Removing the MH Floor

The beginning getting rid of the old floor and finding all the surprises!

The insulation had disintegrated to nothing, removed all the duct work, many of the joist had broke or dry rotted when we removed the floor many came up with them. The cost to totally replace all the joist was not much @250. We placed ours 16 inches apart.

June 2011--Back to blog

Hello! I have been gone for a LONG time. We have worked on the mobile home for many weeks of my husbands vacations. The first week was in January--what were we thinking lol--the coldest winter ever. We decided to work on the yellow mobile home first so that it would be totally done by August. The plan was at first to just fix what was needed--well everything--so it was faster and easier to just gut everything. So glad we went this direction, we found tons of bad things that we would not have found and we could rewire everything,replace all the joist,parts of walls,all the floors,all the insulation and ceiling,new roof, new windows,French Doors, plus much more......

We--let me clarify,my family my husband,me,my daughter 18 and my son 13--my children are wonderful and jump into a project with us,even when they could be doing something with friends and miss activities when we are doing a project. My kids can paint,wire a house, use tools,plumbing do drywall......there is no task too hard for them. My son can build a house. I forget how much they help us,sorry kids!!!

We worked every weekend and in July --my hubby get 8 weeks vacation --I know there was another week but forget when, but the month of July we hit the mh hard and worked sun up to sun down and made allot of progress but we did squeeze in a few days off for a vacation :)

The next few post will be many photos, I hope I remeber the correct order--I should have blogged as we did it but enjoy our mobile home project.

Inside MH 2 future rental

I guess I did not take photos of the bad things and hard to take photos of the soft floors and all the leaking roof areas--so the mh just looks ugly lol and the windows are new but they did not replace the damage done by the old windows and did not caulk the windows correctly.
Here is the complete photo album.
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Inside Mobile Home 1 Before

It would take me all day to load all of the photos of the before so here is an album to see all the photos of the before I took.

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Honey, Are you CRAZY!!

I love my wonderful Husband and he rarely tells me NO but......I think he was thinking it and in after thought after the last few months in this adventure.....maybe...he was right..but don't tell him lol

Photos of Mobile homes

Mobile homes where we bought them in Nov 2009. They need lots of work!

Total Mobile Home Remodel

This adventure started when I was surfing the web--I found a property with a house and 2 mobile homes(mh) on the same property. In the town our dd was going to college at but 3 hours away,i know were all of our free time will be spent in the future. The MH's need some work and the house needed a few things done to it. The last owners or their handyman--who stopped and want to work for us--favorite way of fixing something was spray foam it--they went through cases of it lol. In our walk through the realtor said the MH's were rented with in the year--but low rent for them due to condition--this area rent runs in the high area compared to our area we live in--our dd wanted out of the dorms so we were interested in the mh for her and renting the other mh and house for her expenses. We looked into replacing one of the mh with a newer model, but was told the zoning laws would not allow it--the current ones 1973 models were grandfathered in zoning. We found out later not everything our realtor told us was true and many things she did not tell us--when buying a house in an area you are not familiar with--call the zoning/code office yourself and talk to the neighbors--none of them are getting paid for the sale of the house--let's say we were mislead in areas.