How to install metal skirting on a mobile home. Phil walks you through the entire job, exactly how to do it. We take you step-by-step through the whole project. How to use J-channel, cut inside and outside corners. Why you would want to reuse the vinyl bottom and top rail. You see exactly how to … Read more
Ever wondered why your plastic mobile home tub has cracks you can’t patch? In this video Phil explains how, and why this happens. Oh, Phil has one mess up on the video, the mobile home type tubs are 54″ and house are 60″. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Talking to you today about mobile home bathtubs00:10 Mobile home tubs … Read more
Updated 1-8-23 Phil teaches you why he doesn’t use vents in metal skirting. We’ve had many questions about how to handle the moisture under your manufactured home. Do you need vents for your trailer’s metal skirting? No, not as far as we have seen in over 30 years. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Do you need vents in your … Read more
Updated 1-8-23 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 complete house like … Read more
Updated 1-8-23 All those doors in a mobile home are often very, very fragile, and the jams on the outside edge are not like a house in they are made of paneling. People get discouraged and say that oh this is just junk and you can’t do anything about it. That’s not true. You can … Read more
Updated 1-8-23 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 are not.
Updated 1-8-23 I thought I would let you know who we are and what this blog will talk about. Phil Bridges: This is Phil…the brains, and what makes Straight Arrow tick. My husband has been working construction and repair since he was a child working with his Father and uncle’s company’s. Phil has done both … Read more
