The Manufactured Housing Forums

If you have an actual manufactured home, then you might could put a second floor on it, since they (especially the newest ones) are built to house standards; it'd be like building on top of a regular single-story house. Putting a second floor on, though, is really, really expensive. Probably pretty ...

I've never seen anything like plain, old ammonia for disrupting ants. I used to work in a store which was in an old, historic building. I was cleaning out the window display one day and saw a steady stream of ants marching through a crack in the window and on into the store. As I had a bottle of Win...

Thanks! That does seem like a workable idea (I looked again last night, and decided that even a thin-armed adult couldn't get between the two windows). I had never thought of using a squeegie on house windows, but that sounds a lot easier and faster than paper-towel-and-Windex, even on the easy-to-r...

My husband had a lot of trouble getting a mortgage in his name after his divorce for his 1986 single-wide on 5 acres of land. He was even approved for one loan, and then they backed out on him because they said they didn't give loans on trailers after all. Others wouldn't accept him because the land...

Yes, definitely get an electrician. We had a very similar problem in our single-wide trailer with crazy wiring. We overwhelmed the first electrician (couldn't fix the problem) and the second actually buzzed himself at one point. Took them, combined, two days to figure out why we had some outlets tha...

I'm afraid that's not helpful, seeing how my husband is a blacksmith and has the accompanying beefy arms! Lol. I can't even get my arm very far up in between. Do you think a professional window washing service would be able to handle it? That was what I was considering doing anyways, but thought I w...

If funds are tight and you can’t afford the cost of hiring someone to come in and get your home back to level, you may be able to do it yourself (this, of course, after pitching a fit to the company from which you bought your house to fix their mistake—if you are not the original owner, though, or i...

I live in a 20 year-old single-wide mobile home (Fleetwood, I think). I don’t think the windows have EVER been properly cleaned in those 20 years. We have regular “trailer” windows, where the bottom pane can be taken out of its track, but the top window is permanently attached. And, on the outside, ...