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.
How to fix a rotten floor in a mobile home.
Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home.
This is a quick and dirty list of the basic steps needed to replace flooring in a mobile home.
If this sounds like a recent retelling of your life then you will need to replace your flooring.
Soft spots are less common in newer homes that have plywood or osb oriented strand board subfloors.
They occur when the subfloor gets wet causing the sub floor material to begin failing.
Let s mention a couple of things about the above video.
Never fear replacing mobile home floors can be done in 7 easy steps.
First if you re expecting a high dollar video with actors that were makeup and every word smoothly rehearsed this video aren t for you.
We re replacing the rotten sub flooring in the old mobile home that was on the land we bought.
So it is important to find them sooner than later and take care of them.
Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor.
The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering.
Video repairing the rotten floor underneath your toilet shows how to remove the toilet repair the floor and re install the toilet.
Remove the trim and floor covering.
Soft spots on the floor can cause damage to other aspects of your mobile home.
It s going to make great storage space when we re done.