Preparing For Repairing Floor Joist In A Mobile Home

Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance.

Preparing for repairing floor joist in a mobile home.

Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home. That cost breaks down between labor and materials. This is a quick and dirty list of the basic steps needed to replace flooring in a mobile home. This is part 4 of the prep work i am taking to remodel.

In this video i take you through the steps i took to repair a badly rotted subfloor and floor joists. A licensed mobile home installer can repair a crowning problem for you but it is not a simple job that a homeowner can tackle successfully. Determine the area to be repaired. We need to know how to replace this.

We bought a used 1972 mobile home. Remove the damaged portion of the subfloor. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor. Bringing the piers under the exterior walls and marriage line into alignment at the same level fixes the crown but can throw the bearing at the piers under the i beams of the chassis out of whack.

Newer mobile homes will either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb. The cost to replace repair or install subfloors includes two components. Floor joist repair costs. Apparently this was going on for a long time because when we started repairing walls we found the edge joist has rotted very badly along about 12 ft.

Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones. Replace subfloor with new material. Attach floor joist supports for subfloor replacement. Repairing floor joists costs 40 to 60 per square foot.

The process of repairing a bad mobile home subfloor is not difficult but it should be done with care to achieve the desired result. The previous owners never repaired correctly. The labor costs for a professional to work on subflooring are usually between 25 and 30 per hour but it will vary based on your location and if the job is particularly complex cost for materials will depend on what type of material you select. Remove the trim and floor covering.

Level new subfloor area. However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp. 15 30 per square foot or 35 80 per hour. The top of the aluminum siding is opened in places so when it rains the inside of the wall gets wet.