Mobile Home Floor Bowing

Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons.

Mobile home floor bowing.

I had a drain line burst under my home about a month ago though no water touched the insulation or floor boards as the line runs along the ground. Newer mobile homes will have it a little better than older ones. This week in our ask a mobile home expert series we are covering questions about mobile home subfloors. Since a mobile home is typically up on bricks or corner blocks there is a tendency for the floors to sag eventually.

Now a month later my floors are beginning to. Just the smallest amount of water can cause damage. Really though you may feel the floor sinking a signal that there s a soft spot in need of repair. Still if you have a soft spot or bowing in any area it s best to replace the subflooring in a mobile home quickly before it causes further damage.

Because soil shifts and house frames settle there is usually a slight variation in floor level. How to fix bowed floors. Both of these materials used for flooring are much better in regards to water resistance. Most every home with particle board subflooring will need to have their subfloors replaced eventually.

How to repair a hump in the floor. Subfloors are an important subject in the mobile home world. Hopefully this article will give you enough information to replace flooring in a mobile home yourself. A few years ago i replaced the insulation underneath my mobile home.

For instance more than one door will stick or swing or a window won t shut or latch properly. We lived in our home for 22 years and recently noticed a hump in a floor between the kitchen and the living room. Normally when a home becomes unlevel you ll be able to find more than one tell tale sign. If water has seeped into the boards they may swell against one another which can cause the bow.

The contractor told me all i needed to do was to staple the insulation to the floor joists so we did not replace the belly paper. Newer mobile homes will either use a better particle board or oriented strand board osb. However even homes with these newer flooring materials the floors can still bow soften and warp. If you have a noticeable hump in the floor however something.

Most newer homes now use a higher grade plywood or osb because it can withstand water better. You can have the entire unit raised and set back down on a solid flat foundation in which case you might as well buy a new house. Newer homes are slightly better. How to level sagging mobile home floors.