Preparing For Repairing Floor Joist In A Mobile Home

The previous owners never repaired correctly.

Preparing for repairing floor joist in a mobile home.

A licensed mobile home installer can repair a crowning problem for you but it is not a simple job that a homeowner can tackle successfully. Remove the damaged portion of the subfloor. In this video i take you through the steps i took to repair a badly rotted subfloor and floor joists. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering.

The top of the aluminum siding is opened in places so when it rains the inside of the wall gets wet. The process of repairing a bad mobile home subfloor is not difficult but it should be done with care to achieve the desired result. 15 30 per square foot or 35 80 per hour. Remove the trim and floor covering.

That cost breaks down between labor and materials. Bringing the piers under the exterior walls and marriage line into alignment at the same level fixes the crown but can throw the bearing at the piers under the i beams of the chassis out of whack. Joist repairs mean you ll have to tear up your top layer and the subfloor and replacing them. However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp.

Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones. Replace subfloor with new material. The cost to replace repair or install subfloors includes two components. Level new subfloor area.

We need to know how to replace this. This is part 4 of the prep work i am taking to remodel. Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance. Determine the area to be repaired.

We bought a used 1972 mobile home. Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home. Attach floor joist supports for subfloor replacement. Newer mobile homes will either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb.

Repairing floor joists costs 40 to 60 per square foot. Apparently this was going on for a long time because when we started repairing walls we found the edge joist has rotted very badly along about 12 ft. This is a quick and dirty list of the basic steps needed to replace flooring in a mobile home. Or the water or insects responsible for the damage could spread to the floor joists or wall studs and the cost to replace the floor joists and subfloor will be much higher than simply replacing a section of the subfloor.