Phil shows you exactly how to measure the cross over ductwork for your double-wide mobile home. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Intro00:12 Showing Crossover duct work, want to use wrapped metal to prevent rusting out01:13 Has 2 crossover01:53 How to measure for duct you need Transcript:Okay. Just for your reference, if ever you’re getting ready to work on your … Read more
Phil uses drywall knives for doing a variety of things, since he’s so familiar with the tool. 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. All right. That … Read more
You always want to make sure your mobile home bath tub faucet is sealed. Here’s an example of what can happen. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Follow along with a handyman00:25 Damage from leaking faucet00:55 Be an American not an American’t Hi, I’m Phil bridges, owner of Straight Arrow Repair. Ever want to know how a repairman fixes things? … Read more
Here’s another section on the mobile home bathroom repair, putting in a cast iron tub. We are laying plywood for the subfloor. This is the first piece. It has several cuts. Around the water pipes and the heating and air vent. Get ready for some tips and tricks to speed you along on your own … Read more
Customer had a problem with sparrows getting into the house through the flue when it was open. To fix it we took rabbit wire…wire that’s 1″x1″ and wrapped the flue. No more birds in the house. Time:00:00 Intro00:25 What to do if birds are getting in through your flue00:55 Outro
Updated 2-27-22 Electric Shears. Hey. This is a new tool for a lot of people. This is shears. Instead of using snips, you use these. And what this does is this part here goes up and down, and it pinches. So it makes it all cut a quarter inch, cut all the way through the … Read more
Updated 2-27-22 Drywall Mud Paddle Hello again. This is a, a paddle we’re spinning drywall mud. You have to put it on the drill and put it in the mud. I suggest you hold on to it with most feet on the sides, and there has to be a heavier drill, but a little bit … Read more
Updated 6-25-22 What I didn’t like about prodex, two things ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 The paper on the sticky part00:40 Instructions only in Spanish, not English01:46 We show you how to do it video link below01:56 40 degree difference with the prodex02:30 Over all great product, we use it on all our roofs Hi guys, to finish up … Read more
Trying to show a customer in Texas what her rental property looks like, and what we repaired today.
Updated 1-7-22 Here are all the pictures and video for the mobile home in Rogers, AR that we did. When the customer first contacted us, all he wanted was to have the deck completed by the end of Aug. for a birthday party. After completing the deck, the customer kept adding different jobs for used … Read more
Here’s a walkthrough of the privacy fence and deck after they completed the job. We did several jobs for this customer. We did: The fancy deck Metal skirting Metal roof 2 Cabnets inside Replaced his front door Privacy fence
Updated 12-26-21 We put a metal roof on a shed in Bella Vista, AR. It had a shingled roof that was leaking and the customer wanted the property improved to sell it. Here is a comparison of the Bella Vista shed: Shed in Bella Vista Before: Shed in Bella Vista After:
Budget Mobile Home Tub Surround Replacement. The customer needed us to do the job within a very tight budget. We used a house type tub surround, 60″, and cut it down to the 54″ needed for a mobile home tub surround. That’s what our goal, to make the customer happy and their life better. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 … Read more
Updated 12-26-21 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
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 whole house like a regular … Read more
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.
Here are the updated pictures of the Roger’s house job. These are the improvements the have completed, these pictures were taken about 4 weeks after they had started the job. With this being a long term job, we do it in between all the other jobs we have for customers. We have been working on … Read more
A lot of the jobs that we take on end up being long term jobs, especially large ones. We try to work with people budget wise, and also will do project in stages. The Rogers house is one of those projects. The first stage of the project was started back in the Spring of this … Read more
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 got about a third of … Read more