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.

It s pretty easy when you know how. 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. 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. Here i show you how to fix it.

Vinyl will usually need to be cut around the perimeter of the room and tile will need to be ripped up. Mobile home floors how to repair them flooring problems in a trailer. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor. 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.

If it s carpet you will need to remove the strips. 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. Photo courtesy of carrie savage finalist in the 2016 mobile home makeover contest.

We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor. All done from the top side. It may require nothing more than simply sealing small gaps around your window panes with caulk. Under carpet and other materials many older mobile homes have the cheapest flooring imaginable.

If the hole has developed near the toilet remove the toilet from the floor and pull up the floor covering. This should be a simple fix. Use a shallow setting on the saw blade to avoid cutting into the floor joist.