Getting ready to tape and texture walls and was told by a Home Depot employee that paper tape is less likely to crack, Any truth to that?????

I am going to chime in but not with an answer but with an added question, how does one determine if your home will withstand the additional weight of a roof over? I am thinking in the furture for my home.

Pete

I have the cheap original kitchen cabinets in my kitchen that are the hardboard covered with the wood grain paper. The woodgrain paper is peeling off in places. I would like to paint them but the paint dept at Lowes said that if you paint over this type of cabinet that the paint ends up with bubbles...

I bought the repair manual that is sold under the books & Parts link and was probably the best thing I ever did. I think that if you paid the $30 and read the section on underbelly repair it would save you lots of $$$ and tell you exactly how to repair large areas of your underbelly section by s...

Hey everyone, This topic is kind of attached to an older topic "ceilings cracks". I recently went under our house to try what has been suggested for squeaky floors "tightening joist bolts" which worked for that issue but I found another issue which I think might be tied to the ce...

Thanks, thats what I thought, it makes sence just wanted to be sure since this is my first home/manufactured home

Pete

Just saw this on This Old House, dont know why it would not work on a Manufactured home. Here's the link to it. there is a link to the site that you can buy the special tool that you will need also. Looks pretty easy if you have carpet and dont want to pull it up or cut your moisture barrier under t...

I got such a good responce to my last post here's another :) What is the correct schedule to close and open the vents that are in the foundation for the crawl space under a Manufactured Home? I live in Southern Idaho which has very hot dry summers and Cold (sometimes VERY cold) and sometimes snowy w...

As far as the door question goes I just replaced my back door which was one of those typical MH doors (odd size). I had a 36" X 80" opening but the only problem is that they don't make a prefab door for that size opening at any of the bIg Box stores. I got a quote from HD and they wanted $...

yep they are, just got done with the long list of bank conditions now we can start on the stuff that really needs to get done. It ONLY took us 6mo to buy this house LOL, LOL. It was a HUD home and both HUD and Wells Fargo put us through the ringer getting it. But now it is ours and we are either goi...

Thanks for all the good Advice, Yes as you can see in the two pics both lean to things (yes they were both ugly as sin) are now gone and the same thought also came to mind that after the relief of the weight things might be shifting since the back structure has only been off 2mo and the front has be...

Thanks tnt17 fir the suggesting Jig A patch. I have used something simular on walls Thanks Dean2 you reassured me of what I thought I was going to have to do to fix the crack by the front door Greg & Yanita I live in southern Idaho, Nobody has gone up on the roof but we have just had a decent am...

Hello, I have a 6yr old dbl wide manufactured home on a foundation I have several cracks in my ceiling and not sure what the cause is, does anyone have any ideas as to where to start looking? I have one by the front door that when I push up on it the plaster board moves so I am almost positive that ...