Under carpet and other materials many older mobile homes have the cheapest flooring imaginable.
How to fix a hole in a mobile home floor.
Use a shallow setting on the saw blade to avoid cutting into the floor.
This stuff is easily damaged by moisture.
However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp.
The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering.
Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones.
Remove the trim and floor covering.
We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor.
Photo courtesy of carrie savage finalist in the 2016 mobile home makeover contest.
Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor.
To repair a mobile home under belly and or replace mobile home insulation you will likely need some polyethylene underbelly material a black tarp like material belly repair tape or both.
If the hole has developed near the toilet remove the toilet from the floor and pull up the floor covering.
How to fix soft spots in a mobile home floor if you re reading this chances are you re interested in how to fix soft spots in a mobile home floor and you re looking into doing it yourself.
All done from the top side.
Mobile home floor repair.
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.
Newer mobile homes will either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb.
Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home.
This material is found on the bottom of most manufactured homes built since the 1980 s.
Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance.