Another idea would be to puncture some small breathing holes in the interior vapor barrier with a pencil lead. Would it be better to do this on the interior vapor barrier, or the exterior? It would be more work to get to the exterior stuff, but I think it could be doable. It wouldn't be too terribl...

Wish I had thought about the house wrap idea - that would have been perfect. If I get any problems I'll just have to take off the sheet metal and then replace the plastic with house wrap. I'm hoping it will still work OK though - the insulation recommended in the repair manual actually comes sealed ...

Great job, thanks for the photos and description! You have snow already?!? What's up with that? We're in VT and none yet (not that I'm complaining, mind you!) I live way up here in the great white north, but even still the snow kind of surprised us. I went to bed one night without a care in the wor...

I just finished my new insulated skirting, just in time for the snow! (we got over a foot overnight last week) Glad it's finally done - what I thought would take one or two weekends took a whole lot longer. I started off following the ideas from the repair manual, and then ended up tweaking things a...

Thanks Greg! I didn't even think about wrapping batts in plastic myself. That should actually be a lot cheaper than what I was thinking of getting, which was a long roll of insulation that comes pre-wrapped. I live up in Canada, it'll be my first winter in a mobile home, and I'm paranoid about froze...

I'm just about to begin the process of reskirting a mobile home that I am in the process of renovating. I'm going to be using metal skirting with fiberglass insulation behind it (as suggested in Marks manual). The place I found for the rolls of insulation asked if I wanted a foil backing on it or no...

Thanks for all the replys. Is the underbelly material something that can be pickup up at home depot or the like? I would like to order it online, but I live in Canada so the shipping kind of makes it not worth it.

I was about to replace the skirting around a mobile home I just purchased, and noticed that under the addition that has been added at the entrance they have vapor barrier underneath the insulation. That is, it's attached between the ground and the insulation. Isn't this supposed to be ABOVE the insu...