In this episode I start to take out the old rotten rim joist and try to figure out how to put the new board into place. #diy #mobilehome #mobileflip #mobilehomeremodel
I have a lot of termite damage to mine that needs to be replaced as well.. A 1979 singlewide in SW Florida. Thanks for walking us through ur repairs - learning a lot !
Thanks! But yeah, I've wanted to throw in the towel many-a-times. I do wish I was done, that for sure but at least the light is at the end the tunnel. If real estate wasn't so expensive in my neck of the woods, I probably would have long ago. Ha!
Thanks for the video. Information like this is kinda hard to find on RU-vid. There are a lot of mobile home remodeling pages on Facebook that could use information like this, maybe share on there and hopefully grow your channel!
Appreciate that. Yup I'm on a couple of those pages. I have shared a couple videos and try to reply to people's questions with suggestions as often as I can. Thanks again!
Hoping you see this. I believe my mobile home has 2x4 rim & floor joists. I have walls to replace but must live here at the same time. If I were to use a 4x4 rim joist and make the studs a little longer would that be ok? My thinking is using a 4x4 it would have some sticking out to attach the floor to when I start on the inside. Does that make any sense?
Yeah, it makes sense but if you have to replace the 2x4 rim joist, just keep it 2x4 as it would be hard to nail through the 4x4 to get into the floor joists (I'm assuming you have floor joists that go perpendicular to the rim joist, unlike mine that are parallel). If you have floor sections to replace and can't get them to tuck up under the wall sill plate, just cut pieces of 2x4 for each spacing section between the floor joists and 'block' them up a couple thick so that you then have a piece to nail the edge of the floor to. Hope that helps. Check out 'Drews roofing and home repair' as he's a pro at that stuff. Great channel too. Thanks!
Thank you so much for the reply! Mine has the joists going the same way as yours. But they are all 2x4 instead of 2x6. Of course I have the oddball lol. I’m not sure on the date built or who made it
I'm not exactly sure but what I've heard is that you should not use treated wood on any part of the house framing. Exterior applications like decks and other ground contact places. Thanks!
You must have a lot of patience and dedication for remodeling this mobile home. Not much left of floor joist and noticed in a other video, roof collapsed also...
That's essentially what I'm doing in slow motion I guess but yes would have been much easier to get all the walls out of the way. I did just finish building all new roof truss's. Other than a handful of wall studs and the inner floor joists, it's going to be all new lumber. The one plus of doing it this way is keeping the electrical in place so I don't have to worry about getting new permits and inspections for that.
Ideally yes but since I had the interior paneling and insulation off, as well as it being light aluminum siding, the wall really wasn't that heavy and was still sort of being held up by the roof truss's, it did OK. I was able to manipulate them as needed. Thanks for checking out the vid and the input.
I'm not thinking it all goes away but I'm no engineer so who know's. I just think they re-calculate for the what this is, which is pretty much just a box on wheels. I see your point on the 2x6's but really they are not holding up the weight in long spans. The trailer beneath would be the thing that holds up the weight and there are wings going from side to side at about every 4 feet and near the wheels I think it goes down to 3' apart. They also engineered it so that the subfloor is part of the structural strength, or so I'm told, which makes sense as the subfloor needs to run up under the wall bottom plate over the outer rim joist. Plus as it was made originally it was super light with the aluminum siding and tin roof. Shoot, the roof truss's are literally only 1-1/2 x 2 which actual size is closer to 1 1/4 x 1 1/2. I'm also not allowed to put more than 25% more weight to the structure without getting engineer plans to address how the house could handle it. As in I'd have to do a lot of reinforcing to the frame and what not. Hope that helps.
