Releveling? Mold issue as well
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:53 am
We live in a 1998 Brilliant Homes, double wide 28X80 mobile home.
Down the hallway, one of the bedrooms is directly across from the airconditioner access panel, ac access, filter access all of the above. That bedroom is (empty) but smells of mildew, the closet which is on the inside wall, hall wall, is full of moldy dust like substance, game boxes on the shelves are covered in it, and walls, books that are in there, and such. Only thing is that it seems to be confined to that room. NO other mold issues or smells in other rooms at all.
Now the mold seems to be just on the surface of the sheetrock though, not like in the wall, is on the door to the closet, and ceiling area, but looks like a dusty cover of it, like i can wipe it off easily, but I still want to do it right, the clean up that is.
Now the other rooms, the molding seems to be pulling away from the walls. The back door has always been hard to shut/open. I am assuming that it needs to be releveled, but we just purchased this house, and money is pretty tight, we have been renting it for the last 2 years, now we are buying it. Is there any way to really check it, ourselves, then go from there. I did call a few mobile home places that do releveling, and was quoted anywhere from$600 and up, the highest actually took the time to listen that we have a concrete wall foundation thing, going completly around the perimiter of the house, and he said that since they have to go in by crawlspace that it would be way more expensive to relevel, because of the hassle of getting under there. One other thing was the acutal door frame of one of the other rooms, the press wood around it is like it is swelling, (assuming water) and buckling outward. That is one of the exact walls of the marriage line. The house has a full metal roof over the regular roof. It was professionally installed, and the company is still around, but we dont have those papers from our seller yet. Could it be a warranty from them to check out the roof for leaks?
Sorry lots of questions, just lots of smaller issues.
Thank you.
Stephanie
Down the hallway, one of the bedrooms is directly across from the airconditioner access panel, ac access, filter access all of the above. That bedroom is (empty) but smells of mildew, the closet which is on the inside wall, hall wall, is full of moldy dust like substance, game boxes on the shelves are covered in it, and walls, books that are in there, and such. Only thing is that it seems to be confined to that room. NO other mold issues or smells in other rooms at all.
Now the mold seems to be just on the surface of the sheetrock though, not like in the wall, is on the door to the closet, and ceiling area, but looks like a dusty cover of it, like i can wipe it off easily, but I still want to do it right, the clean up that is.
Now the other rooms, the molding seems to be pulling away from the walls. The back door has always been hard to shut/open. I am assuming that it needs to be releveled, but we just purchased this house, and money is pretty tight, we have been renting it for the last 2 years, now we are buying it. Is there any way to really check it, ourselves, then go from there. I did call a few mobile home places that do releveling, and was quoted anywhere from$600 and up, the highest actually took the time to listen that we have a concrete wall foundation thing, going completly around the perimiter of the house, and he said that since they have to go in by crawlspace that it would be way more expensive to relevel, because of the hassle of getting under there. One other thing was the acutal door frame of one of the other rooms, the press wood around it is like it is swelling, (assuming water) and buckling outward. That is one of the exact walls of the marriage line. The house has a full metal roof over the regular roof. It was professionally installed, and the company is still around, but we dont have those papers from our seller yet. Could it be a warranty from them to check out the roof for leaks?
Sorry lots of questions, just lots of smaller issues.
Thank you.
Stephanie