I just closed on my first mobile home a 1972 12X65 single wide which is in very good shape for its age,on the 24th of June, which was empty for a year it was winterized when the owner moved. It's total electric with baseboard heat. I looked under the home to see the condition of the underbelly, the ...

So if I went with the adjustable outriggers on the perimeter walls so I can replace the insulation and paneling with bead board . The question that I have is how much of a span that will have to have between outriggers??? The next question is do I need to put say a 2x8 or a double 2x8 under the rim ...

Thats sounds like a lot of work and expense that it might not be worth the afford maybe just adding new insulation and bead board would be the best way to go. If I added perimeter blocking I would have to have the piers below the frost line correct??????

I was thinking of the outriggers would I need one on each joist or every other one, are would I need to put a 2x8 under the floor joist say in a 12 ft. span then the outriggers about 4 ft. apart

I was thinking of maybe OSB and bead board or 1/2 drywall . Could I use adjustable outriggers instead on perimeter blocking because I would have to put pier below the frost line in IL. If it's to much of a problem I will just put bead board up. Your thoughts

Thank you Greg but the problem I have is that I'm trying to leave up the exterior siding for now until spring/ the plan was to remove the wood paneling and do a room at a time with studs and new insulation with vapor bearier. Do you think I can add a 2x6 next to the 2x2 stud and add maybe a 2x4 for ...

If I added a 2x4 in front of each stud that is there would that be close to a 2x6 or do I have remove the old stud and replace with the 2x6 because I would have to add to the top and bottom plate as well correct?????

I going to remove the old wood paneling in my MH its a SW 12x65 can i add on the the studs with a 2x4 and also top and bottom plates that way the wall cavity would be about 5 inch for better insulation then after winter I can remove the steel siding and windows install new windows and housewrap and ...

Thanks Greg there is duct work under there because it has central A/C. I dont know if they made all electric homes back then but there is no closet for the furnace unless it was under the home. I will have to get my old body under there and look see when we get up there to do some work before we mov...

Do you have any advise on which how can I address that, I dont know if someone removed the furnance or it was all ways baseboard heat, the home might have been total electric?????

I just bought a 1972 single wide the title has KEY as the manufacture that is in very good shape, its located in IL about 50 miles south of Chicago in a 55+ park. I never owned or lived in a mobile home before and have a few question before the move, which will be the end of July. It is all electric...