Updated 5-5-23
Installing Insulation and house wrap under a mobile home floor.
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00:00 Cold day, adding insulation to floor
00:32 First thing is to measure the overall area
01:20 Cutting the house wrap
01:45 Discourages animals
02:10 Helping discourage animals
02:20 Opening the insulation
02:45 Too much insulation is OK
03:00 Putting the insulation under the trailer
04:30 Hard trying to get it in place
05:15 A lot of times there’s plumbing you have to work around, not this time
05:40 You want the insulation next to the house wrap
06:00 That prevents freezing pipes
07:00 Shoving as much insulation in as they can
08:00 Random conversation about Amish people moving barns
08:30 House wrap and the screw guns
09:35 Should have been cut out
10:10 Wrap is going to go against the frame
11:30 Getting the house wrap in place
12:10 Tight under there with 3 people
12:35 Shoving the house wrap under the board
13:05 Watch for your electrical lines
14:15 Locating the floor joists
14:40 Screwing through the one by
16:00 Continuing to secure the house wrap
16:25 The cold weather just takes out the batteries
17:30 Moving to the other side
18:00 You can roll the house wrap up under the one by and get the slack out
18:30 Fun times when you work with your children
19:45 More battery troubles
20:50 Next area
22:00 Boys are having technical difficulties
22:46 Have to go get more screws
23:40 Trying to decide where to secure the 1 by
24:50 Patching another area
25:33 What you do to patch it
26:00 Black Gorilla tape
26:40 Not sure I ever expected this conversation from Phil
27:50 Moving to the next hole
29:20 Moving to the next hole needing patched
30:00 Patched the small one with just tape
32:00 Next hole
34:00 Putting the house wrap in so he can tape
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Hody, guys on a very cold day, 19 degrees with wind. Uh, we started out with there’s a cold floor because there’s no insulation in this area. And of course there’s quite a few other places, but this is where you can tell the animals used to be in and tore down. And so we’re going to put insulation in here and then house wrap.
The first thing I’m going to be doing is measuring an overall size, which shows about six foot by six foot by five foot.
That would be the size of the house wrap, and then we’ll tuck the insulation in between the floor joists and let it flop down as we go back. As we get up there and then we’ll fasten the house wrap to the floor joists with one bys. And then that way we can fasten to the floor joists, with screws. That way I’ll be held up and I’ll show you the house wrap that we use and we’ll take you through it as we go.
So now we’re cutting the, uh the house wrap. Which is by Lowe’s. We didn’t get it because it’s cheaper, but because the way it’s made. The Dupont house wrap tears really easy. You notice this has like a mesh, which if you don’t have a sharp knife it won’t cut very good. Which means it’s discouraging for animals too. Is it animal proof? No, I’ve seen too many opossums, rats and mice chew through wood and there’s rumors of them down in Louisiana going into silos that are made of concrete. That’s mice. So making it animal proof? No, we’re helping discourage animals. Okay, then we need to open up.
“Okay.”
Well, I mean. All right, well, here’s what I normally do. So, Mickey, if you look on the side. And you see where it starts right there.
“Right there.”
Sea right here.
“Oh, yeah. Try not to cut through…”
Is this 8’ lengths? Let’s just use 8s.
“Yeah. I think it’s an 8.”
Too much insulation is okay. All right, Clay, climb under there. So tucking it in. What are you doing? You get underneath there and…
“I wasn’t complaining it’s like Drew. Drew. Drew?”
Hey,
“Unless someone has got fresh batteries. I don’t know.”
We put yours on and throw those all together and we’ll toss it to you.
“Is that on Drew?”
You might get underneath there with him. So people can see what we’re doing.
“I’ll just keep.”
“Under the ductwork now.”
“Probably have cut it there.”
“Yeah.”
“Well, while you cut that lot of the shipping officers.
You’ll take that and overuse that way. Drew.
OK, well let me get back there.
All right, you’re good. It’s right above you where we have to go.
Grab it and pull the bottom half toward you.
Ya, I did.
A lot of times there’s plumbing in these areas in this particular area doesn’t have it. So we can take it up in the insulation above the frame. So to stay up, I mean, up in the floor joists above the frame and it’ll stay up there.
Your going to put that there. Put that over your left shoulder. That little short piece.
Of breath.
But a lot of times the plumbing is hanging down low and we don’t want the insulation up in the floor joist not protecting the plumbing. So you want to have it sitting on the house wrap itself. So the heat will stay inside that area.
Instead of dissipating.
Right. Otherwise, you’re going to end up with your pipe frozen in the wintertime like it is right now. Yeah. Although we get down to -13.
Well, it’s 10 degrees with wind chill.
I don’t know if wind chill makes a difference. Not to pipes either the freeze or they don’t.
Can see what we’re doing.
Yeah.
Clay, let’s put one in this area right here.
Where? Right here?
Right here. And right here.
Well, we’ll have to cut that.
I think you can tuck a full piece in.
What?
I think you can tuck a full piece in.
Uh, I don’t think so but…
And it’s a 2×4. That’s too big for a 2×4.
A 2×6? You want me to cut it down some?
We just fold it over and into the thing.
If you want to.
Make your well there’s going to be a lot warmer.
You get Drew.
Got another piece out here.
I had…
Right beside that one. They say many hands make the load light.
This one here is going to go against the frame.
“All right.”
You just roll it up and then fasten it you know.
“So, he wants it to be like right here?”
“Yes.”
“Does it need to be cut down? I think we’re going to have to.”
“Well, we can break it.”
“Yeah.”
“Here you can hold it.”
Why are you pulling it down? Why did I pull it now? The boards too long to go against frame long? Yeah. Neverminded you’re right. Oh, so we have a gap.
All right. Yeah. This is. Where’s my end?
Did you lose it?
Here want to hold my screws Drew?
I lost my light.
Well you can use this one.
There it is. I am.
Way inside is very uncomfortable.
Where do I screw this into?
The choices.
The 2 bys right there. Look, bam. Bam.
Well, Drew can you hold this up?
I can’t get a wrap around them.
You got to go underneath the board.
Run around on the other side? Hey. well I’m there on.
The other side.
There you go.
When you’re doing that keep an eye on where that electrical line is. And don’t put a screw into that electrical line. Yeah, Although.
Did you hit anything?
No.
I think you got to be over this way more.
I can’t go over anymore. There’s a big old metal bar here.
Well, the house that can go past.
Your screw is there.
You have to pull your screw out.
Pull the board down and it’ll come. I can’t lift up my head. It hurts I you listen to your head right there with your head and that’s really important, Clay, don’t you screw it anywhere.
There’s a floor joist, right here.
Thing is really can’t really see the floor joist.
You can even feel it. That’s a mobile.
There’s one right here. In here.
This metal bar right here?
That’s the floor joist.
Becareful.
There’s one right. Here too. We’ll see in the floorboards.
Clay, would you please go through the one by?
No, I’m trying to find where it’s at. How about you just go through the one by?
re you in reverse? Oh, yeah. Okay.
Yeah, Put it all on there. So it started right here. Right.
It doesn’t have to be in every floor joist.
We’re going to need a new battery before long.
That’s a brand new charged battery.
Of all the nails, all the back and forth over her hot. That should be good enough. I don’t like. Here’s the battery. Right here’s the old one.
Well, it wasn’t close to that.
You know, it’s just cold weather. It takes them out.
That they sat there and.
I heard it again.
Just to the outside of this. Well, yeah, the wall. I don’t know if they get so cold. Yeah.
I get another battery. I thought they’re on the charger. All right.
Uh, if you were to move, go to the other side. In this case, is that for some of the reasons why? Two pieces of work already right here and in. You can roll it up if you want to, and pull that slack out. There you go.
Now, don’t pull it too tight this way. You need slack. And that’s the idea. Get it all up in there. on, you’re over there.
I think you need to get it over here.
Where I had it took home, I said, okay, 350 lb guys don’t argue with me. You are 150. Stop arguing with me. I’m a crazy guy. But I’m all paying for it all.
Great battery. Oh, I.
Guess I’m going to have to start taking these things to bed with me. So stay warm.
Those again in my later. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Ah, here you go, Clay. Yeah. So far the you would.
I can try…
It’s just awful close. Yeah. You’re good. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Okay. So.
And then, right here. Yeah.
You’re missing when you go at an angle like that. Yeah, I think you went on either side of it. Now, technical difficulties.
You got a screw back over there? and, uh, one.
That’s all I need to.
I have to have the screws
You got a screw back over there? and, uh, one.
That’s all I need to.
I have to have the screws in one of them look.
Around board against it, and I so. Oh, that’s not going no metal.
Yeah, that’s what I ran into over here. So I got an engineer down this road.
Well, then you go a long way with that one right here.
That remember, if it was easy, Walmart greeters would be doing it, wondering.
All right, you know.
It looks pretty good.
Looks pretty taunt everywhere.
All right. Let’s go. There you go guys, got that particular section done. We’re going to do some little patches and maybe I’ll take you through that with us. Also yeah.
I use player tape All right, here we go.
Over here.
Ya, over here the hole’s over this way.
I think I might have some of those bushings. I might even a ruba warning in there. The washer thing.
Oh the spacers.
The be on. Guess it was. In this case we have a little place that’s torn, somebody trying to reach something. Plumbers are notorious for just ripping down so what we do is take that.
Up above and on the edge of the wrap where it is. Keeping cold air from getting up in there. And discouraging animals. And then we’ll tape with really good duct tape other great stuff. It’s not even sticking in this kind of cold. this particular type is black, uh, I think it’s gorillas tape.
3M.
What is it?
3M little tape seems to be pretty good that 3M
That’s really good tape. I think it has to do with how much you pay for it. It’s usually, with tape, the more you pay for it the better it is.
It’s not the case with women. But not that I’m talking about prostitutes, but the expensive women that you have in your lives are usually not better. Look at you laughing. Personally, I don’t know what a prostitute would cost, but.
They’re more than I can afford.
Ok, Tim, wrap that black up.
That’s it’s. There you… No, no, no, no, no.
Over it.
All the way over it.
Pull it over, tape it all the way over it. Now you, even though it’s short because, see, when they cut it is short. You can still tape it up and it’s got stuff up above it. Oh, okay. That’s the whole. No, no, there’s two more. Drew, you follow them around.
I will.
See if you can find the next one and think it’s over there isn’t it, Tim?
Yeah.
Clay, go on around. Well, I feel.
Like it’s very, you know, like when I’m to the head, the. I get both you because they’re put back on the truck, worry about it and I can see.
So your head isn’t even a Well I can see it don’t you. To like are there. Well I start on it right. Yeah. Like I definitely go like it’s like.
I can tiny hole. Yeah.
Put the hole in it and you Right.
OK, head’s up.
Well I go to the next hole. Well you’re already there. Tape it off. I’m not sure I like, I think it’s on the other side of this.
Okay Fine. You’re past it Tim. I know. I was trying to see where the other one was Is it right there? There’s a small one there. And you want to.
Still getting another hole. Ya, there’s a good sized one down there. I can’t really get anything. hurt? Yeah.
How about beginning? If you always flush over, only use a flashlight with a camera, then it should. Maybe this is open. There again. This is is. I need this one that in case.
That’s not enough. Huh? Do you need this over? I don’t think so. Is he about done?
Yeah. Just getting this last crack takes a little more time to tape it up, but doesn’t stuff it.
Oh, all right. So they’re so. Yeah.