Oscillating Saw A Very Versatile Tool #shorts

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Updated 1-23-23 Oscillating Saw great tool to have. Hey guys, this is a really neat tool. You can have around your house or if you’re a repair man. It’s called oscillating saw. It oscillates right here real fast. All kinds of attachments. There is actually a scraper blade, so you can scrape up plastic or … Read more

Remove Nails From Trim Easy Way

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Remove Nails From Trim Easy Way

Updated 3-2-23 Using Channel locks, Phil shows you how to remove nails from trim without damages. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Messing with trim that’s already been painted00:23 Instead of causing damage you can…00:50 Little trick he’s learned over the years01:05 One way to pull out staples and nails without damage01:37 Channel locks are great for a lot of … Read more

Key Chuck Tool For Tightening Your Drill Bits #shorts

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Updated 1-22-23 Hey, guys, this is another little interesting tools called a key chuck. It’s to loosen a drill so that you can put a different sized bit in it. Do it one way or the other. And that allows you to do that. You’ll have to use a crescent wrench not crescent wrench, channel … Read more

How to Use A Texture Brush #Shorts

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Updated 1-22-23 This is what you would call a textured brush. You can do a lot of different textures. I’m going to show you what you use, a single one. They have doubles, but then you have to dump a lot into something larger than a bucket. This is you fit right in a bucket. … Read more

How To Replace Brick Mold On Doorway #shorts

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Updated 1-22-23 How To Replace Brick Mold on your front door so it will not rot. Hi, guys. This is a very common problem. And this stuff is what is called brick mold and brick would butt up against it and its finger jointed on this, on the doorjamb. You see, when I say finger … Read more

How To Mix Dry Wall Mud #Shorts

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Updated 1-22-23 Showed you the paddle early on, among other tick tocks. And this is the mud you want to put your paddle in if you got enough water. In this case, it’s already pretty loose, but we’re going to spin it anyway. You sit there and hold your feet on both sides of it. … Read more

Folding Razor Knife Get Double Use of Blades #shorts

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Updated 1-22-23 Folding Razor Knife Get Double Use of Blades Hi, guys. As a repair man, I use a lot of knives and blades, or I use a particular type of blades. This is a folding razor knife, push button right here folds up, open it up and locks in automatically. But there’s a button … Read more

Easy Way To Cover Screws on White material #shorts

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Easy Way To Cover Screws on White material

Updated 1-22-23 Easy Way To Cover Screws on White All right, guys. It’s something I carry in my truck door all the time. Got a white surface. I might not have a white screw. Or if I have a white screw, it might be skinned up, I can take this white out or in this … Read more

How To Install A Kitchen Backsplash – Ceramic Tile on a Kitchen Wall

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How To Install A Kitchen Backsplash

Updated 3-13-23 Ceramic Tile install in a kitchen. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Tile project with 13″ tile00:25 Want to make sure your pattern will match all the way across00:40 Putting a mesh boarder on the edge of the tile01:00 There are ways to have the tile right directly on the corner01:10 Material to hold to the wall02:30 Putting … Read more

How To Get Candle Wax Off A Wall

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Updated 2-23-23 How to get candle wax or crayons off a wall ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Got a stain on a wall where a candle melted a lot00:30 Actual heat gun and rag to get it off00:45 You can also use a hair dryer03:30 Crayons and things like that you can heat up and wipe off. 🙏 Subscribe, … Read more

How To Buy A Door Knob – Installing a New Doorknob

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Updated 2-22-23 Phil walks you through how to pick a cheap door knob at Lowes and make sure you have the same keys if needed. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Inexpensive doorknob from Lowe’s00:18 Three different choices00:30 If you want them to match01:02 That way they are keyed alike 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it helps a lot!!➤❓/ 💬: ask@straightarrowrepair.com➤ Follow … Read more

Jazzing Up A Bathroom in a Mobile Home

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Jazzing Up A Bathroom In A Mobile Home

Update 2-13-23 Putting Wallcovering on a bathroom to make it look better. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Putting paneling into a bathroom00:28 Back after pulling the trim and cabinets off00:48 Next need to drive down all the nails01:15 You can feel it if you run a hammer over it02:56 Starting on the side where the cabinets were, how he … Read more

Improving Well-house, Preventing Rot, Metal Install

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Improving A Well House, Preventing Rot, Metal Install

Updated 2-17-23 We’re going to install metal roofing material to make the well house look better and prevent the rotting problem. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Project to prevent rot on his well house00:49 We’ll start the j-channel at a 45 angle right by the door01:15 Cutting the j-channel02:15 Cut the notch out that lets him close up the … Read more

Alamo White Metal Roof

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Updated 2-23-23 Alamo white metal roof example, they we’re trying to beat the rain. So we didn’t video all of that roof. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Completed the roof and removing shingles00:10 There are other videos on the channel00:48 As soon as they completed that roof it started to rain01:23 You can do it 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it … Read more

Leveling Mobile Home – Relevel on a Doublewide Mobile Home

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Leveling Mobile Home - Relevel on a Doublewide Mobile Home

Updated 1-22-23

How to do a relevel on a double-wide mobile home. Phil shows what we had to do on this home. We always use 20-ton jacks. Never tiny jacks, you want the power behind you. When you are re-leveling a house you want to make sure the jacks and piers all stay level.

Here’s a link to the video How to make A Water Level to Relevel a House https://youtu.be/tiSVWJ5-m_k . They used to check their lasers with this type of water level.

Here’s the playlist for all our videos on Re-levels https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWjbVLzVnjvwVLswcuhIx5IudYu2LUCT

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00:00 Under a 20″ frame
00:24 Have set up the water level
00:52 Use colored water inside a clear line
01:09 This house is rougher than most, the underpinning has been pulled down
01:35 House has been there for at least 20 years. Phil recommended putting insulation between the joists.
02:00 He tries to use ceiling type insulation for mobile home floor joists
03:00 Moisture on the ground and no vapor barrier causes that damage
04:00 First you want to take the water level and see where it’s out of level
05:15 You set up for the first area you want to jack up
05:30 You need to know what you’re doing before you start leveling a double-wide or any home
05:55 How we are using the jacks to get the first side level
06:40 You want a 20-ton welded bottom jack to level a house
07:30 The fun things you find under the house
07:48 This is us introducing you to what all goes on when you re level a house, look for a playlist for more complete instruction
08:10 A quick rundown of how many re levels he did in just 14 months, and he’s got over 30-years experience
09:08 Onto the other-side of the double wide
09:22 Things he wants to fix or should be
10:35 What you want to watch for when jacking on the frame
11:40 Be smart about the frame, check for wrinkles and if they have welded it
12:41 Shows you how the water level works against the frame

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Hey, guys. I don’t think you’re going to be able to see everything. I see. But we are underneath the house, which is, I don’t know, I’d say 20 inches. The frame is 20 inches off the ground. We’ve set up our water level, which is right here. Well, I’ll have to show you how I make a water level that’s more rugged than the ones that I started out with, which were for ceiling grids.

Very accurate. We used to check our lasers with them, set benchmarks, and then measure up from the benchmarks to do because the ceiling is, of course, this one is made out of schedule 40 pvc fittings and now I’ll do a video on how you do that and then there’s a colored water inside of a clear line. It’s 50, 60 foot long.

That way I can basically go a hundred foot radius from the reservoir, which I generally put near the center. This particular house is rougher than some because all of the underpinning is pulled down, as you can tell. It’s kind of a paper covered and the moisture eventually pulls down, the animals pulled it down. Also, if you see right here, where would have been straps on the metal, they’re not there anymore.

They this probably second or third move for this house. And it’s been sitting here for quite a while. I worked on it something like 15 or 20 years ago and told them they needed to put insulation in the house in the in the floor and then cover it up. And generally what I would do is put insulation in between the floor joists.

There’s a place where I get it. Instead of getting the stuff at Lowe’s, which is more expensive, I get it. A drywall supply place where they put it in ceiling tile. So a two foot would be exactly two foot. So it would sit on top of the ceiling and you could insulate to ceiling that way. Whereas the stuff you buy at Lowe’s is 14 and a half, 15 and a half something like that cut down to fit in between the, the floor joists.

Well, a lot of times the floor joists are not dead on or it’s just difficult to get stay so you end up buying these wires to hold in between the rafters to hold that up and if you go with the ceiling tile type insulation you shove it in there and it just wedges in and it’s, it’s bigger than the opening and it’s the same and it’s actually cheaper because you’re buying it as from a place it generally sells wholesale but moisture on the ground because a vapor barrier is not there ends up causing things like you see right there where the moisture is getting to the floorboards and more that you can also see where they have replaced the floor.

So we are moving. What we have done is set this water level to that frame and then went around and checked. Actually, I am not going to take credit for my skinny, number one is not that I can’t do it and haven’t done it many, many times. I’ve been doing this for 30 plus years. If you count multiple states, but in 26 years in this area crawl all through these places.

So he’s crawled through and we give him credit for that. The thing we do first is we go and take the other end of that water level, which again, I’ll show you how that operates and how to adjust it and very simple. And he checked it. We, you know, with this area and we determine that one whole side on the side we came in on is an inch and basically an inch and a half to an inch too low.

And then the frame, this frame here which we are level two is pretty good all the way through. And then the one that’s on the second half, which is this is double wide, it’s pretty good except for just a little ways down that way. It’s about a half inch off and will probably take that up and then the the final frame way over here is toward the ravine side, which is a pretty big ol’ ravine behind us is about an inch and a half an inch slowly.

Well, fairly quickly, actually, it goes up and then it starts leveling out about halfway through. So we’re going to take that side over there up first. And that’s what he’s setting up for.

This is not me instructing you on how to do this. Be a much lengthier video because there’s a lot of things that you need to know before you and you don’t want to make a mistake because what happens is and I’ve not done it, so I’m not speaking from experience. I’m expecting speaking from other people’s experience and me come along fix.

But if you don’t stay level it will push. I don’t care if you have three jacks, it will push everything, all your jacks out of a level. So every jack has to be level. In this case, we’re using one and he’s we’re going to go up over there first and then we’re going to come over to the middle and we’ll go up that half inch.

And that way we will have more than half of the house level. Then we’ll move to the other side and we’ll go up an inch and a half over there. Now, not so he’s over there going up. Generally, he’s tells everybody, hey, we’re going up way. Everybody knows to keep an eye on their peers and keep leveling and putting wood in so you don’t lose what you might have if, say, the something crunches and settles down fast.

We’re using a 20 ton hydraulic jack, no bottle and tiny bottle jack the one I have is a it’s well over 20 years old it’s welded bottom not threaded in. I know that sounds like a picky thing but if you get one under a lot of stress not up and down but say, if you’re not, you’re having to jack a house sideways and I know that’s not something the general public going to do. It will break the bottom This one is showing its old age because it’s leaking oil and we’ll eventually have to get another one instead of paying as much as a new one.

For a rebuild. So anyway, this is what we have to deal with. We’ve already crawled over a dead carcass or two either brought in or just crawled in here to die. And it can be unnerving the size of the spiders, especially when Tim like he’s doesn’t like spiders.

And he says that’s an understatement. So keep in mind, this is not my telling you to go and tackle something like this. I want to show you guys a little bit as I go along and then maybe there’ll be a compilation if you pay attention to all this stuff. But there’s years and years of experience, and one year alone we did 44 double wides.

We did four triple wides, and then another. No is 150 double wides, 44 single wides. And then three or four triple wides, all in one in like a year and two months. So I had a crash course that sped up my skill level. I can pass on to you all these different tips, but I really would rather you turn it over to somebody that has the experience and the tools.

But anyway, I will show you what I know as I go along. And of course you can’t pick up everything I know in a camera. I can show you as much as I can. So we’re going to turn you loose from this video and we’re going to disappear for a little bit.

Here we are on another end of the same house. It’s it’s been quite a few repairs in here and not really my style for instance, the or the joints are that are not getting wood underneath them. Multiple boards to support over here where the board is not really connected right there.

I would have made sure there was something there to support that. Not so much for the pipe but for the that little bit area right there above is not strong enough to support much weight. And it’s a good idea to have a little that covers this joint so that there’s no movement right here between these two. So if you step on this side, it squishes down that side and and then make an increase in the flooring up above.

So generally, I would always put a 2by over here and tie the two of them together. So they move together but they did use plywood for the most part. And there’s this frame right here which you can see a little bit more whenever you’re jacking on it. You want to sit in the center right underneath this frame here.

So your jacket would be right in the center of the head of that. Jack would be right in the center. So it would jack up there. And you want to make sure that down here where you dig in your level you’re not tilted to push that frame and literally been the lip. If you try to set about here, it’ll bend the lip up and pop the jack out, a lot of bad things happen.

So as you can tell, oh, let’s see, right here, you see that bend? Most likely that’s caused by somebody jacking other than in the center over here on this edge sometimes you have to be conscious of the fact that they may have bent the frame or even welded the frame. So you’ve got to be smart about the frame. Look for wrinkles.

They’ll end up being wrinkles right here. You don’t want to set up in the same place. Encourage it to be in same place. So now we’re this area here we’ve determined it has got to go up an inch and a half, but we’re still check it as we go the water level is kind of a little more of a nuisance to deal with because of the lack of lack of underpinning to hold it.

Usually what we do is tuck it right above the well right above the frame and the friction of the, the underpinning holds it to the frame. Then it drapes down here and you can see the bottom where the water is and where we get to go up or down. And so what he’s doing is is taking a look and kind of holding it which is more of a nuisance.

Uh, and we’ll set up the jack to go up, see if you, I don’t know, see if you can see as we get closer. If you notice the water is showing, that’s where the bottom or the top of that ledge of the frame should be. And we’re going to take it up that much so that’s what we’re going to do when I’m jacked up. And then we’ll add to the block, the pier there. The pier and here. And that’s what we’re doing next.

Temperature Metal Vs Shingle Roof

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Temperature Metal Vs Shingle Roof

Updated 2-7-23 Comparison of the temperature of the roof between metal and shingles. I have a chimp, a chimp, a cheap temper temperature gun. So hot I’m slurring. And I’m going to show you the difference between shingles and the material that we’re using right now. I don’t know if you guys can see it, … Read more

Floor Damage from AC Unit Halted Here’s How!

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Updated 2-8-23 Phil is repairing the subfloor, water damaged from a leaking AC unit. In this video he shows you several little tips to make your work look professional. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Your floor joists in a mobile home00:50 Cable wire we need to watch for01:10 Interesting situation by the wall01:38 To help support the weight01:52 In … Read more

Mobile Home Bathroom Ceiling Repair

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Bathroom Ceiling Repair

Updated 1-22-23 Phil’s replacing the bathroom ceiling after he repaired a roof leak. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Bathroom ceiling repair after roof leak00:30 Taking the ceiling down00:54 Going across the rafters not with them01:13 Old drywall trick01:42 Put OSB in02:10 How to support the ceiling02:45 Using fast mud, cuts time in half 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it helps a … Read more

Prodex Reviews – Prodex Insulation Install Complaints

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Pro-dex Reviews - Prodex Insulation Install Complaints

Updated 1-22-23 What I didn’t like about prodex, two things ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 The paper on the sticky part00:40 Instructions only in Spanish, not English01:46 We show you how to do it video link below01:56 40 degree difference with the prodex02:30 Over all great product, we use it on all our roofs 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it helps … Read more

Prodex Insulation On Mobile Home

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Prodex Insulation On Mobile Home

Updated 2-1-23 What is Prodex, why would you want to use it. Why we usually DON’T pull shingles off. And an easy way to handle Prodex rolls, prep for installation. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Alternative to insulating your roof00:19 Not for vapor barrier, you could00:30 R-rating equal to 10″ batt insulation00:55 Lot of discussion online about putting metal … Read more

How To Use Shingle Removal Tool Lowes

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How To Use Shingle Removal Tool Lowes

Updated 2-17-23 How to use a shingle removal tool, little tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the tool ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Shingle removal tool00:19 With staples, you need to00:54 When the shingle are cooler01:15 What he thinks about the tool01:45 Watch your UV rating when doing roofs 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it helps … Read more

How to Change Vinyl to Metal Skirting for a Mobile Home or Building

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Updated 1-22-23

Metal Skirting the guys are installing skirting on a mobile home. They are replacing the vinyl with metal. Your vinyl skirting will last around 5 years and then will have little holes from weed eaters and chemicals.

They make metal skirting from the same metal that you use for your roof.

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00:00 Replacing vinyl skirting with metal skirting
00:14 Why you would want to change them out.
00:42 First want to pull off the top trim
02:06 Starting the metal
03:13 You can fold the metal to create your corners
04:15 Pushing the metal tight, and once screwed down, the wind doesn’t blow it out
04:45 When cutting metal, use your bottom for changes in the ground height.
05:05 Reason you want to level from the bottom
05:45 Cutting for a gas line
07:57 Cutting corner trim and installing it
09:10 When ordering material, always make sure you have extra

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Today we are going to be taking off the old vinyl skirting. It’s pretty good shape back here. But all along the bottom, there’s holes in it. And we actually put it together for him offered a better solution. And about every five years about all you’re going to get out and start getting all kinds of little holes where the weed eater hit them lawnmower, even chemicals will make it have holes.

So first thing we do is pull off the top trim, unfastened this case. It was so high that they put metal behind it, which you’ll see later. And they screw the top and bottom is still blowing out.

We’re gonna make it better.

Notice there’s a screws right here, little screws on the bottom. So that’s what they did to keep it from blowing out all the time, replacing that plastic with the metal, which the profile is like that it’s basically the same metal who put on the metal roof and it won’t blow out.

I mean, it has to have a high, high wind, and this is what they put in to support the skirting and keep it from bending.

And then as it bends, it blows out the screws in the bottom screws in the top. And they put this to keep it from going out because if you don’t look as it is the plastic material is, anyway.

So what I’ve done is take that off. And then I measured in this case somebody put plastic to keep it from halving to weed eat so much measure to the bottom of that bottom rail.

And I don’t want to go on tight because they won’t be able to get it in, so I went to about less than 60 inches. So I cut my piece of metal to fit in here. And because on this particular job, we’ve got corners, I didn’t go all the way out to the corners because the corners aren’t covered.

But you could literally take this and bend it right here: one rib wrap around, you’d have to cut a little knife around the corner, then your corner would be there, you wouldn’t have to pay for it.

But we’re going to make some kind of match the roof So and I slip it in the top and the back of the bottom rail is higher than the front if you put it right across the top of the front of the bottom rail will give me that level.

Yeah.

Push it down tight so it’s gonna be hard pressed for the wind to blow it out. And we’ll fasten that there let me have my screw gun right there on the ground reason that we level it was mentioned to me I should explain there’s another video, it’s like an hour and a half long, you’ll see every little detail but the reason we level that is if you don’t have a level nothing will be easy to measure to anyone saying the same now we measured this point here, and i made my marks here Here, I have a T square for drywall you can use anything straight like a four foot level. Straight across the top.

What I did was measure over to the center of it and then it’s an inch and a quarter. So by giving just a little bit of room, every quarter all the way around. I can either split it from here and cut across here.

But it’s tough to do. But it can’t be done. There we go. Makes a big difference.

Nothing’s exactly right, the new bottom will be up and down so much at once. So we’re going to do pull it over and see how that big gap it is. And then we’ll pull it back over like so get it in the bottom, slide it in and then back over. So the end result and still take a little bit of a gap there.

This sides fifty seven that one 60 here so I got 10 foot rake and corner should be able to get two out of this back within the that’s it.

We’ll put a couple screws in that. And that’s what it’ll look like. Because the material you’re ordering it you don’t want too little you want more than enough to make a mistake got it. No, that was pretty as I would do it this pretty way better not gonna blow out. Not gonna grow

Always Check Floors Under Tile In Mobile Home

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Always Check Floors Under Tile In Mobile Home

Updated 1-24-23

When working on the floors in a trailer, always check the under the tile. Whenever you have a leak, make sure to check the floor under the linoleum… You may have a much larger problem than you think.

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00:00 They are tired, late night wiring another house last night
00:15 Another bathroom, slightly unique shape
00:55 Tools you need and are great to have on hand
01:35 This is what it looks like under the flooring
02:00 The toilet has been leaking for a while
02:30 No leaks showing under the sink
03:08 An hour later
03:23 Show you how to support under a rounded tub
03:45 Plywood by the toilet rotted through
04:00 The cabinet was supported, which is unusual.
04:18 They use particle board because it’s cheaper
04:30 That’s quality, and you have to pay for that
04:55 Rounded tub to support
05:35 Want the board under each corner
06:08 Don’t worry about why the different size wood, just us recycling materials

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You have to excuse us, because we’re both kind of goofy. We stayed up till nine o’clock, 9:30 last night doing wiring, on a house somebody else did the wiring or fixing the plugs. And it took us a long time, put a new panel in. Anyway, we’re on the bathroom again. I imagine that. Slightly different shape than some. It has a round the corner tub that nobody uses.

It’s got a shower and I guess that’s what they use it for. Unless you have a tankless water heater, you’re not likely to fill that tub to stay warm in it. And anyway, we’re here to fix what you see, which is the obvious problems in the floor. And this is what they’ve done to get through. We’ll show you what it looks like when we pull the vinyl up, and along the way.

So you’ll need things like a sawzall. You don’t have to. You can do it with a hammer and chisel. The chisile is, and the hammer is always good to have do that no matter what. Screw gun, screws. Inch and a half and three inch. We’ll end up replacing the toilet in here because they wanted to. So, we’ll need a wax ring. Generally, you will need to allow for a lot of two-by-fours all along. And I, I’ve got two full sheets of plywood just for this room. So we’ll take you along with us.

Beneath that linoleum. This is what I look like. We have not broken anything down. This is what it looked like. And then it’s soaked all the way over here and all the way over there and kind of through here. They’re using the shower. So on the edges of the shower or over here, it’s been leaking down in there, but it’s looking like the toilet leaked for a regular basis. But we will open it up and see if we’ve got a water spray in somewhere. But this is really, really wet and it there’s no damage on that. So it can’t be like running off and then hitting that.

It’s got to be that the toilet was leaking. There’s no leaks inside here, that we found the floor in here. It’s pretty solid, actually. I don’t know how. So there’s no leaks on the water lines are not wet. The drains are not showing any kind of a leak, but it’s as wet as it can be. I assume that since this was the only toilet that he was using.

That’s what it is. So we’re going to tear all this out, see if we can find something else. But I’ll bet it’s the toilet just hitting that, and soaking around and we can wicking back like toilet paper.

Just about an hour later, you guys. Sawzall’s, hammers, chisels, pry bars. We’ve pulled all that off, cleaned it up against the wall. We’ll end up putting two bys along the wall and I’ll show you that.

Probably show you how I come up with ways to cut along a rounded tub and have support underneath that. I’ll show you how to do that. But it’s quite obvious that it was the toilet that was leaking. If you look and see how all of the board that was put in here to support it actually had a piece of plywood instead of particle board here.

And it was rotted through. You can put a hammer through it, but all this wood is just all soaked. And the toilet was leaning back that way, but it wicks back through that particle board all the way over to here. It got less and less as it got away from. There’s actually support underneath the cabinet, which is unusual.

So they were trying to do high quality, but particle board is just not the answer. Inch thick particle board is not the answer. And the reason they’re doing that, not because it’s an inch thick, but the reason they use particle board, it’s cheaper. They shouldn’t. They should use plywood, it will be laminate when it gets water on it, but it will hold up better.

And that quality and you pay for it, you know, it probably would cost them three or $400 more to use plywood and they’re not doing it. Shame on them, but we’re overcoming it. So here’s what we’re doing and I’ll take you along with us.

The camera. Oh, we have this round the tub, that it’s a question on how to do it. So what I’ve done, how did we get support under it? Is I went ahead and gave myself a lot of extra because I want to kind of go to an angle like so. And so, I told him like 32 inch board, and this is what this is and then I’m going to put. Some of it’s going to end up going underneath. Say that area. So I’ll lay it up there and then I reach under and market it with a pencil. In this case, I messed up, flip that over because I want that all the way to that corner. Corner to corner mark underneath.

So I’m going to say, No, don’t do that. There’s our angle. So he’ll cut there and there, then we’ll put screws into it and they’ll be supported It never had before.

With a lot of two by material in here. Please don’t worry about the reasons why I might have put different sized wood. It’s just me recycling. Like, for instance, 2x12s that came out of a shelf that somebody had me haul off that you can move with one finger.

It wasn’t put together, right? But two by fours are just fine. Two bys is definitely what you need. You have to a six is some treated, not treated. These are all leftovers from decks. But anyway we’ve got lots of support all the way around now. We’re getting ready to do the plywood.

Replacing Rotted Masonite Siding

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Updated 1-24-23

Phil and the guys are replacing masonite siding on a mobile home today.

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00:00 Replacing the rotted masonite siding
00:13 Tried patching with Hardie board
00:29 The other side of the deck was totally rotted out
00:40 What we’re going to do
01:04 Add metal flashing
01:24 The siding isn’t easy to find
01:40 Use the z-channel to make it look like a decorative belt-line
02:30 People might want to see what we’re doing
02:40 Put flashing in, plastic over that
03:10 We’re hitting the budget the customer needs us to
03:32 We have put everything back
03:46 We’re sealing everything up and will repaint the house

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Transcript:
This position that we’re in. Position, position is to fix. The masonite, which is quite typical amongst a lot of mobile homes siding, somebody trying to patch it up with a Hardie board. And this works for a little bit, but we had to crawl under here and support this deck and jack it up. Maybe I’ll show you guys how I did that to keep it from pulling away from here? It’s fastened pretty good on that side. This site is totally rotted out and they probably have rotting on the inside and they’ve about decided to have me redo that because a renter is getting in over his head.

But thank God he wants to help. What we’re going to do is take this trim off. Try to save it, may not make it looks like this is already rotted and we’re going to cut the plywood there and through here all and we’ll probably go all the way to that window, maybe not all the way, but close. And then we’ll pull it all the way down. And then I told Tommy that I would put metal flashing because that’s his idea.

And then plastic and then put a Z channel which goes up underneath, comes out and then back over the wood that we’re going to put in here. By the way, the siding is not exactly easy to find there. It’s slightly different. So when we put that other Z channel and other siding in, we’ll put a strip over here to break it up and make it look like we meant to.

It was always meant to be that. So we’ll take a strip, probably about as wide as this and go over the top of the siding and that Z channel so you won’t see it. And look like a decorative beltline. And we have it on this deck and we have it on another small side over there. Same problems. The water came off, drop down, bounced against the siding, soaked in, rotted out.

The deck dropped uh was bouncing didn’t have a support in the middle. So, I didn’t exactly put it in the middle. I moved it toward the backside some and then I put some diagonal braces. So it wouldn’t fall down the hill. Kind of folds. Uh, we come a long ways already without even looking at it, but we’re fixing to open up and see how ugly things are.

Realized hey, we got some people would like to see what we’re doing, at least to criticize what we’re doing anyway. That we put flashing in because the customer wanted to put some flashing in through and then plastic over it, which I did not have before. We put Z channel, which is longer on the top, comes out and then comes back down. That way the water run down here won’t run inside, but we’re going to be putting the strip of wood over that, of course around this. We mark the. The where the wood is on the material.

I don’t want to call it wood. You’re not going to get any splinters. This is paper and you need to keep it sealed. But we’re hitting a budget that we don’t want to spend a fortune. Tearing this whole house apart and all the deck. We’re trying to hit this budget, and we’re going to do it as nicely as possible. So if you look, we’ve got already got on with that and We’ll take you along as we do the strips of wood, make it look, dress it up nice.

So we went ahead and tucked these back. This one had to be replaced. We cut another piece out of the same siding, and then we put a strip. Oh, we went to the window like we were plan to do, like it was. Meant to be that way. And we’re sealing everything up and we’re going to actually repaint this house. So we’ll be sealing all the cracks in the nails and something you should do with Masonite every couple of years check them all out, but we’ll seal everything when we fully paint.

So be sure you do that on yours. SEAL all the nails and, in our case, we used screws and it’ll end up looking much better for what you have.

Mobile Home Metal Roof Replacement Part 2

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The second part of a metal roof install. Double-wide mobile home metal roof installation. Metal over shingles. Installing your foam, ridge cap, and then what we charge per sq ft vs the average charge per sq ft for a metal roof. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Need to measure for the ridge cap and foam00:39 Make a mark on … Read more

Alternative to Vinyl Skirting on Mobile Home

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Alternative to Vinyl Skirting on mobile home

Updated 1-22-23

Need an alternative to vinyl skirting? Phil shows you how to use metal siding.

And here’s the link to the other video https://youtu.be/DtCr_DQsYWo

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00:00 Showing an alternative to vinyl skirting
00:30 Can use metal skirting-metal roof panels in place
01:00 Pull off the top front
01:20 Be careful in the cold, the vinyl will snap
01:45 Start measuring at the front, leave room for the top front will cover a lot
02:20 Start cutting your metal
03:30 Snap in the metal, make sure you’re level-screw it in
04:40 Want to lap over your next panel
05:00 Cutting out the air conditioner lines, cut your sheet
05:30 Want to cut with a razor knife near a rib
06:15 Cutting for lap over on metal skirting
07:00 Cutting the other side of skirting
07:55 Install metal skirting shows what they have completed
08:20 Shows exactly how to install around the AC
08:43 Putting the panel together
09:00 This makes it to where if someone needs to work on the area, just unscrew and go
09:15 Each panel is its own access port
09:40 Close up of the ribs-that’s your venting
10:40 Anywhere you have wires, things to go through just need to notch the top front
10:55 Want to use the muscle in the legs to snap in the top front
11:30 Difference in ground, that’s why you measure from a line behind the top front to the ground
11:55 The metal skirting is resistant to damage.
13:05 Great replacement for concrete board
13:35 Video he mentions https://youtu.be/DtCr_DQsYWo

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Mobile Home Metal Roof Replacement Part 1

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The first part of a metal roof install. Double-wide mobile home metal roof installation. Metal over shingles. They have the roof ready for all the metal. You will also learn how to reuse a vent/duct, and tar like a pro. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Gathering up materials00:39 You don’t need slip sheets under the metal01:00 We’re not doing … Read more

Mobile Home Metal Roof Replacement

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Mobile Home Metal Roof Replacement

Updated 1-22-23

Double-wide mobile home metal roof installation. Metal over shingles.

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00:00 Gathering up materials
00:39 You don’t need slip sheets under the metal
01:00 We’re not doing this because we make a bunch of money from you watching
01:45 The people talking aren’t trying to help you out
02:15 Using screws, will tack off as much as possible
02:28 Wanted an overhang
02:45 12 sheets in 30 mins, to a vent
03:07 Right now, need to get under it
03:40 If we needed to replace the vent you would need to order it
04:30 We’ll tape around the vent
04:45 Make sure all the nails and staples are down
05:00 Multiple layers of shingles
05:40 We’ll replace the plywood, new felt paper, and shingle
06:00 Took out the old plywood
06:13 Vent/duct is back on
06:26 Cut V into the vent
07:48 Want to screw all the way around and then seal the vent up
09:00 Well flatten down, put tape around it
09:15 Putting tape for the tar, perfect corners
09:45 How you can save money on the roof
10:27 Applying the tar
11:26 Getting it off your hands or other things
11:47 Pulling the tape up
12:40 Need to measure for the ridge cap and foam
13:15 Make a mark from the peak and pop a line
13:25 Put your foam on the chalk line
14:58 The ridge cap
15:10 How you want to lap over the ridge cap
15:39 You want to screw down both ends first
16:15 That way you keep everything square
16:26 End of the roof
16:51 We did 3 roofs in Florida 23 years ago, they are fine
17:23 What we charge a sq ft for metal roof vs. what the average price is
17:40 You can do this yourself
18:00 All the maintenance

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Effectively. We started about 7:45. That doesn’t count the all time we took the set up and going to get metal, that’s hours of work. Well, we’ve got rain coming in on this particular metal roof and I expect it to be around 2:00. So we see what we can get done before two o’clock.

Which means we might go right through lunch and then eat lunch late. I had a lot of discussion, not a lot of one or two guys talking about not having the slip sheets and how condensation and everything could possibly get through and cause the roof to leak.

I’m going to say that’s a bunch of bull, but I’ll do a video separate on that. But I want you guys to know, then are watching these videos to understand.

I’m not doing this because I get paid a lot of money or something by you guys watching, and I certainly wouldn’t get paid if I told you the wrong thing. So the people that are being negative, if you notice, and there’s not very many, they don’t say anything positive. So in reality, they’re the same kind of person that might be criticizing Mother Teresa for not having a better career.

So I don’t I will help you with your confidence about how you feel about what I do so that you can know how to do it, because I don’t do metal roofs in anywhere but this area. About a two-hour radius. I don’t do it in Seattle and don’t do it. So all you people that are in whatever town take confidence.

The ne’er do wells always be there. And these things can be done. And I’ll do a separate video about how condensation happens and what you might do to not let condensation be there. In this case, shingle roof don’t need slip sheets, which is just another way to spend money and make it seem like they’re doing something special and they need talent.

Oh, we’re using screws and I’m going to tack them off, get as much metal on as possible, and then we’ll go back and screw it off and try to keep straight lines with chaulk lines and such as. Here we go.

I wanted an overhang because they don’t want water to run into the windows anymore, or do damage to the masonite siding this house is never going to move. If it had to be moved, then you could have to cut metal siding up because you couldn’t have the overhang. But we’re trying to hurry it up for the rain gets here.

Now, we’ve got 12 sheets up in 30 minutes. That are tacked off. Some are a little more than tacked off. We’re getting to a vent here. There’s probably for a bathroom since it’s not on the outside wall, and I’m probably going to reuse this. Well, I know I am. And I’ll show you how to.

Right now. We’ve got to get underneath it. Pull it up, and then we put metal and cut around it. And it smells like a sewer vent or something.

If we were to try to find one of these, we’d have to order it most likely. And I can easily shape this for looks without actually building too much of a curve in the staples and nails into the vent. We’re going to use the caulking, or not caulking, but tape. Great big vent.

“For a teeny tiny hole.”

But that’ll work. We’ve got to make sure that all the nails and down the staples are down all the junk out of there. In reality, we only need a hole this big. So we’ll get to you and we’ll show you all that as we come along.

Two layers of shingles looks more like 4 layers on the end, and they never did get it sealed properly, right here. While it moved. So, actually nothing, it was kind of… You would not want to step on this. So we’re going to replace all that. It’s at the point where we’re starting to get into the what you might call a rafter in the mobile home business. But it’s going to be right. We’re going to replace that plywood. We’re going to put in a wood around the cut edges and then we’re going to felt paper on it.

We’re going to put new shingles on it. Even though the singles are just there for vapor barrier, and we’ll make sure that it shed water like a regular shingle roof. And I’ll show you a couple of pictures. Here we go.

All right, we’ve took out the old plywood, put in two bys along the edges. Everything’s done with screws, no nails, staples. We’ve got the felt paper cut. We’re fixing to put that down.

Put the duct back on there, it was the exhaust fan for the bathroom and you duct tape it and use a nail gun like they did and cleaned up all the single stuff on the outside of it. And then I’m going to set it on the hole. I’m going to cut a V to the center of the ribs in both directions, on the outside of the rib to the in the middle. It’s a little tough over here because it’s got two layers. Which is odd.

But we are fitting the budget of the owner and it will not leak. Then when I do is I put a screw on this side of the ribs, suck it up, do the same down here. And then, I’m going to do the other side of the rib. That’s going to have to have more than one screw there. We’ll have to seal all that up, put screws all the way around it. Right beside the rib first. If I actually see a hole I’ve filled with a screw. I hate these screws.

Anyway, we’ll flatten that all down, put screws in it. Then we’re going to put tape around it for a nice clean border and we’ll put tar and we’ll pull the tape up and I’ll show you that.

Another an inch or two for the tar to bind to the metal. And the, and I want a nice clean look when I get through. So I make. All this as the edge, it makes for a square edge like an artist or something can do perfect straight corners. Usually I use a wider tape and this is what we had today.

And I’ll put the tar around it. And then I pulled the tape up. Which one when we had to replace the plywood and we put the felt paper on and shingles, then they’ve got this rich, the roof jack back on. I mean, you can put new ones on. I do quite often. This is on a budget. So he wanted to, if it were any good, let’s go ahead and save them like 12 to $15 a piece for the roof jack that is flexible and they do a good job.

But this one, really this is roof has had more than one shingle roof put on it, and the second one was leaking worse than the first one. Probably.

So anyway, I kind of do like I’m doing icing on the cake, which I don’t know if everybody’s done icing on the cake, but I had ex-wife who was a cake decorator, so I got to have some experience with that. But smooth it out so that water will tend to run around it and you can see how that forgives us. When it comes to the outside edge, I’ll make sure I’m pressing into the metal and tying it all together. And I go over all the screws.

If you have a tendency to get it on your hands a lot. Then you can wear latex gloves, anything oil base. You can use oil to take it off of you or anything else. So keep that in mind. You can use WD 40. And pull it off of your hands. Pretty good. Then all I’m doing is.

Got it on me.

“Put it on James.”

Put it on my guy down there.

“Oh, I see that ending badly. You’re going to end up getting smacked in the head James.”

Then I’m gonna put. What he do? Is this silicone?

“That looks like…”

No

“Taintable.”

Hey, this won’t work.

We’ve been dodging in and out between rain pretty much kept everything dry. And had no leaves. It had leaves before and it has no leaves now. We’re going to put the ridge cap back on. In order to do that the ridge cap in this case, is 11 inches wide. That’s basically the ridge, you can get them as wide as you want, actually. This is 11 inches wide that would be five and a half from center to center. But I generally go five because I don’t want my foam right on the very outside edges.

So, what I’ll do is mark on the peak. Don’t make pay attention to the metal and I’ll measure 5” on each side make a mark on the rib and then top line on both sides and then we’ll show you putting the foam on.

See we’re putting the foam on the chalk line that we made. It’s ah, what you would call closure. This is over closuer, and they make a foam closer that goes under also. But we don’t have any use for that.

It has a female side and a male side. So this is actually has sticky on the bottom. So it’ll set in place. The wind won’t blow it away, you can get it without the sticky. Say if you’re doing the ridge cap and you want to tuck it under as you go. We’re not doing that. We use the sticky and this is the stay uphill side of the line. I’m going to try to do both sides at the same time. So, all thinking for there. This keeps the driving rain from pushing up that ridge cap, once it’s fastened and snow from building up and then getting underneath. And then getting underneath here.

The roof is fairly deep anyway, but we’re not counting on anything as far as the metal we’re just using the shingles, we’re putting the metal and using the shingles as a vapor barrier, anyway. That we’ll show you when we get ready to put the ridge cap.

The ridge cap, so you want to lay on top of and be even a little beyond your foam for that stick out, and you’re going to screw into the ridges.

Now the way you lap over depends on what the highest visibility is. So everybody’s looking this way. You want to cover over this direction. If you go under, they have a tendency to see that edge same with vinyl siding and so on, so on. So we’re going to.

We think that most of the parking and driving is going to be over there, although this is so high nobody will ever see. We’re going to lap it over like this. It’s a line of vision to see that gap.

What I do, I lap over a couple inches anyway, sometimes more than that. Then I screw into the first rib and I go down to the other end. Screw it down.

That way, as I work it this way, it doesn’t walk one way or the other, all right? Then screw every other rib, you don’t have to do everyone if you want to. You can, but you don’t have to.

Here’s the metal roof. I’ve had some people, one guy say something, about a he had a roof that in Florida that it didn’t have the slip sheets. Which is just paper, sort of and said it got scratched and it rusted and he’s got videos to show it. But I’m going to suggest to you guys that I also did three rooves in Florida. Which two of them I’ve called up and said hey how are they doing.

Just since that guy said that. They’re all doing fine.

That’s like 23 years ago. I’ve not had any issues in 26 years. This is a metal roof to fit somebody’s budget and I know what’s irritating a lot of these guys that are watching these videos and this I’m going to put it out there: This roof I’m doing for $3 a square foot. The average price for a metal roof is 10 to $15 a square foot. I’m making money. Good money.

Imagine how much more money they’re making. So, look at this, you can do it yourself. so I’ve actually done one by myself several times just means a lot more ladder up and down. You don’t want to choose to be on a windy day and this is good.

The color got a 40 year warranty on the metal, on the color. A limited warrantee. And then you might know how long a metal roof last. The only maintenance you have are the vents. You’ll have to maintain the tar. I mean come up every two or three years and make sure that there’s no more new cracks, that you don’t need to fill in and in this case, you got dead trees that might fall and hit it all around. But this is the way to go. This will outlast shingles by a long, long ways. This had two layers of shingles and the last layer was 20 plus. It might have been more I don’t know, but it was leaking. So this is the way to go.

I promise you. This is you can do it yourself because you’re an American, not American’t.

Bracing Mobile Home Deck

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Bracing Mobile Home Deck

Updated 1-12-23

How to brace a wooden deck to a trailer.

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00:00 The deck was connected to the siding
00:22 Put a brace in the middle
00:42 We put extra support because the rim joist is rotted
01:10 Recommend double bracing on the side of a hill

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Transcript:
This deck was connected to that siding, and the siding was gone for about half of it. And the other half is doing all right. So instead of just going in the middle and normally I wouldn’t go more than six feet and this is less than six feet, but they did about 12 feet without a support in the middle. And we put one in, but they pulled it back from the middle toward the back to help support this back here.

And then we jacked up, put the four by fours in and then lag bolt through the two, the two by sixes on each side to support it. And then because it’s still not connected very well to the what they would call a rim joist. Which is the two by six that runs on the outside of the floor joist that’s pretty rotted.

Um, so we put braces so that this side would stay no matter what. So we’re supported back there and we’re braced, and that would be something I always recommend that you get when you do whenever you go on to a side of a hill with a deck, it’s going to want to go down the hill. So you want to put supports in no more than six feet at a time should be a support through, and then you ought to put some diagonal braces. And that’s what I was going to show you.

Mobile Home Metal Roof 8-2019

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Updated 1-12-23