A Guide To Renovating Your Mobile Home's Exterior

Today, manufacture housing has hit a level of sophistication not fully appreciated by the average public

. There are companies that are able to fully construct a home inside of their factory, transport and then assemble this custom home "on-site." This technology has also trickled down to the mobile home business and many manufactured homes today are much better structurally than their historical counterparts. After years of use, though any house can need a tune up, and manufactured homes are no exception. Whether needs for space change or if the walls just need painting, regular maintenance is a must.

Mobile home maintenance is different than other kinds of house maintenance because of the standard differences in creating mobile home rather than a typical house. The main support on a trailer comes from the walls on the exterior of the trailer, not from the wall on the interior of the home.

If you are planning to move walls around in your trailer, with the exception of the exterior ones that keep the rain out, you can pretty much do whatever you would like to the walls that separate the rooms and not change the structural integrity of the space at all.

It is very important to keep in mind that floors in mobile homes are not actually attached to any kind of a foundation, so it is imperative that their structural integrity be considered in all maintenance and renovation decisions or plans. If you cut out a wall, you must make arrangements for the opening that it will create in the floor of the home and react accordingly, so that the house stays sealed from animals and insects from the outside or underside of your mobile home.

Also, if you make the floor in the mobile home too weak you are inviting further structural damage in the house elsewhere. You don't want for anyone or anything to actually fall through your floor because you decided to make your living room bigger. It is necessary to fill all holes and reinforce the mobile home from the underside if it appears that sagging may occur.

Renovating the outside of your mobile home can make a huge difference, both in your use and in the way the house looks. Adding a nice porch, whether it is screened in or wrap around with give you more room to enjoy your mobile home and you can create a way of camouflaging the underside of the trailer, and create much more storage space with a large porch addition. The simplest method for adding a porch to a mobile home is to create a free standing structure next to the house so that stability for either part does not become an issue.

by: Nestor Wuplint

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