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Hi,

This is my first winter in a double-wide that I bought used. It is very cold along the floor on both sides of the marriage line, more so in the bedrooms, which are on both ends, rather than in the living room, which is in the center.

Might this mean that I have some gaps, and/or some gaps that are no longer insulated well? I can't believe that the guy who sold this had lived with this amount of cold in this home for several years! This is a 1996, and has always been set up on this lot. Do I need to have this re-leveled? I was told it was set up on piers, if that makes a difference.

I really like my home, but I'm getting discouraged. I recently had to buy a new furnace. All I really needed was a heat exchanger, but they had been on backorder for months, and the manufacturer didn't offer me a very good deal on a whole new furnace. So I went to a different brand of furnace that was energy-efficient.

I'm afraid this place is going to be a "money-pit'"!

There is suppose to be a seal installed between the marriage walls, sounds like the munfacturer/dealer/setup crew didn't install one. Not only that, it probably means the crack itself was not smoothed over with floor compound.

$ 10 will fix this. Get 2 cans of foam sealer from any hardware store. Go under the home, squirt foam in the crack anywhere you can get it to go. Not too much in any one spot or it may lift the carpet up inside. 2 hours and 10 bucks DONE!