The McCabe Residence passed the Energy Code Using the Performance path with the approved software REM Design. Daniel OwensAlso my attic is not vented. These mobile homes were the type that went up like tinder boxes, before industry standards were in place. Wattle-and-daub has a lime plaster coating. are put in place, wall mirrors hung etc. Is it functional? Use tab to navigate through the menu items. R&D courtesy of the US DOE Building America Program. I found some newspapers from 1976 which is when it appears they installed the heavy metal chimney through the middle of the house, put wood on the "headers" in the basement (but not crawlspace) and did some other upgrades. Openings for windows and electrical outlets are cut. Is there? It is the 2x6 stud, usually 8ft long, which are used for framing the exterior walls around the whole house. Walls. It is fastened at one end and then stretched from the other. JackieI have a 1998 16 x 80 Skyline mobile home with the original roof/siding. I think it would probably even be cheaper since you would not have the costs of working on the existing roof. Mobile homes are built as a single engineered unit. If this is to be a metal roof, there is no decking and a large roll of metal is unrolled over the house. It seems like a huge expense. So is this a common problem? A collection of one thousand construction details organized by climate and house part. Mobile homes only one. 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. I was thinking about removing the roof and replacing it with roof trusses ,Covering that with plywood and shingles or new metal. This design using R-15 wall insulation passes the Michigan Energy CodeWhat? In the 1930s fiberglass insulation was invented by the Owens Corning Company to insulate homes. We have installed 16 pine tongue and groove boards around the house to give it a cabin feel. Frames Belly paper 16 wide is unrolled for the length needed and stapled to the wood frame that will run around the perimeter of the home. Look hard enough and close enough to be sure a problem has not been recently painted over. I have thought about opening the wall and sister-ing each stud with another 2x 3 board so that the wall will be sturdier. However most of this type of construction is in recent years (past decade) Maybe until the first snow? Pry off a piece of interior trim from around the door or a window. As a result the faucets become covered with rock hard lime deposits quickly. And it gives extra room in the walls for insulation, plumbing pipes and electrical fixtures. My question is since I didnt have plywood before, wouldnt the added weight be too much for the frame?PaulIm not qualified to answer your question since I am not an engineer. They got wet and they dried. I have not pursued it seriously, i could spend time at the library going over very old records and maybe find some historians but thats a lot of effort which i don't really want to go through. I am in Alaska, so also intend to put vertical 2 x 4s in the interior walls, and insulate the hell out of this place!! So the old shingles have to come off. The term clapboards comes from the Dutch klaphout (klappen, to split, crack). Drivers occasionally rub against traffic signs etc. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Although it is more expensive than 2-by-4-inch framing, 2-by-6-inch framing is used for a number of reasons. Faith YoungHi Paul. No comments to show. In the early years of regulating building construction, this caused a patchwork of building codes across Canada. Mobile Home HumorContinue, Effective complaining about mobile home problems requires knowledge. It certainly wasnt designed for it. 54.173.119.173 There may or may not be a building paper between the clapboards and the sheathing. A layer of rock-wool insulation is blown in on top of the ceiling. suaziz.com 2021. Besides, homeowners do so much creative work you couldnt trust the plans in any case.Im afraid you are on your own.Paul, Mike BizzaroAll Im in a Buddy mobile home.There is a nocturnal pest of some sort in the ceiling. 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. 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. Performance- This method is based entirely on energy use. However, I never messed with load bearing walls and cant offer any specific suggestions. After that, all the savings go directly into your pocket. We are needing an estimate because of a fire and the demolition costs included getting rid of contents as well.It doesnt have to be exact but ballpark would be fine. So check your rough sawn boards. Using approved software, make your proposed design house use the same or less energy than a reference house. Your statement has made me rethink my next projectremoving the original tub / shower surround and replacing it with a ready-to-install shower base and fully tiled walls using ceramic subway tiles.My tub runs along the outside wall. Alan, Saw marks don't photograph well; but the lower part of the photo is clear enough to tell it was cut by a circular saw mill. It makes me wonder what could be done by someone with a case of caulk who knows what he is doing.The thing is, while the wall construction looks fragile, it did meet HUD standards. Photograph 5: Building AmericaAdvanced frame 2x6 structure, studs on 24 inch centers, single top and bottom plates, 1.5 inches foil faced polyisocyanurate insulating sheathing. Constructed shelters were one means by which human beings were able to adapt . The heartland around 1800 did not have many skilled carpenters or stonemasons or skilled anything. If the I beams fail, can I fix?PaulMake the most of it, spend the least possible, consider any money spent as spent, not an investment. It's a good idea to know the size of the framing in your house. ft I also want to side the place. When moved in asked for inspection and was told the Mobile home is structurally sound. Look for drips under the water heater. Where are we going? Fundamental questions that should be asked as they tell us who we are. I have looked online for some type of electrical plan or layout, but I guess they dont just put it out there. If you are a developer building 2,200 sq/ft houses, saving $2,141.90 per house can add up! CarolWe have a double wide and want to take down a closet in the middle of the kitchen, to open up to the living area, should be be worried about a support beamPaulIf the wall you want to remove is on the marriage line where the two halves of the house come together you do NOT want to remove it. The interior wood lath and plaster began to be replaced with plaster covered plasterboard lath in the 1930s and then with gypsum wallboard in the 1950s. I see, mine are rough sawn and of course old. Log construction in the New World broke into two distinct types: the American interlocking corner approach and the Canadian (and obviously more superior) horizontal construction with corner posts. Both were readily displaced by timber framing due the savings in materials much less timber is used with timber frame construction than with horizontal log construction. You have to know exactly what the problem is and who is responsible for it. Were houses insulated in the 1950s? Floors. Prescriptive-In order to meet the code prescriptively (just do what the code says) you have to have a wall cavity R- value of 20 or you can have a cavity R-value of 13 plus R-5 continuous. At what ACH do i need to consider an HRV (i also have a gas cooking stove and chimney vent water tank, furnace was replaced with 95.5AFUE with intake and exhaust 6 months ago). But the big unknown is whether it is possible to transfer the restructured onto a block foundation with floor trusses, dropping the metal frame underneath. I would be a little concerned about weight. Im a little worried that the glue will not last long and assuming this is how all the ceilings were put together.PaulHi Ashley,I wouldnt worry about it.They build the walls & and ceilings on a large jig that means the assembler just lays the wood in the marked places and nails/screws them together. During the late 1940s or early 1950s, builders in many areas of North America switched to planed 2x4s that measure 1.5" x 3.5". We didnt. 110 sheets. Michael kelseyI have a 2003 champion double wide that was just set up and do not have power to the master bedroom and den. And the first building papers were not good for water control in any event they were sized rosin paper. I have about a a 12X12 tear in my floor insulation, of course, under my ac ducting. when did 2x6 construction start in albertahomer community schools calendar. I am of course talking about walls. Some builders say that they HAVE to be 2x6 for insulation and strength purposes. A. I'm sure that the demise of brick foundations happened at different times in different areas. Copyright 1997-2023, buildingscience.com Corporation What is 2x6 construction? I want to move the stove to the middle of the kitchen and build an island around it. That should make things much easier! For example, valuable land where no new homes were allowed. In the factory at which I worked for a few, I know that. The pay back on 2x8 construction in years VS $ would not be worth it. I just recently modeled a 2200 sq/ft house with a 2-car garage, lets call it the McCabe Residence, in the energy modeling software REM Design. 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! Your chances of recovering any of your investment are zero.I have heard from people in special circumstances where it made sense. The dishwasher may be on the sink drain line but I dont know because I have never used it.PaulIf none of the other drains are having problems the blockage must be closer to the sink. OSB, even thin sheets, has to be substantially heavier than metal.Take a look at this link An Inexpensive Metal Roof You Can Install Yourself. I think it is just what Im looking for. Artificial Wood Paneling. The 2x6 itself costs more, and it costs more for the door frames being a non common size (jambs are typically made for a 2x4 stud wall). The trusses were designed to handle a load from the top and would never stand up to the use you describe. The nominal 2x4 thus became the actual 1 x 3, imperceptibly, a fraction of an inch at a time. 2x4 construction: $3.00 sq/ft- 2x4 construction and use 3" of closed cell foam in the cavity. As I was researching this project I ran across a similar study on a 2,350 sq/ft house with similar details and the author came up with a total cost increase of $1,951.56 or $.83 per sq/ft of living space. PROBLEMS - Over time, the shingles will succumb to the weather. (Yeslots of money not wisely spent I knowI knowI knowbut had to live there much longer than planned and I couldnt stand the added depression from living in ugly.) It is faster and cheaper to build and it provides a 5.5-inch cavity for insulation rather than a 3.5 inch cavity. The result is that all the water, sewer, and electrical lines in a finished home are above the insulation where they will stay warm from the heat in the house. The frame wall is undergoing another revolution (okay, it just seems that way because not much has changed in 150 years) a 2x6 frame at 24-inch centers and single top and bottom plates is likely to replace the conventional 2x4 frame. Screwed these strips to the ceiling trusses. They normally arrive at the jobsite in 20'lengths. The metal track attached to the 2x 6 board weighs approximately 25lbs and will span a distance of 5 at the top of the wall next to the ceiling. 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. Good thinking about where to place it.Paul. The completed frame is lifted, moved over, and set down on top of the axles and wheels that have been assembled elsewhere. Then a bunch of American entrepreneurial inventor types came up with machines that could make nails very fast and very cheap. Big posts or staves take a lot of work and use up timber so folks started to set them farther and farther apart. Hope this is of some help: #11. Look under sinks for evidence of leaks. Disappointed about the 2 vertical supports from the ceiling to the roof about 30 from the outside will More fink supports in the trusses would be stronger.After a strong storm I had replaced the single sheet of sheet metal roof (actually strips crimped together) with 26 gauge -5 rib metal. 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. You dont want to cut, remove or mess with those. c. 30, and M.G.L. We have the recommended number of jack posts installed. Ive had several spots that leaked due to snow on the roof (I live in Iowa and the polar vortex last year wasnt easy on my roof). Amazing, but true. Hired a civil engineer who told me it would meet residential building codes with these few changes. The weight will be directly over the I beams which is good.I dont know what sort of feet come on pool tables but if you wanted to distribute the weight you might consider putting down some plywood squares under the table. Siding. Should I do anything? Carpet is installed, windows are caulked, interior doors are hung, etc. Developed in the late 1970s, OSB is made of rectangular wood strands glued and pressed together. Mobile homes manufactured in 1976 or later were built to much higher standards required by the HUD (US Government Dept. Did water get under it, was the soil not properly compacted, etc. Modular Home 1992-1996 - 1248 sq. The use of pre-fabrication goes back over a hundred years. Cut the 4 x 4 to a length that makes a tight fit between the top of the block and the bottom of the wall. These same bolts are what can be adjusted after the home is set, to stop floor squeaks. Balloon framed buildings are certainly lighter than those built with the earlier braced frame method, but in my experience, properly constructed, they have survived quite well. Then, if the house is getting a shingle roof, plywood or OSB decking is nailed over the trusses. 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. Transport. I am sure there are ways to strengthen supports and distribute the load, but I am not qualified to make suggestions.Paul, Edward DeMatteoI am getting close to retire and looking at a 55 + community where they have a 2004 fleetwood 1470 for sale for 24k with a garage and driveway. From mud huts and megalithic stones to mega highways and skyscrapers, the evolution of construction reflects mankind's ever . One more question for Paul: can we cut off the tongue and pull out the bench seat existing?PaulHi Alison,Cutting off the tongue shouldnt be a problem. That is how I found the problem, it was fastened I think jus below the top plate. to seat and then tighten again? My problem is where the carport is attached has pulled away and drooped. That's down 49% from its $1,515 all-time high on May 28. The door will weigh approximately 40lbs. They can pull the trap a long way before they stop moving. The factory handles the home itself; the dealer is responsible for making sure the home was ordered properly and any optional features are installed properly, the setup company is responsible for setting and leveling the home, and hooking up the water, gas and electricity. That seemed to signal the end of lumber's roller . You might find this link entertaining http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JackGreen.shtmlI suppose one of them could find a small soft spot but even that seems unlikely.Enjoy your party.Paul, Manufactured home warranties Mobile homes come with warranties. Ten percent less lumber (board-footage) and 30 percent fewer pieces. Even homes with so called permanent foundations have a gap between the bottom of the mobile home wall and the top of the foundation.Leslie FayThanks for the advice/information!!! Look around the refrigerator for water damage from the condensation pan overflowing or a problem with the water dispenser connections.Turn on the water to the tub and sink, let it run for a minute or two and then flush the toilet two or three times. And for us more progressive folks I see a much greater thickness of exterior insulating sheathing and a hybrid cavity fill an R-50 wall. Holes have already been cut in these sheets for the water and drain line penetrations. I am intending to use 1x 6 boards for the door, a metal track system from National Hardware, and a required 2x 6 board to attach everything to the wall. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. 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