we did a total gut! including removing sub floor and laying plywood before solid hardwood...geez and now i want to leave... anyway, we did ikea kitchen cabinets, got frames first as money allowed and then doors...we're still not done....happy with the cabinets though! love the soft closure, it's qui...

like florida? in what respect? im thinking ca because the humidity in fla. to me would be as bad as the snow...

how is fresno?

thanks for the info,
kristin

ive been in NJ all my life and this kind of move scares me!

im in nj...bought mobile and gutted, we now have solid hardwood floors for my son's walker and sheetrock.....wish i could move this home but.....it would prob fall apart:( and i THINK moving in a new park is a pita. soooo much work, the subfloor was particle board and my dh ripped it out and laid pl...

looking for nice mobile communities near/around san diego...can anyone help?

thanks,
kristin

the glue...my dh is using a plane to scrap..

any tips?

i read that this is literally back breaking!

has anyone put plywood over pb for solid wood for finish?

my stomach hurts

thanks again,
kristin

is the manufacturer, liberty, known to be cheap?

my dh found another sheet of osb in another corner...just one in the midst of many more pcs of particleboard...

kristin
sw 2002 liberty

it's particleboard... my dh is in the process of taking down the interior walls. he's checking behind each piece of insulation to see what's going on and did find one sheet of osb at one of the corners in the front bedroom. we're thinking like someone here said there was a bad repair of the front do...

it is a sw 2002 liberty. would osb disintegrate from water? by the front door its just gone you see the siding and no house wrap..after removing insulation. ive asked my husband 10x "are you sure it's not osb" he is a decent DIY'er. we've layed floors, replaced windows, doors, knocked down...

i am the one with "removing batten strips" post. we decided to put up new sheetrock. took some walls down today and the outside wall is also particle board like the floor..is this common for an outside wall? by the front door the particle board was disintegrated from water..and there is no...

thanks everyone so much for the suggestions...i love the cake decorating gizmo, great idea!

kristin

Greg,

are you saying that new sheetrock taped with mesh and compound will eventually crack?

yes, we are replacing floor throughout with solid prefinished hardwood.

can i run a bead of caulk before taping?

thanks again,
kristin

so we closed yesterday on this property. i have gone back and forth deciding whether to remove and replace or trying to mud under batten.. this is vinyl covered sheetrock, what do most people do? after removing batten strips and seeing it isn't two factory edges like in my current home i want to tea...

and underneath the sheetrock is not factory edge to be mudded? how does one do this and not create a hump with tape and joint compound?

thanks for the answers. we have decided to take out walls and replace with 1/2.

re: what's there now. almost positive its the vinyl covered walls, there are batten strips.

we are not in the home yet.
we should be taking ownership march.29. it is a 2002 liberty.

thanks,
kristin