Question For Mobile Home Owners…easy Home Improvement?
I am considering purchasing an older mobile home that needs a bit of work. The price to own is excellent, and at first glance of mobile home supplies it looks very affordable to fix up like buy a new bathroom counter/sink, faucets, doors, widows, etc. Is home improvement as easy as I am assuming it is in a mobile home or are there a few “catches’?
I would first check to see if wiring is aluminum. Some mobile homes and houses have this cause it was cheaper than copper. If it has aluminum, I wouldnt buy it. My mobile needed a lot of work and most of the supplies you can get at a home depot
I’m in a mobile that’s 20 years old. So far, I haven’t found anything that isn’t fixed the way you would do it in a regular house, with the exception that the drywall is an odd size, so when I was redoing part of a wall it was pay a large price for the odd size stuff or re-do the whole wall with conventional thickness drywall. From what I’ve gathered from my own experience and from what others have said here, there isn’t a lot that you need to buy special as “mobile home supplies”. That, of course, might depend on the house, how old and who made it. But my faucets and sink and all are just like you’d find in any house. What you do if you have to replace plumbing, wiring, or heat ducts which are underneath the house, I don’t know but suspect that could turn out to be a bit tough. Mine has heavy plastic membrane that seems to cover all that stuff.
a few things on mobiles pluming is generally east to get to. power it depends on how old can be troublesome. and most of your counter and stuff the damnation’s are rarely common im mobiles but for the most part anything can be updated. and its harder to get older mobiles moved it your just buying the trailer