

Can you support the walls like you usually do by standing a 2x4 up to the ceiling and supporting it with a 2x4 across the ceiling and across the floor joist. See I watch what you do.

Looks like a lot of work!!, you guys are probably going to have to install support posts around the whole perimeter of the mobile home, unless it already has a block foundation! The cantilever of the steel mobile home trailer frame can't take the extra weight of an additional roof installation as this mobile home has !, great video, and good luck, have fun ! Lol 😆

Welp im redoing my entire floor... i bought a single wide for 2k, found some issues with plumbing and roofing.... but i watched this video after starting the floor and wondering wtf i am looking at... turns out I dont have short walls... i have 3 layers of subfloor with a hardwood floor on top. Holyyyyyyyyyyy. Welp im glad it was only a 2k house 😅 Edit to add after i watcherd you notice the header was cut off the doorway... just checked mine, same thing. Door already sits crooked but omg this explains sooooo much thats going on with the house. All starts with the floor.

I watched the entire video to get the estimate! What a chump I am!!!!

I grew up in a mobile home park in the early 90s, and our neighbor across the street had a 1977 Titan with a tall asphalt shingled roof-over. I have no idea when that roof was installed, but by 1990, all the floors were crowned worse than what's seen in this video. In the mid 90s, they had a carpenter replace the flooring in several spots - I believe he sistered some of the joists or shimmed the subfloor, either way, it flattened it out somewhat... but it only got worse as the home aged. By 2004, they gave up on the home (which was badly deteriorated anyway) and had a brand-new Schult double-wide built to replace it. Within two years, their brand-new washing machine let loose and flooded the utility room, destroying the floor which I believe was still made of compressed sawdust... I swear to god I will NEVER own a mobile home...

MY MOBIL HOME HAS SAME KINDA PROBLEMS. MY OUTSIE WALLS ARE LEAKING INSIDE TO THE FLOORS. GLAD I WATCHED THIS NOW I HAVE TO RETHINK MY ROOF BUILD I WAS CONSERNED ABOT THE ROOF WEIGHT. CRUSHING THE WALL N BREAKING THE WINDOWS

I just bought a mobile home in tupper lake ny and the previous owner was sadly too old to take care of himself or his dog so the dog pissed in the home in certain areas sooo much that the home is sagging in areas and the man sure loved to layer shit like a kid, my foundation is ok so I think it's definitely rotting wood I have to replace, he also had this fn shed he built on the back attached to the laundry room that was completely rotting so we took it off and found a HUGE carpenter ant nest!

Hey! Thanks for doing this. How would you put LVP over the marriage line in a double wide? I'm about to do that and I'm worried it'll sag over the gap. Should I put rubber/foam in the gap?

Drew, This floor needs a whole new redo, just like in your other video, plus need to go 16 on center and jack the ends up....

Sorry to keep making suggestions, but this place looks like it's going to be a gut job for the whole mobile home, walls and everything, including the front bedroom, and that bathroom needs to be reframed to put the sink in the bathroom, not the bedroom!, I would move the front door over about 3 feet, move the front bedroom wall out about 2 feet to allow room to remake that front bathroom a little bigger so the sink can be put back into the bathroom!

Alright, I've been in house construction, remodel and new builds for a while. Never really worked on mobile homes. Until now, my new house. I'm remodeling, I've gotten over halfway done with the tare out.. they put new stuff on top of molded sheetrock..it's insane. I've found 4 types of flooring on top of eachother. My 2 things I'm stumped on are...the edges are sagging and there's a bow in the center of the master bedroom. They put a metal roof on the old roof. I gotta get the sag out the edges. We moved it to my land, and leveled it once already..gotta level it again. Is that the best way to get the outer walls from sagging. Extra support? I learn as I go. I'm almost gutting the place. I'm fixing everything rotted and wrong with it. My other question is should I add extra beams and support under the house as my furniture is heavy heavy antique items..

People build the strangest things, my dad demolished buildings one piece at a time , he did a commercial building one time , had seven layers of flooring. My friends rented a place every time the bathroom floor rotted the landlord just put another layer, I’m 5’ 6” needed to duck so l didn’t hit my head on the ceiling. So you just see the weirdest things

did you ever finish this job??? would love to see that!

When you put in new floor noises, do you use hangers or just screw to outside 2/6

It's amazing what shady mobile home flippers will do around here. Some examples; putting new laminate flooring over a rotten subfloor, using Killz white paint to cover up water and mold stains on the ceiling (roof still leaking), and painting over rotten walls/paneling

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Will you come to Georgia?

On that weird layered floor… so, the bottom is osb subfloor, right? Then they put another layer of OSB down, later or something? Why? I don’t understand why they would do that. Maybe the original subfloor was damaged?

The ball you wanted to roll was down in the vent

Do you help in St.petersburg florida??

I'm diggin those snazzy socks! Lmao

Hi Drew, I need major repairs on my older mobile home, (I have cash =-)

Silly question but would a cinder block foundation to add support then taking off of the roof to redo it be a better option for that homeowner?

I don’t understand why anybody would do stupid mess like this I don’t understand I’ve rather pay good money and have it done right Tyfs hugs

ive seen the particleboard swell to over 1.5 inches thick under wall plates. it was all dry & been thay way for a while. i was not gonna dig all that crap out to put new ply sheets under the wall. the trailer was used as a duck camp & had gotten submerged into the ARK. river during a flood. a few years before... the whole structure needed a dozer & start over. but the owner agreed to my 1/2 ass way of salvaging the rest of the structure, as the flood waters , believe it or not, stopped even with the floor. the trailer had a nice built on room that was worth 4 times the shitty 1978 trailer it was attached to... me and my guys removed all of the old P.B. chips that we could, blocked all over the random placed floor joist with 3.5" deck screws. hung some insulation as best we could & put down 3/4" ply w/deck screws. caulking everywhere that was needed. i showed the owner the obvious other damage, a few concrete piers were washed way outta place.. i told owner ; MOLD WILL GROW, GONNA BE VERY DRAFTY IN WINTER, YOUR GONNA HAVE TO MONITOR YOUR PLUMBING LIKE A HAWK. .. he said he never really went into that side of the structure except for coffee pot & microwave... he kept doors closed... he didnt wanna just build a nice rear wall to the well built add-on. he just wanted to be able to walk thru... as bad as i hate to 1/2 ass a job... he was super happy , he had a floor that my 220lbs. self, jumped from end to end. he was a local guy so we took 4k of his insurance money, even hauled off the tainted debris. he kept the rest of the money in pocket. i hope nobody gets sick from the mold. the next little flood in that prone area is gonna take the trailer section... he probably build a rear wall with the next ins. money...

This house looks to me like needing to be scrapped and replaced by a new one. Surprised that such a wreck could be fixed.

Take a match to this one.

The buyers got taken. It's too bad folks don't do their research or get inspections from mobile home experts before buying. Most inspectors only understand permanent structures and aren't really qualified to assess these homes.

How many sheets would it be for 16by80 just in case I need to do it all myself brother

What is best SKIRTING.. pls.. Drew and CREW.. Northern California USA 🇺🇸..

With sub floor being around $80 dollars a sheet I can't imagine how much it would cost !

What do you use other than a nail gun and why shouldn't you use a nail gun?

That was a big messed up trailer I know you could fix it as good as new but I think it needs to be jacked up hooked up towed away It cost too much to fix it maybe you’re the best they know who to call

So how does one fix the sagging exterior walls that are sagging because of the weight of the metal roof?

Nice video but question, having brick or cinder block underpinning would that kept animals out and help the vents

I see I'll have to do 1 room at a time.... Prices are horrific!!

I watched you for the first time and I feel like I could learn a lot from you but there is so much wasted footage even on 2X faster I got bored waiting for the solution... Which never came🤷

Have you ever worked on a mobile home floor that waved from condensation?

Why did previous owners install a FLEXIBLE VENT DUCTS & LAY OVER SEWAGE PIPES. 😢. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 2/2023

@ 17:41 Remind the home owner to replace all that worthless grey polybutylene pipe as well. Otherwise he will have more flooded wet floors!

Marble test!

I feel bad for whoever decided to do all that improper work on that house. Because it seems like maybe they just had no knowledge of home construction. Maybe it was a over eager diy’er? And what is crazy is that by the time you do the math for the cost of the bad second roof and porch, the second subfloor, that floor, and the remodel that is to come…yikes. How can that little single wide be worth it cost wise

Just gut it and then re-do it or demolish it.

.. Settling or Sinking 🤔☹️

squirrels get thru the bag ??

cover exposed floor and sell it... unfortunately

God I need your help....

Why just not leave it..

Looks like you need air in your tires

😂 Dope just wants to waste a lot of your time listening to him talk.

I say its a tair down

What a mess.

my guess is this man never paid to get the home fixed lol.... way to much money and work for that spot

Dude talk about the sagging floor the whole video wining like a women

Had to click off your video account didn’t want to listen to a 20 min advertisement..first 5 min anyways