How To Repair A Mobile Home Bathroom Floor

Overall the styrofoam offers better support with way less creaks.

How to repair a mobile home bathroom floor.

Replacing mobile home floors. It takes just as much work to install cheap materials. This stuff is easily damaged by moisture. Step by step process to replace flooring in a mobile home.

I wrote how to install laminate flooring to show exactly how it can be done and how it looks in a mobile home. Mobile home floors how to repair them flooring problems in a trailer. Nancy i have a older mobile home with soft spots through out. Remove the trim and floor covering.

In the bathroom i would suggest covering all the old with new plywood. 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. Mobile home floor repair. I would not have much trust in a bathroom floor repair done with particle board.

Installed access door showing a peak at the main shut off behind it. How to repair your mobile home floor in a single wide trailer. Waiting too long to repair the subfloor in your mobile home could result in an unsafe hole in the floor. Under carpet and other materials many older mobile homes have the cheapest flooring imaginable.

The styrofoam sits directly onto the floor. The savings in materials cost is to small. The first step to replacing rotted flooring in a mobile home is to remove the trim and floor covering. Photo courtesy of carrie savage finalist in the 2016 mobile home makeover contest.

I have some experience with floors but i ve been hesitant to do the bathrooms as i do not know the proper procedure for reinstalling the toilets. For most floors in a mobile home i think wood laminate flooring makes a lot of sense. The old bathtub should now be loose and able to be lifted out and removed from the bathroom. This is a quick and dirty list of the basic steps needed to replace flooring in a mobile home.

I have 3 bathrooms in my mobile home. As an extra tip if the floor in your bathroom has soft spots then the water damage most likely has spread underneath the wall into the adjacent bedrooms. Replace or repair a mobile home bathtub. Once it gets wet it will retain that water and the water spreads easily.

Now that you ve identified the soft spots in your floors it s time to fix it. It looks good is reasonably easy to install and is easy to clean. I would not use osb for any of this.