Updated 1-30-23
Phil walks you through another mobile home relevel.
Links to how to make a water level: https://youtu.be/im1tsTFQjeo , https://youtu.be/tiSVWJ5-m_k , https://youtu.be/bHf2Mt6AIUo
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00:00 We’ll bring you along for as long as our battery holds up
00:13 Looking at the re-level trailer
01:15 Jacks we carry in the trailer
01:45 Need to get dressed and set up the water level
02:16 What was most alarming to the customer
02:58 Nothing was put under the perimeter blocking
03:39 Under the house
04:05 Want to see exactly how it’s out of level and decide on what we need to do
04:21 One side is out about one-quarter inch and that’s where we will go up
04:39 There will be more videos, please watch all of them before you try this yourself.
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Your going with us as far as a battery will hold up. I guess we’ll have to figure out how to get a better battery sense of the situation. But you’re with us for as long as the battery shows up on a re level. So this is a mess because we’ve done two before and we need to emphasize that, empathize with the people who are doing any kind of work underneath houses. It’s dirty, nasty and bone grinding, lean muscle tough. So I kind of forgive the guys for just throwing the stuff in there with no organization whatsoever.
But ultimately, like, this is not even being in here. It’s not the right size Most all the blocks I use are eight by sixteens. I’ve never use an 8×8. Well that’s 12 by 12. So anyway, we’ve already been to this job. We’ve already looked at it, and know what we’re up against They’re concerned, and I’ll show you why, but it’s really not as bad as it might seem.
But we’re here to make them feel better about their house and secure So we’re got all kinds of jacks. I got air over hydraulics, which I don’t use anymore because it’s really heavy with extra plate and extra and you’ve got to keep the house clear and not have dirt. Dirt get in. And this is exceptionally heavy compared to this, I’ll have to measure sometimes.
This is what you call the air over hydraulics, and it goes chuka-chuka as you’re pushing the button. But anyway, we’re going to I’m going to show you what we do. We’re going to get dressed first. I’m going to take a look. Take the water level. If you watch any of the other videos, actually show you how to make one yourself, which is as my backup So there’s a small video on how to do that.
This one just got to be finished, sealed up right here so we don’t lose our level. And it’s very rugged. You can drop it on the floor, so we’re going to take that down there and set up first. And we get dressed to resist as much dirt as we can. What was alarming to them the most was looking at this and then that when we pulled the skirting off, the perimeter, blocking fell over.
Now, that’s not what the structure sits on. This is to adjust this door, underneath the floor joist. You’re supposed to adjust the door say if this side needed to go up to get close, it would jack up the frame over there. Build your pier up to the floor joist, jack it up, and then let your frame down and it would push one side of the other the doors with the perimeter blocking also helps stop the settling.
In this case, they didn’t put anything underneath it to kind of halfway set on the what you call concrete runners, and they didn’t put anything under there. But I mean, I want to say that’s really lazy. But what happens, these guys get really, really tired and they do a bad job because they’re tired. So we’re going to make this better And although this is not these two are not only part of the sub, they’re holding the house together or holding it level. This is just to support the door.
We’re under here. We set the water level up in the center of the house or somewhere close so I can do 100 feet. 50 feet that way. 50 feet that way. 50 that way. That way. So what I’m going to do first is go to through and see where it is out of level and say it’s like a cracker box on top of this.
We’re trying to figure out what angles we’re I’m going to have to jack up. And then I might compromise and say, you know, let’s go down where we’re at right here, and we’ll go with that because most of us that’s height. So that’s what I’m doing. And it takes some experience to get good at it.
So that’s what we’ve done instead of one level to this frame. And then I found out that that side is needs to go up about a quarter inch. So we’re going to keep on going and what will determine what’s going on? I don’t have enough battery life to keep you to all of this. So hopefully you watch all these films before you go tackling it yourself.
But I’ll show you a film on how we get rid of all the air bubbles and set it up to the frame. And not this time, maybe, though, but next time. All right.