The end walls are fastened into place and interior walls placed. The modern round wire nails began replacing square cut nails shortly before 1900. 1930's construction, I'd have to assume furring strips, but do as Dirt suggests and look behind an outlet. For example, valuable land where no new homes were allowed. It is something you must think about and decide when deciding to build. There may or may not be a building paper between the clapboards and the sheathing. Look around the refrigerator for water damage from the condensation pan overflowing or a problem with the water dispenser connections.Turn on the water to the tub and sink, let it run for a minute or two and then flush the toilet two or three times. Alan, how the trusses are attached. Screwed these strips to the ceiling trusses. I have a 1986 D/W. Some spray foams are being promoted as not only providingcavity insulation and air tightness but also structural properties related to shear and impact resistance. CarolWe have a double wide and want to take down a closet in the middle of the kitchen, to open up to the living area, should be be worried about a support beamPaulIf the wall you want to remove is on the marriage line where the two halves of the house come together you do NOT want to remove it. According to a local insulation company, the cost difference between installing R-15 to R-21 is $.25 sq/ft. Guest #11 03-29-2002, 01:49 AM Re: 2x6 walls? In addition the walls rest on the very end of the outriggers so weight their puts the maximum stress (leverage) onto the support system. Studs are the vertical boards and are normally 2 x 4 and spaced every 16 in a manufactured home. Your professional opinion would be greatly appreciated.PaulI think that would be a REALLY big mistake!DwightThanks Paul. Cavity insulation got a pretty inauspicious start in America as compressed eel grass (Cabots Quilt) at the turn of the last century. No water on wall, window or ceiling. Fiberglass batts are R3.5 for every inch, but spray foam . He told me I dont have plywood on the outside of the house. But greed and speed are often right there as well. This vertical wood siding weather protection technology made an early appearance in Canada with log piece sur piece buildings constructed by the Hudsons Bay Company.3 In England the practice was to install the weatherboards horizontally in the form of clapboards. Clapboards were traditionally riven boards in that they were split totheir appropriate thickness. This technology subsequently made its way to New England with the colonists.4. Oh, some of the exterior and interior linings have changed and we did begin to fill the cavities inherent in frame construction, but the fundamental structural system of walls has not changed much over the past 150 years. Im hoping we can have more of a cathedral ceiling on the trailer, a beam separating the trailer and addition, and the cathedral ceiling on the addition side. Im also wondering if we can remove the existing trailer ceiling/roof to see straight through to the new roof. While cellulose insulation is one of the earliest insulation materials still used today, it didn't become a popular choice until the 1950s. Id like to put it in the vault of the ceiling. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. For many years now new mobile homes have been required to meet HUD standards for wind resistance. Is there any water in the A/C ducts? I have located where one of the center beams runs and will locate the safe over the beam near the middle of the trailor. I suspect getting a watertight seal using the approach you describe takes some skill and attention to detail. They're harder to lift and the headers on exterior walls require more work. I would like to cover the floors with plywood and then install wood floors I know I will have to do some shimming. Weatherboarding is a term Europeans use to refer to the cladding installed on the exterior of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another either vertically or horizontally. The nails, screws and glue used in assembly are essential. We live in CT and are going to have a modular home built. I wonder if you need to check with an insurance company/agent with more mobile home insurance experience?Good luck,PaulHenry GoetzThanks Paul. Lumber's price remains well above its pre-pandemic range of $350 to $500, however. Traps have been set. I am sure there are ways to strengthen supports and distribute the load, but I am not qualified to make suggestions.Paul, Edward DeMatteoI am getting close to retire and looking at a 55 + community where they have a 2004 fleetwood 1470 for sale for 24k with a garage and driveway. Once a fire retardant was added, cellulose became a popular insulation material option. Will it hold a king sized free flow waterbed in the master suite at the end of the home?PaulIm thinking that if waterbeds fell through the floors of mobile homes it would make the evening newsSo you should be fine.I did see a couple of bedrooms where the waterbed leaked. I have replaced floors because of this. if you want a power boat without wood at all, there are many now using engineered stringers or stringer tubs. It makes me wonder what could be done by someone with a case of caulk who knows what he is doing.The thing is, while the wall construction looks fragile, it did meet HUD standards. body walking around the table as I play?Thanks!-TomPaulIm still around, sometimes. The timbers bound the four sides of the frame. I'm going to guess that the heyday for brick foundations was 1890 to 1935. Last year, a sharp drop . A wind zone map that might be helpful. Can it be cut out?PaulHi Dena,Your question is getting deeper into structural engineering than I am comfortable trying to answer. The first really big thing was the shortage of skilled labor. I never tried anything like that. The 1980s. Allan, Could you post a picture? The pay back on 2x8 construction in years VS $ would not be worth it. This won't delete the articles you've saved, just the list. The interior wood lath and plaster began to be replaced with plaster covered plasterboard lath in the 1930s and then with gypsum wallboard in the 1950s. As soon as the walls are placed, the electricians can begin pulling the lines that were dropped in place by the floor crew. The 2x6 itself costs more, and it costs more for the door frames being a non common size (jambs are typically made for a 2x4 stud wall). Early on I was a creationist,1 now I am an evolutionist. If that is the case with yours removing them is fine. The heartland around 1800 did not have many skilled carpenters or stonemasons or skilled anything. Manufacturers and dealers love to blame each other so at least some manufacturers video tape the inside, Read More Mobile Home ManufacturersContinue, I am frequently asked for help finding someone who does good, affordable, repair work. On December 19, 2014 the Government of BC made a revision to the BC Building Code 2012 in order to increase the Energy Efficiency and Ventilation requirements of new homes and renovations and. Holes have already been cut in these sheets for the water and drain line penetrations. It would make sense in some of the circumstances she describes.If you have the skills & energy, I think your efforts would be much more rewarded & rewarding if you applied them to a handyman stite built home. All this sets the stage for three really, really big things that didnt seem like really, really big things at the time. It is the 2x6 stud, usually 8ft long, which are used for framing the exterior walls around the whole house. Assembly. HOME; INTERIORS; EXTERIORS; OFFICE & PORTRAITS; PUBLICITY/EVENTS; CONSTRUCTION; INFO That is a simple payback of 52 years. Homes built prior to 1976 had only one or two inches of insulation wrapped around the walls, floor and ceiling, 2 x 2 or 2 x 3 studs, uninsulated air ducts in the floor and ceiling, no ceiling vapor barrier, and jalousie windows. During transport the bumps, vibration, and other forces twist and torque the homes and frequently crack panels, loosen connections etc. The interior boards may have been an experiment in putting the sheathing on the interior so it could double as lath. On smaller less expensive worker cottages there is often no board sheathing and no building paper just the clapboards. A physical inspection needs someone young and skinny who knows where to (carefully) place their hands and feet or you will be coming back to the website to look into ceiling repairs. Modular Home 1992-1996 - 1248 sq. The industry standard wall for most of North America circa 2000 was a 2x4 frame at 16 inch centers with OSB sheet sheathing, a house wrap made from plastic, vinyl or cement board siding (cladding or weatherboard), lined on the inside with gypsum wallboard and insulated within the cavity with a fiberglass batt. That's what the term 16 OC, or 'on center' means in construction lingo. We are trying to roughly figure out what a 1971 Safeway 48x24ft trailer weighs empty. When you buy a older mobile home on leased land you are REALLY locked in. Alan, Saw marks don't photograph well; but the lower part of the photo is clear enough to tell it was cut by a circular saw mill. The standards that must be met depend on where the home will be located. I am havingtrouble with the kitchen sink drain. However, they represent two distinct evolutionary branches but with a common ancestor. Big posts or staves take a lot of work and use up timber so folks started to set them farther and farther apart. Do you hear any gurgling noises?Depending on how agile you are, wear coveralls and bring a powerful flashlight so you can get under the home and look around. It may also be used in areas where extra soundproofing may be needed, such as near a highway. There are no doubt multiple ways to meet the standard, none of which the insurance company is qualified to evaluate. Guess what the animal dung was for? Why? That is NOT a place you want to experience.Paul, KaraHi there! This other filling was often referred to as nogging and typically took the form of wattle-and-daub. Split branches or slats were woven together between vertical stakes creating a lattice (wattle) that was traditionally covered with a plaster-like material made of some combination of dirt, clay, sand, animal hair and animal dung and straw (daub) (Photograph 3). Workers are rewarded for speed and penalized for errors in ways that encourage teamwork and put pressure on them to work as a team. timber framing seems to have evolved from palisade construction where logs were embedded in the ground vertically side-by-side supporting a roof. WillPaulYes, I think the weight is getting out of hand and you are asking for more problems.Keep in mind that mobile home manufacturers have engineers on staff full time. Is there any weight restrictions that we need to be aware/concerned about.PaulNot being an engineer I dont know any specifics. How will they look in the future? Warranty repairs require huge amounts of travel time, and things that would have been simple to fix during construction are much more difficult to handle. The most recent changes to Chapter 30B occurred on August 9, 2016, when the Governor signed An Act Modernizing Municipal Finance and Government. If a couple of tires go at once and the frame hits the ground, it can be bent, making future leveling impossible. Can I remove the flat ceiling and vault the ceiling? You might find this link entertaining http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JackGreen.shtmlI suppose one of them could find a small soft spot but even that seems unlikely.Enjoy your party.Paul, Manufactured home warranties Mobile homes come with warranties. We have a roof built over our trailer (and existing addition alongside); I want to open up between the trailer and the addition. Of course that is seldom done because it takes more time and materials. Manufactured home wallboards range in thickness from 5/16" to ". The price of nails fell so fast that by the 1850s nails cost less in Chicago than the tax on European nails. Liquid glue is spread on the top of the floor joists and frame members, and sheets of tongue-and-groove plywood or OSB are nailed in place. The completed floor is then rolled to a prep area where one person gets under the home and drives lag bolts through the metal frame members (outriggers) and into the floor joists. They're inset on the floor with dado cuts that securely join the floor and walls. At the same time, the plumbing people are installing showers and tubs and the cabinet and mirror people are fastening their things in place. The home is hooked up to power, water and gas and everything should get tested. TiaI have a very old single wide mobile home 1046 (built in the 1950s or 60s I believe.). In December, lumber prices hit thier lowest level, falling briefly below the $400 per thousand board feet mark (a key indicator for the market performance of this commodity.) Anyway, now Im ready to build, have been looking at modular homes, and realized that is basically what Im now living in, except for roof and trailer frame. While the roof is being done, others are fastening siding. Really. I have to almost gut floor sag issues (roof shingle layers weight bearing is in excess so bowing floors all exterior walls out). Cut the 4 x 4 to a length that makes a tight fit between the top of the block and the bottom of the wall. or 24 O.C.? If you want a boat guaranteed to not have wood, get a snark sailboat, an aluminum canoe or a blow molded plastic kayak. Over time the wattle evolved into horizontal wooden lath supported on smaller vertical members called studs. 271. At the very least, could I remove the existing, ugly ceiling and replace it with the bead board or some other material?VickyPaulCertainly you can replace the existing ceiling tile with something you like better. In the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (HUD) Title 24, Sbtitle B, Chapter XX, Part 3285 describes Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards, given for 2022 and older years in the list below. Could you add extra supports that are resting on the wall & marriage line? Specify 24-inch on-center for 2x6 wall framing rather than 16-inch on-center 2x4 wall framing. If you believe archaeologists (I mean when have they ever not been right?) Hope this is of some help: I was wondering if there was a quick way to find out where the wires are. The software is designed to block using energy savings from heating and cooling equipment, trust me I tried. The nominal 2x4 thus became the actual 1 x 3, imperceptibly, a fraction of an inch at a time. Homes that are not quite ready to ship will back up in the yard. Pargeting is often referred to as the decorative relief in the plaster itself. It sounds like your house was built with attention to air sealing. If you have lots of wood available to you, why use wattle-and-daub infill? On June 15, 1976, HUD established construction and safety standards for mobile homes because they were becoming widely-used as permanent housing. We might be able to estimate based on the style. Chris Deziel has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in humanities. The next series in this installment is Insulation Pricing- A Complete Guide. The most prominent area is in the kitchen. Great builders add 2.5 inches of closed-cell foam to the headers over windows and doors to help cut down on energy bills. Im wondering if my electrical connection is under the trailer or in the walls? Any idea what this thing sticking out from under the trailer could be and if it is a serious problem?PaulWithout a picture I cant be sure, but on older mobile homes the hitch was frequently left in place and the skirting cut to fit around it. If this is to be a metal roof, there is no decking and a large roll of metal is unrolled over the house. My problem is where the carport is attached has pulled away and drooped. Hi Kevin, i have attached a few photos, they are the best my phone can take, i can dig out the camera if need be, i found some flat nails when i was removing the fiberglass in the headers for the cellulose, so i assume that is what the house is made of Click to reveal What is 2x6 construction? You have to know exactly what the problem is and who is responsible for it.
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