Preparing For Repairing Floor Joist In A Mobile Home

Repairing floor joists costs 40 to 60 per square foot.

Preparing for repairing floor joist in a mobile home.

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. 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. However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp.

Level new subfloor area. 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. Floor joist repair costs.

In this video i take you through the steps i took to repair a badly rotted subfloor and floor joists. This is part 4 of the prep work i am taking to remodel. That cost breaks down between labor and materials. Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance.

The top of the aluminum siding is opened in places so when it rains the inside of the wall gets wet. We need to know how to replace this. The cost to replace repair or install subfloors includes two components. Determine the area to be repaired.

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. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor. Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones. 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.

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. Remove the trim and floor covering. The previous owners never repaired correctly. Newer mobile homes will either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb.

Remove the damaged portion of the subfloor. We bought a used 1972 mobile home. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering. This is a quick and dirty list of the basic steps needed to replace flooring in a mobile home.