Mobile Home Repair
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This job is improving an older mobile home. We put a ceramic tile backsplash in both the kitchen and bathroom of the trailer. In the bathroom, we rearranged the lighting and in general spruced it up. The trailer is one that we have been sprucing up for the couple […]
How to use a 60″ tub surround in your mobile home: In the video Phil says 54″, the tub is actually 56″. Sorry about that.
Hello Again Friends Discussions always come up about the advantages of metal to shingles. Hopefully you know the difference, but let’s look at this shingle roof. Lots and lots of individual components the three tab has three tabs, there’s multiple say hundreds and thousands of the pieces individual pieces. Each […]
Every once in a while, it’s your responsibility are to check underneath the sinks and toilet to see if you have water leaks. What you will need to do is: Feel on the water lines put your hands on the drain Don’t be surprised if you feel condensation coming off […]
You can finish the drywall of your mobile home and make it look just like a regular home. You can take those batten strips over each 4′ strip of the drywall off and put tape and drywall mud on those cracks that those covered up, and you can finish the […]
Do not be discouraged by electricians or other repair trades, especially electricians, saying that they can’t work on mobile homes because the electricity is not the same. It is the same. It’s just that the electrical boxes are quite often very different in mobile homes but the electricity is the […]
All those doors in a mobile home are quite often very, very fragile, and the jams on the outside edge are not like a house in they are made out of paneling. People get discouraged and say that oh this is just junk and you can’t do anything about it. […]
The Drywall if you have in a mobile home is normally 3/8ths inch thickness. So if you have to patch a hole in the drywall you will want to by 3/8ths thickness material. It’s much easier to finish the drywall if all surfaces are the same thickness, than if they […]
A few people will try to stop the wax ring of the toilet from leaking by caulking around that ring to stop the water from leaking out around the toilet. And it will stop it from leaking out around the toilet, what it does is hold the water there under […]
If you toilet moves around sooner or later it is going to leak. If it does you will end up replacing the floor because the floor will rot under and around the toilet from the leaking water. You can put plastic wedges called toilet wedges to keep it from moving […]
Ways to avoid expensive bathroom repairs. Probably be a good idea to take your toilet and put something between the tank and the wall, like a piece of wood. Because not only do people bump against the tank but they also have a tendency to lean against the tank when […]
Most people tend to forget that you have to do maintenance on you home air and heating unit, that’s any air or heating units. More times than not the air condition being central air or heating unit is neglected by the customer. The customer needs to understand that every […]
When you buy a new or used mobile home that does not mean you don’t have any home maintenance from that point on. It absolutely means you have the same responsibilities as in a regular house. Even if you own a regular house, you have to maintain it. As a […]
One thing to be careful of when you start painting around your cabinets like your kitchen cabinets do not put tape or be very careful when you put tape on the finish because it is paper thin and it will pull off when you take the tape off. And then […]
I thought I would post some pictures of the snow we had and I took some pictures about a week later. It has has school out for over a week, and everything frozen over in the Rogers, AR area. I’m amazed and wondering about this, since in this area we […]
Here’s the update to my greenhouse…Phil has been working on it in the morning before leaving for the job site. The amazing part of this greenhouse is he has up-cycled and re-purposed all the materials for the project. And here is the inside of the greenhouse several days later, he’s […]
The ridge beams are what holds the mobile home together and supports it when it’s moving down the road. They run along the bottom of the mobile home on both sides to support the floors and walls. Before you get ready to buying a mobile home you might want to […]