If You Need to Keep Your Mobile Home Tub

Hi, I’m Phil bridges, owner of Straight Arrow Repair. Ever want to know how a repairman fixes things? Well come with me, and I’ll show you how I solve problems. Let’s make things better together. So when you’re coming to a tub like this has these pieces that go over the top of the edge … Read more

Fell Through Floor Water Damage

Getting to know Phil. He doesn’t often fall or get hurt, but this floor he did. That reminded him of a year before falling, getting a dancer’s fracture and working hurt. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Intro00:12 Water damaged 2x6s00:25 Fell through the floor00:35 Last year did that and had to wear a walking cast ???? Subscribe, ????, it … Read more

Fell Through Floor #Shorts

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Actually I fell through the floor. That’s kind of an unusual, I would say. But last year I fell to the floor and got a dancer’s fracture and I had to go around in a cast for six weeks. Where other people to work. I work and it was very clumsy, felt like a club … Read more

What You Can Do With A Small Mobile Home

Phil walks you through a project we have improving an old late 60’s early 70’s mobile home. He shows you where the original owners added to it over a 20 year period. Then walks you through some of the things we have done and are doing to improve the property even more. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Intro00:12 A … Read more

Mobile Home Door Hinge Repair

Mobile Home Door Hinge Repair

Phil shows you a quick and easy way to fix mobile home door hinges, and make the place feel more home-like. If you’re doing the work for someone else, it’s adds a polish to your work. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Intro00:12 First thing is to take off the door, so it’s not in the way01:05 Quick tip on … Read more

Jazzing Up A Bathroom in a Mobile Home

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

Bracing Mobile Home Deck

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.