I have a 1985 Mobile home, 3 bedroom/2 bath, I bought my cousins 3bd/2bath for $1200. I added it to mine. I tore out a side wall a parked his backwards into mine, I now have a 6 bedroom 4 bath house. The problems are 1. electrical 2. plumbing 3. leaking/rainwater. 1st electrical, I have ran extension cords from the main house to each room, so every room has an outlet, we kept tripping over the cords so we have fixed that by taping the cords to the walls and ceiling..any advise? The leaking is happening where we joined the 2 homes together, I used about 40 tubes of calking but it still leaks like hell...any suggestions (we've tried covering everything with plastic..it's blows off)
Plumbing...how do I tie the water lines together?..How do I get the toilets to go to the septic? What we have here is a "T" shaped house, mine goes long ways and the addition starts in the middle and goes out from there. It's a real nice set up...but we are have these problems
2007-01-26 14:35:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
1st-run new cable from fuse box under the floors and through holes into each room, sealing the holes with foam insulation2nd plumbing-you will need to also run new pipes (PVC) from each drain in new addition to old drain system (making sure that the pipes have a slight down angle to them (use plumbers glue on joints of pipes) 3rd leaking-go to the hardware store and get a pail of roof patch (it is like a tar substance that is thick and is a tar you apply with a putty knife) and apply liberally to the entire seam of the joint between the two trailers (you could even lay down a thick plastic layer before applying the roof patch) You will also need to run additional water supply lines to the areas needing water (use copper tubing), but this is fairly easy to do and does not need to be perfectly level to work proper. Hope this gives you a starting point, and good luck on the renovations!!
2007-01-26 14:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by dragondave187 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have an addition from long ago off my kitchen. I am wondering if I need two separate sub floors that are not connected because one part is in the main house (kitchen) and one part is in the addition (an old porch with good foundation) or should I connect the two subfloors together with continuous plywood? I d like continuous and no break if possible..and I read somewhere that a two foot overlap would be best between the two rooms, but haven t seen this confirmed anywhere else.
2016-08-27 09:01:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the money you saved and hire a licensed electrician before you set yourselves afire. Hire a plumber too. And pour a concrete slab for it to rest upon or nothing will help. It will continue to shear apart because of settling and an uneven platform. Caulking is an adjunct, not a solution. You will have to find a way to join the two units mechanically. Spot-welding sheet metal inside and out may work but unless it is seen up close and personal, an evaluation is impractical. You need the help of professionals. Or live in the house that Jack built.
2007-01-26 14:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋