I would like to knock out 12 of the outside wall to enlarge the living room. Lets look at some insulation options relative to a baseline of 2x4 with R-15 batt: The cost to build with 2x4 prescriptively is extremely high, adding up to $6,264 in costs. From mud huts and megalithic stones to mega highways and skyscrapers, the evolution of construction reflects mankind's ever . Is there any way to get a second opinion? Builders sitting on scaffolding, 1920s. A frost-free faucet with a 4" stem will fit inside of a 2x6 wall, so there's really no excuse for a water line hanging in the middle of the room. In Old Norse load bearing posts were called stafr which gave rise to the term stave construction. He still sneaks up on you! Just for fun, I have attached a list of the defects a new homeowner might want to check for before accepting delivery of their home. Using approved software, make your proposed design house use the same or less energy than a reference house. The humidifier was removed with the old furnace, but is the cause the crawlspace caused ACH (its closed but not airtight to the rest of the house) or is there some other method that humidity is being stripped? Over time the wattle evolved into horizontal wooden lath supported on smaller vertical members called studs. So far, so good.Thank you for the additional information about the outer walls being supported by outriggers. 1949 National Trailer: 1949 National Trailer It also lead to the introduction of layers of horizontally installed boards thicker than the clapboards - called sheathing all for the purpose of supporting the clapboards. A. I'm sure that the demise of brick foundations happened at different times in different areas. We simply use 1"x6" lumber to frame around the door. The table weighs 700-800 lbs; dimensions are 3.5 X 7.Do you think there would be a problem with the floor supporting the table along with my 200 lb. They will dry out and start curling around the edges. Is there any weight restrictions that we need to be aware/concerned about.PaulNot being an engineer I dont know any specifics. I wonder if the problem will go away when you turn on the furnace? If your house . With the exception of spray foams, all the cavity insulations were convection suppressors with some radiation control properties they were not air barriers. Air tightness came from either sealing the interior lining (gypsum board) or sealing the exterior sheathing or sealing the polymer-based exterior building paper (more recently typically referred to as house wrap). And if the last twenty years are any indication of what the next twenty are going to be like hold on to your hats. Without the roof in place the walls have no lateral support.If you want a cathedral ceiling, which I can understand, you need to shop for a home that already has one.Paul, TerryHi: My wife and I bought a 1976 Barrington Mobile Home, our celling truses are 2+2. We still see this distinction today regionally in the United States and in Australia and New Zealand, no sheathing, just an exterior cladding. I have never seen any outside of the factory.Have you taken a pencil to the numbers for the work you plan? Im wondering if my electrical connection is under the trailer or in the walls? The decking is covered with tar paper and shingled. There are variations from factory to factory, but the homes are all built the same way. The standards that must be met depend on where the home will be located. I wanted to put a 7-foot pool table in the living room, which is in the middle of the house (the largest room). I am not sure what to look at to see if there is any problems and the reviews on fleetwood is less than good. The walls get a 14" top and bottom plate, as well as fire-rated interior paneling and often metal anchor bonding times for added rigidity. Installing electrical boxes and running wire is the process most likely to disturb the insulation. Work that took 15 minutes in the factory becomes a two man, two-day job for service. Put 14 strips on ceiling (ripped to 3 to match 5/8 by 3 decorative trim. If you are a developer building 2,200 sq/ft houses, saving $2,141.90 per house can add up! For example, sheet vinyl is just laid down and stapled in the factory. (Yeslots of money not wisely spent I knowI knowI knowbut had to live there much longer than planned and I couldnt stand the added depression from living in ugly.) The only significant changes since have been better tools (skill saws, nail guns) and platform framing which we got in the 1950s. OSB, even thin sheets, has to be substantially heavier than metal.Take a look at this link An Inexpensive Metal Roof You Can Install Yourself. Any London property built after 1983 should already have cavity wall insulation fitted, but in older homes it may not be present. In addition to continuous charts, the collection includes thousands of single-contract historical price charts that cover individual contract months from years past. This design using R-15 wall insulation passes the Michigan Energy CodeWhat? All this gets us balloon framing. Guess what the animal dung was for? You'd need to know if it's furring strips or a stud wall (one-by, 2x4's or 2x6's?). Here in rural Vermont, builders are still sometimes building new homes with rough-cut full-dimension 2x4s (or, more commonly, 2x6s) cut on a bandsaw mill. If this happens and is not corrected, the walls have voids which are going to reduce the efficiency of the heating and cooling systems. Im not sure I am visualizing your layout correctly, but things like seats are normally installed last and have no load bearing or sturctural importance.Janet SteuerI bought a 1969 Detroiter, 12 x 65 with a 12 x 50 addition on it.. a friend of mine put 6x6s in the entry between living room and addition room. Cleaned cattle hair and mineral wool came later followed by cellulose (the best use for the NY Times I can think of). JillDo you have any generic blue print style drawings that I can work off of? In the following paragraphs, I will go through the construction process. The price of nails fell so fast that by the 1850s nails cost less in Chicago than the tax on European nails. But regardless of its origins Chicago sure got balloon framing on the map it jump started the technology. 10 maybe. CarolThanks for your replay. OR am I just biting off more than I can chew and should just scrap the whole idea and not even try?PaulIn my (painful) experience it would be a big mistake. This is my first time living in a Mobile home so please forgive my ignorance in this question: I would like to have a party here but am unsure how many people I can invite because of the extra weight on the floor in the main area (front room, kitchen). It is something you must think about and decide when deciding to build. I see the industry standard wall for most of North America circa 2015 being 2x6 advanced frame at 24-inch centers with exterior foam insulating sheathing and a spray applied cavity insulation lined with gypsum board (Photograph 5). The energy savings from building with 2x6 are minimal and dont outweigh the costs, saving about $.02 per sq/ft living space or $41 per year. I was thinking about removing the roof and replacing it with roof trusses ,Covering that with plywood and shingles or new metal. I am of course talking about walls. 3535 (d), 5403, 5404, and 5424. That could include lime deposits, mold, damp smell, etc. "Was there a time when brick foundation walls were in general use or is that also variable?". #11. During transport the bumps, vibration, and other forces twist and torque the homes and frequently crack panels, loosen connections etc. I often did better using my time and money looking for a home that didnt need work.Paul, AshleyHello, I just bought a 2015 Doublewide and when it was being installed on my property there was some damage to the ceiling drywall so its currently being replaced but I was just told by the contractor that the drywall was glued to the ceiling and not nailed. How big was it? Any idea what this thing sticking out from under the trailer could be and if it is a serious problem?PaulWithout a picture I cant be sure, but on older mobile homes the hitch was frequently left in place and the skirting cut to fit around it. MonaHi Paul,Thank you for the very informative site. Last year, a sharp drop . Check out this link (http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1999/4/1999_4_50.shtml). We live in CT and are going to have a modular home built. Very similar! MattPaul, I want to build a 128 addition to my 60s 1260 mobile. If so will it empty if you try to run it?The problem has to be close to the sink.Paul. Asphalt shingle roof systems work great and are long-lasting up to 20 to 30 years. The total difference in cost to build your house with 2x6 exterior construction vs 2x4 is $2,149.90. As I was researching this project I ran across a similar study on a 2,350 sq/ft house with similar details and the author came up with a total cost increase of $1,951.56 or $.83 per sq/ft of living space. I would prefer not to post that kind of personal information, i apologize, I've tried what i can think of, its balloon framed, brick basement walls, made with barn board walls, its the first time i have seen plaster-lath-plaster,barnboard (1.5in thick barnboard), 2x4, (no exterior sheathing) exterior wood siding and vinyl siding (added on top about 10 years ago) Fiberglass batts came in the 1930s, first as partial fills and then as full fills. Perhaps test it in one room and watch it for problems? For any nominal lumber dimension over 6 inches, the dimensional size will be inch smaller. Any thoughts? ft. home, also is it just a matter of tightening the piers that are loose?PaulI dont know that there is any reason to re-level unless you notice problems. There are no doubt multiple ways to meet the standard, none of which the insurance company is qualified to evaluate. I have replaced floors because of this. The McCabe Residence passed the Energy Code Using the Performance path with the approved software REM Design. Finally the 2nd exterior wall is lowered and fastened into place. But in the last two hundred years we have been on a real tear. If you want a boat guaranteed to not have wood, get a snark sailboat, an aluminum canoe or a blow molded plastic kayak. Note the weaving of the wattle. The 1980s. I would like to install a ribbed metal roof over it on perlings. VickyI have a 1978 Conch Double Wide with a standard pitch roof. This distance will be a little more than 8 inches if you have 2-by-6-inch framing and a little more than 6 inches if you have 2-by-4-inch framing. Mobile homes can be a very affordable way to make a comfortable retirement home. Her roof is leaking. I have a 1986 D/W. In America, the first mobile homes were built in the 1870s. Daubers were the folks who plastered the outside of wood framed buildings.5 The ingredients yield the classic combination of binders, aggregates and reinforcement combinations that today form the basis of modern stucco.6 Wattle-and-daub panels that infilled exposed timber frames gave us the classic Tudor look - lime plaster (white) coatings between tar coated (black) timbers (Photograph 4). I need to know what kind of air conditioner was used on this model?This one has a unit on the roof. Authority: 42 U.S.C. Additionally, the ceiling is lowered onto the home and fastened in place with metal straps. The timbers bound the four sides of the frame. Am I able to take down the interior walls without worrying about structural integrity? Thanks.PaulThat is probably less weight than a piano, so I think it should be fine. You might try this link for starters and see if you have better luck http://archives.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ref/sfhp1-8d.cfmWhat it comes down to is that if your home has the HUD sticker on it, it met the standards when it was built. Warranty repairs require huge amounts of travel time, and things that would have been simple to fix during construction are much more difficult to handle. However, I never messed with load bearing walls and cant offer any specific suggestions. They can pull the trap a long way before they stop moving. 2X4 exterior Walls are actually acceptable exterior framing, it's just that you need r20, which you can't get with just fiberglass insulation in a 2x4 cavity. Chicago lumber futures bottomed below the $400 per thousand feet mark as persistent fears of a demand-sapping global recession prompted some profit-taking after a massive rally drove prices to an over three-month high in early February. The most recent changes to Chapter 30B occurred on August 9, 2016, when the Governor signed An Act Modernizing Municipal Finance and Government. c. 149 . 271. Daniel Owens1996 Schult New Generation 16 X80 includes 4 tongue. I have not tried this either, but it looks easier and should be cheaper.If you choose to go that route I would appreciate hearing back about how it worked out.Paul, DenaPaul, my mother recently purchased an early 80s mobile home and we are looking to expand the two bedrooms to one larger room.