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- Fri May 13, 2016 8:32 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Roofing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5216
Re: Roofing
Dude, the instructions are on the can. Answers all your questions.
- Fri May 06, 2016 9:35 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Water under mobile home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23091
Re: Water under mobile home
Is your skirting vented? It's a-MAZE-ing how fast water disappears when there is adequate venting. That lake should be dry (if source is stopped) in about 2 days.
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:46 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Need help with a leak
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5908
Re: Need help with a leak
Yep, it's that crack. With plastic and fiberglas tubs, there's a Styrofoam platform glues to the bottom. Ratty rats get in there and chew it away, then standing in the tub cracks it. Bondo will not hold; I rent and Lonnie Deal MHs, and I will use a metal tub as replacement now, every time. In my are...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:39 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: washing VENTED soffit and fascia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5620
Re: washing VENTED soffit and fascia
Outdoor bleach in a pump up sprayer. It's at Lowe's.
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 10:37 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Gutter installation question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3469
Re: Gutter installation question
Hire a seamless gutters guy. Best way.
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 10:36 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: OLD METAL SIDING
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8922
Re: OLD METAL SIDING
Buy a roll of fiberglass screen material, and cut a small piece off, ball it up and shove it up the hole. Keeps bugs out, lets water drain. Or better, get some material like the wash-&-reuse furnace filter material, loose open cell material.
- Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:00 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Over-engineering
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4252
Re: Over-engineering
Wow, what would make a safe shake like that? Wink
- Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:55 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: burst water heater
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4408
Re: burst water heater
You found out my criteria the hard way: it ain't price, it's what'll fit. I also have a hard time finding pans small enough;, no strike that. I have never found pans small enough
- Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Some work I plan on doing on a 90's mobile home?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7225
Re: Some work I plan on doing on a 90's mobile home?
I have found the opposite. Windows at the MH store (not here) run up to $300-ish. Big-ass 4x8 window special ordered is like 200. And check with your electric provider; here, they'll rebate $75 per window for replacements.
- Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:11 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Some work I plan on doing on a 90's mobile home?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7225
Re: Some work I plan on doing on a 90's mobile home?
Special order the size you need at Lowe's or HD. Takes 2 weeks, but it's perfect.
- Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:09 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: roofing question..
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14411
Re: roofing question..
Every dw I've ever paid attention to has a 4:12 pitch or less. That is just too shallow for adequate runoff with shingles. I think it's asking for trouble. In re: continuing with vent penetration and caps vs. Ridge venting, it's more work and it's installing big holes in your roof. More likelihood f...
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:26 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: roofing question..
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14411
Re: roofing question..
Nah, I bet those metal roofers are putting in a ridge vent. I I just had the exact same thing done this last weekend. 1: strip roof to bare wood, replace any bad sheathing. Keep old, or install new drip edge. 2: install underlayment - tar paper is ok, or a synthetic like Gatorskin - right over old v...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:02 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Pex pinhole???
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4342
Re: Pex pinhole???
I had a pex pinhole at a rental about a year ago. Soggy spot just outside skirting blocks at the farthest point from the access, no water source anywhere. Scratching my head, I crawled under, and (luckily) just inside was the spray from a hot water line, just tiny but over time... A rat chewed throu...
- Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:00 am
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: Redoing underbelly on 1973 DW
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7401
Re: Redoing underbelly on 1973 DW
Regarding spray adhesive - I've been patching holes with 3m spray and Tyvek house wrap. Doesn't last long.
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:58 pm
- Forum: Mobile Home Repair
- Topic: crawl space fan anyone?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6701
Re: crawl space fan anyone?
Never seen it taped. Just loose lay, cover the dirt, not skirt