How To Fix A Hole In The Floor In A Mobile Home

How to repair your mobile home floor in a single wide trailer.

How to fix a hole in the floor in a mobile home.

Under carpet and other materials many older mobile homes have the cheapest flooring imaginable. This should be a simple fix. Mobile home floor repair. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor.

Or the water or insects responsible for the damage could spread to the floor joists or wall studs and the cost to replace the floor joists and subfloor will be much higher than simply replacing a section of the subfloor. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering. Mobil homes trailer houses have the worst luck for floor damage from water or what ever. Here i show you how to fix it.

It s pretty easy when you know how. Photo courtesy of carrie savage finalist in the 2016 mobile home makeover contest. Cut out the damaged section of flooring by locating the floor joist and carefully cutting out the flooring to the center of the floor joist on both sides of the hole. It may require nothing more than simply sealing small gaps around your window panes with caulk.

Vinyl will usually need to be cut around the perimeter of the room and tile will need to be ripped up. Use a shallow setting on the saw blade to avoid cutting into the floor joist. All done from the top side. We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor.

If it s carpet you will need to remove the strips. This stuff is easily damaged by moisture. Mobile home floors how to repair them flooring problems in a trailer.