Preparing For Repairing Floor Joist In A Mobile Home

Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor.

Preparing for repairing floor joist in a mobile home.

Determine the area to be repaired. Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home. Level new subfloor area. In this video i take you through the steps i took to repair a badly rotted subfloor and floor joists.

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 either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb. Repairing floor joists costs 40 to 60 per square foot. 15 30 per square foot or 35 80 per hour.

Floor joist repair costs. Attach floor joist supports for subfloor replacement. 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 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.

Replace subfloor with new material. The previous owners never repaired correctly. We bought a used 1972 mobile home. That cost breaks down between labor and materials.

Joist repairs mean you ll have to tear up your top layer and the subfloor and replacing them. Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance. Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones. We need to know how to replace this.

Remove the damaged portion of the subfloor. The top of the aluminum siding is opened in places so when it rains the inside of the wall gets wet. 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. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering.

However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp. 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. The cost to replace repair or install subfloors includes two components. 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.