I keep telling my wife that. I have convinced myself that. I'm still scared of the lack of skill sets and not having a helper. Thanks for the information. Rotten floor joists under the tub. Watching you do it helps me to get it done ❤
😂😂same here... I get so 👩🔧motivated and then I get up and look at what I have to actually do to accomplish such a feat. And that motivation quickly turns into a little reality check ✔️ ✅️
I'm so glad I came across this! My bathroom is bigger so I'm not as stressed out about getting my project done..... But then again I've only watched the first 60 seconds!!!
Thanks for your reply. I needed to take a break from the shower walls as I was starting to make an absolute mess out of the caulking. Before I finish it I better learn how to apply it properly!
It really makes you wonder, if mobile homes were built with proper wooden materials from the get go, like when someone fully remodels it, how much different would the initial price tags be as well?🤔 perhaps closer to a stick & stone house price? But I do love that he said if its made of wood, it can be fixed. The time & energy going into these repairs can be something for sure. Kudos to you guys for all the hard work you do, as well as posting the videos.🫶🤘
Trailers are definitely not made like a house. There is a lot of framing that just isn’t there in a mobile home. So we have to find a way to put it there. That is why you see us installing all the blocking around the outside edge. The tongue and groove is a great help because you don’t have to block there but if you don’t use tongue and groove you have to put blocking Where the Plywood Meet
I’ve watched so many videos and I’ve been saving them as I go (single mom with zero experience && no living relatives) but I’m struggling to find within your videos a material/tool list I’ve been observing and writing down everything I am seeing but can I request a list lol so far I have 3/4” vantex or adventeck, 2x2’s, polypro faced insulation. Tools I’ve got it nailed in my brain I’ll need a grinder and flap wheel lol, skill saw, hammer and deck screws lol what am I missing? I have to replace rotted floors and a roof. I paid someone thousands to replace both- they’re worse than they ever were so I want to make sure I get everything I need to do it myself. Thank you for posting all of these videos!
I left a scrap piece of Advantech Zip Board sheathing leaning against the fence in my back yard for about six months, exposed to the elements with the cut edge on the ground - I was expecting to come back to a pile of rubble when I remembered to get rid of it, but was shocked to find it was in perfect condition, and could easily have been used in a project! Amazing stuff... When did the mobile home industry move away from sawdust subfloors?
I have a hole near the bathtub. Shall I remove the bathtub too or just replacing of the damaged piece of the flooring is enough (but I suspect that the rot went under the bathtub and the adjacent wall). After watching this video and seeing what a crappy material was used for the flooring and the vanity I want to demo all of my bathtubs after I'll get my demolition reciprocating saw. :)
My recommendation would probably be take the whole thing out if you can afford it if you can’t afford it obviously framing around the problem would be a Band-Aid but if that’s all you can do a Band-Aid is better than none
I have repaired many mobile home floors, and believe me where I live no one wants to work on trailers. I’m working on one now in the kitchen the floor was sagging bad. I started tearing up old floor and the used staples about 2 1/2” staples to attach it PLUS they glued it too. Never seen on glued and stapled. Too bad they all used cheap particle board. I live in a 60 year old trailer, but have replaced all the floors, and in the bathroom, replaced floor joists too. I cast iron pipe for plumbing run under the trailer. I cut that out and ran pex inside the house. Once to get the floors and plumbing replaced, you have very few problems. God Bless ok
Thanks for your videos. I am redoing a small bathroom and ran into an issue where I need to move the shower drain. (Wife wants to change from tub to shower and wanted a specific shower which of course doesn't fit and I need to move the drain.) I had a small amount of water damage and cut that area out. Now that I need to move the drain I think I need to pull the entire bathroom floor and replace with Advantech. That will give me a uniform surface for the tile she wants. Am I thinking about this too much?
Curious on your square foot pricing for removal and install. How to you address removing the rotted wood under the exterior and interior walls. I see all the blocking you use. I assume all of the existing subfloor runs under the exterior and interior walls.
Ever try a pair of nippers for staple removal? I find them to be ideal...and if you don't feel like pulling the staple, you can just nip it right off too.
7:14 .....your not wrong! I'm having nightmares about staples! Lol! I pulled out a 2x3 out of a wall we knocked down. It's only job in this world was to hold up 1/4 inch sheetrock. We decided to take just one of many 2x3s and actually count how many staples it had in it. We got tired of counting after we counted 100 plus!! I am not even exaggerating! Oh and this was just one side that was holding the 1/4 sheetrock. I would love to go to a mobile home manufacturer and watch them build. I realize staples are cheap, but come on! I just don't get it! Are they just frustrated with their jobs, and shooting mass numbers of staples makes them feel better? 🤔 I dunno but it's insane!
So, I found a hole forming in my kitchen about 4 days ago and figured it was my heat duct and there was a hole in it. Over a few days it got about 3 feet around. Pulled up the linoleum and found a super soft spot and figured it was time to cut out a piece and see what's going on. My hot water line (poly B) was leaking and had a steady flow of steam coming off it. My whole house I'm pretty sure has been 2 layered for the sub floor. when I fix the pipe and repair it should I just do the whole kitchen? And only put down 1 layer? If you get the time to respond, I thank you!!!
Yes you should do the whole kitchen and just use one layer for the sub floor. Never a good idea to put floor over floor. You can do this. Call me 🤙 if you need to talk. I’ll send helpful videos
priced right when new and easy living since set down. what, new in the early '60's? i'd say it is not JUNK. the original buyer and everybody since has lived there inexpensively. i say they were as clever as anybody doing it to sell it. stay safe. thank you. vanity made of paper lasted longer than it should have. it is poor housekeeping that does many trailers bad.
For future toilet removal just buy some thick black garbage bags put toilet in it so your not getting sewage or water all over customers floor . Besides that great job!
I own a trailer and live in it and work on it constantly it's held together with flimsy 1x3 interior walls and gazillions of staples ridiculous it should be against the law to ever have built s*** like this and sell it to anyone guess I should have known better 🤬
On each side of the toilet, there are bolts remove. The two bolts in the toilet will come right up. There is a hose that goes from the wall to the toilet with a knob on it. If you turn that knob, the water should shut off.
We bought a mobile home about 6 years ago that was brand new but apparently it wasn’t set up right. Almost every single part of the floors in this single wide are falling in. Actually we have had to set planks of wood on top of massive holes that have formed. I have a special needs child and my husband has end stage COPD and congestive heart failure. I’ve got to fix my floors asap. I don’t know what to do. I have no extra money to do this but I’m smelling mold. It’s not a situation I want my family in. My husbands breathing is very bad and he is on supplemental oxygen 24/7 so having mold around can be extremely dangerous. I’ve got to fix this somehow. HI will do the repairs myself-how much would the supplies cost and is something with this much damage repairable? We don’t have the money to move so I’m not sure what to do which is why I believe repairing is the only solution.
I make a Lotta videos. If you wanna check out my channel you can look down through there on how to repair Mobile Home Floors. It’s not the easiest job but it can be done in one room at a time that’s a good thing about it if you go to my video page Drews Roofing, and Home Repair, and just scroll down through the videos I think you’ll see a lot of videos that will help you here is one video on us removing the floors in order to get ready to replace them. If there’s anything else I can help you with please feel free to call me or send me a request for a particular video and I’d be glad to send it to you. I’m sorry to hear about your situation. The best way to remove Mobile Home Floors is by watching this video and see how we do it one room at a time. ruclips.net/video/e-bHWLjqM2E/видео.html You can do it with a little help
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepair sorry it took me so long to reply- the comment got lost in my notifications it seems. Thank you SOOO much! I will be checking out that video right away. You’re informative videos are the hugest blessing ever! I honestly cannot begin to thank you enough. It has felt like such an impossible situation. We can’t leave-we can’t stay and we don’t even know where to begin to rectify the whole debacle. Watching your videos is giving me so much hope for the first time in awhile about our situation. You are amazing! God bless you!!!! I will definitely reach out if I have any questions or need a video on a specific situation we run across in this massive but do-able project we now have ahead of us. Thank you for offering to provide videos if I can’t find what we need in the ones you’ve already posted. Seriously you are the best!!!!
Best video of a tear down of a bath ever, just what I needed , have the exact same problem.
You can do it. I’m sure of it
I keep telling my wife that. I have convinced myself that. I'm still scared of the lack of skill sets and not having a helper. Thanks for the information. Rotten floor joists under the tub. Watching you do it helps me to get it done ❤
Great video! I just love watching skilled people work on their craft. I would be so intimidated to try such a repair, but I love watching you do it.
You can do it
😂😂same here... I get so 👩🔧motivated and then I get up and look at what I have to actually do to accomplish such a feat. And that motivation quickly turns into a little reality check ✔️ ✅️
Always afraid I'll start tearing in and find out I'm in over my head. Watching enough of your videos and starting to think maybe I can
You can do it. Trust in yourself
100% you can do it. Guarantee I’ll help you. I can talk you threw it on FaceTime
I'm so glad I came across this! My bathroom is bigger so I'm not as stressed out about getting my project done..... But then again I've only watched the first 60 seconds!!!
I hope this video helps
I have many more
Thanks for your reply. I needed to take a break from the shower walls as I was starting to make an absolute mess out of the caulking. Before I finish it I better learn how to apply it properly!
It is so easy to do. Call me I’ll explain. Maybe even FaceTime
910-294-1761
"Raccoon Condo" had me rolling!! 😂😂😂 Thanks for the in depth video. Fantastic job
Glad you enjoyed it!
It really makes you wonder, if mobile homes were built with proper wooden materials from the get go, like when someone fully remodels it, how much different would the initial price tags be as well?🤔 perhaps closer to a stick & stone house price? But I do love that he said if its made of wood, it can be fixed. The time & energy going into these repairs can be something for sure. Kudos to you guys for all the hard work you do, as well as posting the videos.🫶🤘
Trailers are definitely not made like a house. There is a lot of framing that just isn’t there in a mobile home. So we have to find a way to put it there. That is why you see us installing all the blocking around the outside edge. The tongue and groove is a great help because you don’t have to block there but if you don’t use tongue and groove you have to put blocking Where the Plywood Meet
Paul, definitely, deserves a raise!
He makes $25 an hour up to 50. Actually, Paul gets paid well.
I’ve watched so many videos and I’ve been saving them as I go (single mom with zero experience && no living relatives) but I’m struggling to find within your videos a material/tool list I’ve been observing and writing down everything I am seeing but can I request a list lol so far I have 3/4” vantex or adventeck, 2x2’s, polypro faced insulation. Tools I’ve got it nailed in my brain I’ll need a grinder and flap wheel lol, skill saw, hammer and deck screws lol what am I missing? I have to replace rotted floors and a roof. I paid someone thousands to replace both- they’re worse than they ever were so I want to make sure I get everything I need to do it myself. Thank you for posting all of these videos!
Call me Wednesday afternoon I’ll talk to you on the phone 910-294-1761. I’ll give you a material list.
Nicely done. The crazy old tub in that mobile home. That is old
It sure was my friend
you two are in your element, doing it right...tanks for sharing
Yes we are
I wish you were in my area in Texas! You do a great job!! Love watching your videos!
Thanks so much!
Thanks!
You bet! Thank you that’s the first time anyone ever gave me anything. Very much appreciated my friend. Very much appreciate it.
Great video Drew can’t wait to tomorrow one
Coming
I left a scrap piece of Advantech Zip Board sheathing leaning against the fence in my back yard for about six months, exposed to the elements with the cut edge on the ground - I was expecting to come back to a pile of rubble when I remembered to get rid of it, but was shocked to find it was in perfect condition, and could easily have been used in a project! Amazing stuff... When did the mobile home industry move away from sawdust subfloors?
It’s amazing. I have a piece now I used on my door for under my house it will last forever
I have a hole near the bathtub. Shall I remove the bathtub too or just replacing of the damaged piece of the flooring is enough (but I suspect that the rot went under the bathtub and the adjacent wall). After watching this video and seeing what a crappy material was used for the flooring and the vanity I want to demo all of my bathtubs after I'll get my demolition reciprocating saw. :)
My recommendation would probably be take the whole thing out if you can afford it if you can’t afford it obviously framing around the problem would be a Band-Aid but if that’s all you can do a Band-Aid is better than none
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepaircan i double up supports and get a better/heavier tub? idk how heavy i can get away with
try a bullnose plyers for the staples work great
Good idea I’ll try them
Can you show how to go from polybutane or whatever that grey plumbing is called to Pex ? That would be a great video
I’m not a plumber
I have repaired many mobile home floors, and believe me where I live no one wants to work on trailers. I’m working on one now in the kitchen the floor was sagging bad. I started tearing up old floor and the used staples about 2 1/2” staples to attach it PLUS they glued it too. Never seen on glued and stapled. Too bad they all used cheap particle board. I live in a 60 year old trailer, but have replaced all the floors, and in the bathroom, replaced floor joists too. I cast iron pipe for plumbing run under the trailer. I cut that out and ran pex inside the house. Once to get the floors and plumbing replaced, you have very few problems. God Bless ok
Sounds like you have it figured out
Perfect job....
Thanks Paul
Thanks for your videos. I am redoing a small bathroom and ran into an issue where I need to move the shower drain. (Wife wants to change from tub to shower and wanted a specific shower which of course doesn't fit and I need to move the drain.) I had a small amount of water damage and cut that area out. Now that I need to move the drain I think I need to pull the entire bathroom floor and replace with Advantech. That will give me a uniform surface for the tile she wants. Am I thinking about this too much?
You can do it
A little bit of elbow grease, and you can do it if it’s made of wood, you can fix it
What type of plywood do you use for a sub floot?
Vantex or adventeck. If you watch my videos, you would be able to see it written on the floor. If you use it, you’ll never replace your floor again.
Curious on your square foot pricing for removal and install. How to you address removing the rotted wood under the exterior and interior walls. I see all the blocking you use. I assume all of the existing subfloor runs under the exterior and interior walls.
Yes, it does and sometimes you can get it out and sometimes you can’t
THANK YOU!!! PAUL IS THE MAN! PLEASE WEAR GLOVES!
Ever try a pair of nippers for staple removal? I find them to be ideal...and if you don't feel like pulling the staple, you can just nip it right off too.
Is that anything like bullnose pliers somebody else mentioned that in the comments
Good video, love it.
Glad you enjoyed it
7:14 .....your not wrong! I'm having nightmares about staples! Lol! I pulled out a 2x3 out of a wall we knocked down. It's only job in this world was to hold up 1/4 inch sheetrock. We decided to take just one of many 2x3s and actually count how many staples it had in it. We got tired of counting after we counted 100 plus!! I am not even exaggerating! Oh and this was just one side that was holding the 1/4 sheetrock. I would love to go to a mobile home manufacturer and watch them build. I realize staples are cheap, but come on! I just don't get it! Are they just frustrated with their jobs, and shooting mass numbers of staples makes them feel better? 🤔 I dunno but it's insane!
I agree every word
What is the name of the good flooring thats good for if it gets wet did they say and where is ot sold
Advantec
I show it in almost all my videos
So, I found a hole forming in my kitchen about 4 days ago and figured it was my heat duct and there was a hole in it. Over a few days it got about 3 feet around. Pulled up the linoleum and found a super soft spot and figured it was time to cut out a piece and see what's going on. My hot water line (poly B) was leaking and had a steady flow of steam coming off it. My whole house I'm pretty sure has been 2 layered for the sub floor. when I fix the pipe and repair it should I just do the whole kitchen? And only put down 1 layer?
If you get the time to respond, I thank you!!!
Yes you should do the whole kitchen and just use one layer for the sub floor. Never a good idea to put floor over floor. You can do this. Call me 🤙 if you need to talk. I’ll send helpful videos
@ I will sir, you’re a god send sharing the stuff you do. Bless you and thank you! Got the plumbing done floor is next.
Even if there is skirting you find signs of some kind of critter?
Yes
Did Paul accidentally sawzall through the trunk line? (32:58)
Lol. Yes
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepair 😄😄
Keep up the great videos
Thanks, will do!
Give Paul a raise and a set of knee pads 😅
priced right when new and easy living since set down. what, new in the early '60's? i'd say it is not JUNK. the original buyer and everybody since has lived there inexpensively. i say they were as clever as anybody doing it to sell it. stay safe. thank you. vanity made of paper lasted longer than it should have. it is poor housekeeping that does many trailers bad.
I love mobile homes, cheap living why I spend all your money on a place to live spend it on vacations or things you want
i have fixed floors in maybe 5 mobile homes people have no clue what takes, they really suck. doing a bathroom right now nothing worse lol
Do it like I do it Wil be good
So can you take the tub out without destroying it or should i just replace it?
I do not think you can take a mobile home bathtub out without destroying it
For future toilet removal just buy some thick black garbage bags put toilet in it so your not getting sewage or water all over customers floor . Besides that great job!
Agreed but to be honest, there wasn’t any sewage it was clean water
I own a trailer and live in it and work on it constantly it's held together with flimsy 1x3 interior walls and gazillions of staples ridiculous it should be against the law to ever have built s*** like this and sell it to anyone guess I should have known better 🤬
True they are definitely a different animal
@ 7:45 More garbage grey polybutylene pipe!
I hate that stuff, but I am not a plumber
How much was this job?
And then we charged him another $600 to do the bedroom
@Drewsroofingandhomerepair
How much was the price on the bathroom Drew?
We charged $900 for the bathroom and $600 for the bedroom we did not do the whole bedroom
@Drewsroofingandhomerepair
Thank you so much, Drew!
I need the same exact things done to my place. Now I have an idea how much it will cost me.👍
Glad to help
Can you show how to take up a toilet & how to cut the water off from the side of it
I don’t have a video this one of that. I’m sure you can find window on RUclips somewhere I just don’t have one.
On each side of the toilet, there are bolts remove. The two bolts in the toilet will come right up. There is a hose that goes from the wall to the toilet with a knob on it. If you turn that knob, the water should shut off.
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepair ok thanks but what to do if the water doesn’t cut off cut the main one off
I grind off staples
I do that sometimes
Never carry or pick up a toilet by the tank
Thanks for the tip
We bought a mobile home about 6 years ago that was brand new but apparently it wasn’t set up right. Almost every single part of the floors in this single wide are falling in. Actually we have had to set planks of wood on top of massive holes that have formed. I have a special needs child and my husband has end stage COPD and congestive heart failure. I’ve got to fix my floors asap. I don’t know what to do. I have no extra money to do this but I’m smelling mold. It’s not a situation I want my family in. My husbands breathing is very bad and he is on supplemental oxygen 24/7 so having mold around can be extremely dangerous. I’ve got to fix this somehow. HI will do the repairs myself-how much would the supplies cost and is something with this much damage repairable? We don’t have the money to move so I’m not sure what to do which is why I believe repairing is the only solution.
I make a Lotta videos. If you wanna check out my channel you can look down through there on how to repair Mobile Home Floors. It’s not the easiest job but it can be done in one room at a time that’s a good thing about it if you go to my video page Drews Roofing, and Home Repair, and just scroll down through the videos I think you’ll see a lot of videos that will help you here is one video on us removing the floors in order to get ready to replace them. If there’s anything else I can help you with please feel free to call me or send me a request for a particular video and I’d be glad to send it to you. I’m sorry to hear about your situation. The best way to remove Mobile Home Floors is by watching this video and see how we do it one room at a time.
ruclips.net/video/e-bHWLjqM2E/видео.html
You can do it with a little help
I wish I could do more to help your situation. Like I said, if there’s anything that I can do as far as videos, feel free to contact me.
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepair sorry it took me so long to reply- the comment got lost in my notifications it seems. Thank you SOOO much! I will be checking out that video right away. You’re informative videos are the hugest blessing ever! I honestly cannot begin to thank you enough. It has felt like such an impossible situation. We can’t leave-we can’t stay and we don’t even know where to begin to rectify the whole debacle. Watching your videos is giving me so much hope for the first time in awhile about our situation. You are amazing! God bless you!!!! I will definitely reach out if I have any questions or need a video on a specific situation we run across in this massive but do-able project we now have ahead of us. Thank you for offering to provide videos if I can’t find what we need in the ones you’ve already posted. Seriously you are the best!!!!
When I started making these videos, I made him for people like you that would appreciate it and thank you for your appreciation
That is tiny
Very
I don’t have a clue how to fix a damn thing 🤦🏾♂️
I have videos that will help I hope. You can do it
ruclips.net/video/PZS3QTOz-nI/видео.html
@@Drewsroofingandhomerepair thanks my man, I definitely need to learn
Come on guys…remove the trim first
Ok