Mobile Home Pipe Connectors

Mobile Home Repair

If you visit a home improvment center you will find an overwhelming array of fittings and connectors for hooking up water lines, gas lines, sewer lines, water heaters and others. The vocabulary is strange and the variations subtile, but very significant. Glossary of terms: FIP – Female Iron Pipe. Used to describe a fitting threaded to go onto old [...]

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Mobile Home Cabinets

Mobile Home Repair

Mobile Home cabinets are some of the cheapest, poorly constructed furnishings known to man. They are frequently made of paper and held together with staples. In addition, the manufacturers build them them themselves from a variety of supplies. The supplies change frequently to meet changes in decor and lower prices from vendors. In other words, [...]

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Kneepads

Mobile Home Repair

If you haven’t been there, it may seem strange to have an entire page to talk about knee pads. However, especially if you are getting older and fatter like me, good knee pads are a wonderful thing. So, what to they do for you anyhow? Let you kneel on nail heads and glass without pain [...]

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Mobile Home Tubs

Mobile Home Repair

Mobile home bathtubs are NOT the same as those used in site built houses because they don’t have overflows. In addition they are supported above the floor so the drain line can go under the tub and down through the floor. You do not want to attempt to put a tub designed for a site built [...]

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Vinyl Flooring in Mobile Homes

Mobile Home Repair

At the factory they put the vinyl on the floor first and then set the walls on it. It takes about 10 minutes to sand the floor material and they just cut the vinyl and staple it around the edges. They don’t bother with glue. The guy who installs the floor registers is supposed to [...]

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Mobile Home Toilets

Mobile Home Repair

The good thing is mobile home toilets are just like those in site built homes. You probably don’t want to buy the extra large size because of space limitations, but all the normal toilets and parts are the same. Below are listed the symptoms and solutions for a series of common toilet problems. Just scroll [...]

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Wrenches

Mobile Home Repair

Since mobile homes are built with more plastic and other light weight materials there is less need for the heavy duty pipe wrenches and other tools required for plumbing repairs in site built homes. The only time I used my large pipe wrenches was to work on gas lines and I don’t recommend that for [...]

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Wood Panel Treatment

Mobile Home Repair

The wood paneling used in older homes can probably be replaced with a closely matching panel but since it makes the homes so dark inside getting rid of it or covering it up is a frequent renovation activity.The wood paneling used in older homes can probably be replaced with a closely matching panel but since it makes [...]

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Why DIY – Do It Yourself?

Mobile Home Repair

The most frustrating aspect of working in the mobile home repair industry is that it feels like the entire system is designed to guarantee poor workmanship. Every advice book ever written tells the consumer to get three bids before having any work done; but how many say not to always use the low bidder? How [...]

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Mobile Home Interiors

Mobile Home Repair

Mobile home interiors have been totally neglected by the authors of home improvement books. The common perception seems to be that no one who lives in a trailer would care about making it look nice. I know that isn’t true and have made plans a number of times to change that. However, this section is [...]

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