Giving The Throne The Royal Treatment- Final Mobile Home Bathroom Remodel
How many times can one room be redone? When we first bought our home new, there was carpet in the BATHROOM. Ugh…why do they do this? So, almost immediately, after realizing that two young boys and carpet around a toilet do not belong in the same house...Contractor Pros and Woes- 10 Tips For Hiring Someone to Work on Your Manufactured Home
How many of you have used a contractor to do the work in your home? We normally don’t. Clearly, mobile or manufactured home owners have already made the choice to buy or live in an affordable home. This leads me to think that most of us are doing our...A Bathroom Remodel That Won’t Push You Over Your Fiscal Cliff
How many times can you remodel a room? Well, we’ve remodeled our kitchen twice. Once as an inexpensive “tie us over” until we have money remodel, and one serious reconfiguration and total renovation when said money was available. Our...
Mobile Home Bathroom-Redux!
Did your mobile home come with ugly wall board covered in flowers or thin, pale stripes? How about carpet in the bathroom, was that part of the stunning package you’ve been blessed with? We’ve never made it a secret that we’re perturbed by the crappy quality of our home’s construction and the miserable taste of those who decorated it. But, do we sit and complain about it? No, we change it! A couple of years ago we decided to stick with our mobile home rather than building a “stick-built” home. We aren’t made of money and remodeling this joint has to be an economical venture or it just isn’t going to happen. Our first serious endeavor was our master bathroom. This project was a total rebuild from the subfloor up and we did all of the work ourselves. We’ll try to be as specific about brands and products as we can in this post, so here goes!
We Love Compression Fittings!
If we had to choose one thing that annoyed us most during our mobile home makeover projects, plumbing has got to be it. While we’re not sure what they are like in newer homes, water lines in older (pre-2000) mobile homes tend to be oddly configured, plastic tubing, with no shut off valves at the source. No shut off valves at the source? Why does this make sense? Especially when so many mobile home bathrooms have carpet in them! (Oh wait, maybe THIS is our #1 annoyance now that I think about it!) We’re still scratching our heads over why you would put carpet in a room where there are water sources when you are going to use wafer board for sub-flooring. If you have carpeting in your mobile home bathroom, we have two things to say: “Good luck!” and “Get it out, NOW!” Maybe you have an opinion about this, which you are welcome to share in the comments section of this post.
But we digress…Now back to plumbing!
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Hi! We're The McGees. We love dreaming up new ideas for our double wide home and doing the work ourselves as much as we can. Visit us often to see what we're up to! And if you leave a comment, we'll be sure to respond. Thanks for visiting!
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