preventing sagging floors

[Harriett]

I am considering purchasing a pre-owned dbl wide mobile home. I have concerns about floors sagging or dropping in the areas near the floor registers in mobile homes. My relatives live in a dbl wide and have experienced this problem to the extent that the floors were like a roller coaster and had to be repaired with plywood sheets. These relatives believe that this was the result of condensation in the ductwork from the air conditioning since it started in the hot humid months of summer. Has anyone else had this problem and what can be done to prevent it? I intend to retire and want to live in a mobile home but don't like the prospect of this kind of trouble cropping up.
Also, if anyone has good reports on their mobile homes, including manufacturer's name, please get in touch....thanks!

[rmurray]

Sounds like your relative had pressboard floors...The easiest way to be sure you avoid this problem (which is not all that common even with pressboard) is to be sure your home has OSB or plywood floors....

There are hundreds of thousands of happy customers out there....happy customers go about their daily life and might not be here...

Seldom will you find high quality used multi sections on a dealer lot...(I represent a used home dealer as well as a new home dealer in my business life)....Most recent model doubles are reposessions...Most often the folks giving them back were not the most careful shoppers in the first place...Often these homes are coming from those looking for the cheapest home on the market..at the time they bought...

There will be many great homes being resold by owners....If I were you I would also consider new homes of quality as well...If you are retiring...the last thing you want is trouble...just a great home for the many years to come..so you can spend your time enjoying that well deserved time of your life..

Good Luck with your choice of homes...

[JoAnne]

My Son has a 1985 Redman single wide and has the same problems with the sagging floor in the kitchen. He bought the home last year and in front of the sliding door wall, and further in the middle of the kitchen floor it sags really bad. It's to the point that this will be a winter project to remove/replace the flooring.
It seems like the years '84 & '85 were bad years for Redman and flooring. My Mother in Law has an '84 double wide and had a water pipe burst under the house and the floor is nothing but pressboard and absorbed the water like a sponge.
Fortunately, it only affected the utility room, but that small room still cost over $1,300 to replace the flooring. On the other hand, we have a 2001 Redman man. home (double wide) and feel that ours is very well constructed. Things have changed for the good in the years between.

[Jessica]

We have dealt with sagging floors and found that often it is bowed floor joists. We have found that installing cross cribbing in affected areas allows you to draw bowed joists down and pushes others up as needed.

[kaye alexandra]

I may be responding a bit late to your question, but in our home we had 2x8 joists put in - this makes the floor more solid, and no sagging. The registers are not in the floors but in the walls, and I think this is much better.
Kaye