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.

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

Photo courtesy of carrie savage finalist in the 2016 mobile home makeover contest. It s pretty easy when you know how. Mobil homes trailer houses have the worst luck for floor damage from water or what ever. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering.

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. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor. Mobile home floor repair. We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor.

How to repair your mobile home floor in a single wide trailer. We removed an old chimney and that l. This stuff is easily damaged by moisture. This should be a simple fix.

Mobile home windows also have a tendency to leak and may be allowing water to run down onto your floor where it seeps into the flooring and begins to create soft spots. Vinyl will usually need to be cut around the perimeter of the room and tile will need to be ripped up. If it s carpet you will need to remove the strips. Here i show you how to fix it.

Mobile home floors how to repair them flooring problems in a trailer. All done from the top side. It may require nothing more than simply sealing small gaps around your window panes with caulk.