The nails, screws and glue used in assembly are essential. PaulHi Paul; I want to add a 30x16 porch to a 12x65 trailer, will the outside wall sustain the roofweight or should Iuse 44 under the 2x6x30 board?PaulDont add ANY weight to the home! JillDo you have any generic blue print style drawings that I can work off of? Mobile homes are built to handle snow loads and other stresses, so there may be enough strength to do what you plan, especially since what you describe spreads out the load.It may not apply in your case, but many mobile home owners dont realize the walls are supported on outriggers which are not designed to hold extra weight either. cathyI wish to know what mph winds can a singlewide mobile home withstandPaulFrom the weather reports I can see why you might be worried, but unfortunately, there isnt an easy answer. You will have to have a local A/C person take a look at it to tell you what you are dealing with. We have a very large collection of books that are placed in teak bookcases which are also very heavy. "Any idea why they would have used barnboard then plaster then lath then plaster again and no exterior sheathing?". Im wondering if my electrical connection is under the trailer or in the walls? Everyone who has done home renovation or repair projects knows that. The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes . Due to financial hardships, I am thinking of moving back and working on it while living in it.Thank you for the book referral as well. It can be argued by that one evolutionary path for sheathing was wattle to wood lath to board sheathing to plywood to OSB to insulating foam-board sheets. It's fairly common to see stucco-clad buildings in California without any sheathing, and clapboard siding was often installed directly on the studs in many older wood-framed buildings in the Northeast, especially in rural areas. 1.1: What Is OSB? Areas of the floor that will be covered with vinyl get sanded. What needs to be done would depend on what cause the house to get out of level. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Explore if there is a path to code compliance with 2x4 construction. And not knowing I just let it go until now. You do NOT want to do anything that might weaken them.It would be much cheaper to buy a bed that fits.PaulTammieI was afraid that was the answer I was going to get, lol, thank you for replying, Paul. Pargeting is often referred to as the decorative relief in the plaster itself. My experience was that it was very hard to add enough value to make such extensive renovations worthwhile from a financial standpoint. He has autism and would greatly benefit from having one. Your addition should totally support itself. The most recent changes to Chapter 30B occurred on August 9, 2016, when the Governor signed An Act Modernizing Municipal Finance and Government. A lot of information out there is geared toward the energy efficiency benefits of building with 2x6, well we cant say that anymore. Not much changed until spray foams became popular in the 1990s. Scope Construct framed walls using advanced framing details like using the minimum amount of wall studs permitted by code to reduce thermal bridging and allow more space for insulation. In the following paragraphs, I will go through the construction process. We live in CT and are going to have a modular home built. I have been an HVAC installer, insulation company owner, HERS Rater, BPI Building Analyst trainer and energy auditor. recently I noticed that the floors around the total perimeter of the house sagged anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2. The third really big thing was the milling of logs into dimensional pieces of lumber each one the same as the next and the really important part these dimensional pieces of lumber were mass-produced. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Trimout is where the mistakes get found and, hopefully, taken care of. Developed in the late 1970s, OSB is made of rectangular wood strands glued and pressed together. I MIGHT have water before winter sets in this year.PaulGood luck with all that.I find it hard to imagine making a mobile home weather tight in your climate.Paul. I have not tried this either, but it looks easier and should be cheaper.If you choose to go that route I would appreciate hearing back about how it worked out.Paul, DenaPaul, my mother recently purchased an early 80s mobile home and we are looking to expand the two bedrooms to one larger room. What is 2x6 construction? Guest #11 03-29-2002, 01:49 AM Re: 2x6 walls? 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. The first really big thing was the shortage of skilled labor. I think it would probably even be cheaper since you would not have the costs of working on the existing roof. So the old shingles have to come off. with the additional lath and plaster added after they had trouble wit the plaster sticking. Pre-assembled water and sewer lines and the ductwork for heat/AC are dropped in. 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. The function of the OSB sheathing is support for the siding, shear resistance for the 2x4 frame and a contribution to the assembly air tightness. PaulI have a 2000 Homes of Merit double wide. And it gives extra room in the walls for insulation, plumbing pipes and electrical fixtures. Last year, a sharp drop . Finally, it is moved to an area where the holes for electrical outlets, ceiling fans etc. ft. home, also is it just a matter of tightening the piers that are loose?PaulI dont know that there is any reason to re-level unless you notice problems. I would step all around toilets, sinks, windows, doors, etc. The home is hooked up to power, water and gas and everything should get tested. Big posts or staves take a lot of work and use up timber so folks started to set them farther and farther apart. The changes were effective on November 7, 2016. Do you mind sharing your opinion on installing a barn door on an interior wall of a 1981 Marlette? Does water back up anywhere? The sheathing and house wrap functions are being combined we already see hybrid OSB systems with an exterior surface that is also a water control layer. Can it be cut out?PaulHi Dena,Your question is getting deeper into structural engineering than I am comfortable trying to answer. If this is to be a metal roof, there is no decking and a large roll of metal is unrolled over the house. You may have good reasons why it is the best approach for your situation. It certainly wasnt designed for it. 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. He told me I dont have plywood on the outside of the house. Once the word gets out, I predict a big increase . ERI- There is a requirement when using the ERI method that mandates you follow the 2009 prescriptive code, no exceptions, which requires R-20 wall cavity or R-5 continuous and R-13 cavity. The end of World War II caused the modular market to truly explode and greatly evolve. The problem is that after all that time and effort you would still have an old mobile home or an old trailer. By the beginnings of the 20th century the wood frame wall pretty much looks familiar to many of us. You might want to look up Trailersteading by Anna Hess on Amazon and read her thoughts. If you are a developer building 2,200 sq/ft houses, saving $2,141.90 per house can add up! Rachel Jones. The argument goes that colonists, not happy with wattle-and-daub infill over their timber frame buildings, installed clapboards on the outside walls for better weather protection. Learn why at EGStoltzfus Homes we use 2x4 wall construction for our residential homes and how it can save you money. The owner of the insulation company, who is also a builder, notes that the cost to extend doors and windows to accommodate a 2x6 wall is substantial because everything that is standard is made for 2x4. The perimeter of the floor where it meets the walls sag bad. Guess what the animal dung was for? Oh yeah, its for a light/ceiling fan set up.Thank you!KaraPaulThe manufacturers are very shy about releasing any information. In general, homes built before World War II were likely to be built with rough-sawn full-dimension 2x4s. ft One of the exterior side walls is lowered into place on a bead of caulk and fastened into place. The following description is for a single-wide factory. Any thoughts? The wire that was coiled in the belly is pulled through these sleeves and up into the walls of the home. I dont know any way to be certain where the wires are except look.That said, they dont like to waste money running more wire than necessary. Holes are drilled through the bottom of the wall and the floor material and metal sleeves hammered into place. In the Scandinavian countries the vertical boards were used to protect timber and log structures from weathering. The safe weighs 500 pounds and will end up being 600 pounds fully loaded. This continuous historical price chart for Lumber futures (LB, CME) is part of a huge collection of historical charts that covers decades of North America futures / commodity trading. It has been argued that it happened the other way around. Very similar! The combination of materials you describe -- interior boards, plaster, then lath and a second layer of plaster -- makes for a fairly airtight interior finish surface. Image via CupofSpring on AdobeStock. But IAlisonsorry to continue. Performance- I have passed using several different home designs. If that is not a good idea how do I best care for my roof against any chance of leaking?PaulThe only problem I see with your plan is that the walls of the home were never designed to support the kind of weight your plan would put on them I would suggest adjusting your plan to add posts which support ALL of the weight of the new roof. Thats what a thousand years of evolution will get you. The total difference in cost to build your house with 2x6 exterior construction vs 2x4 is $2,149.90. Conclusion Newer manufactured homes that conform to HUD standards put in place in 1976 will provide a home that is built to weather the test of time. Frank Nunes, when I refer to you as a dauber I am not insulting youit was an honorable old profession and you are certainly getting older. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect." [2] 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. You might try this link for starters and see if you have better luck http://archives.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ref/sfhp1-8d.cfmWhat it comes down to is that if your home has the HUD sticker on it, it met the standards when it was built. Here is a link to the HUD standards for mobile home manufacture. With the exception of spray foams, all the cavity insulations were convection suppressors with some radiation control properties they were not air barriers. Air tightness came from either sealing the interior lining (gypsum board) or sealing the exterior sheathing or sealing the polymer-based exterior building paper (more recently typically referred to as house wrap). Im not sure of the construction but would guess there is nothing solid at that point to lag to. Ah, easy question, with clapboards and board sheathing it was to reduce drafts. I was wondering if I could just attach light weight bead board to the 22s (I assume thats whats in there! Wattle-and-daub has a lime plaster coating. Pry off a piece of interior trim from around the door or a window. G.LeeMy son had a 1992 single wide set up on my parents farm, which I bought to live in it while I cared for aging parents. Is there a safe weight guesstimate of the additional guests for the support of the floor ? I suspect getting a watertight seal using the approach you describe takes some skill and attention to detail. JonaThanks for your reply, sadly I dont have that kind of space available.
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