Manufactured home, mobile home, trailer, double wide...renovations?

Question

anybody have experience with home projects on a manufactured home? we took down the seams and are trying to mud and paint haha what a nightmare. we're trying to make it look more like a "real" house. eventually we will need to replace the cabinets and all, i'm terrified. all the materials used in our house are of poor quality and so much was done with terrible craftsmanship (too much to list). fortunately, it's brand new. does anyone have any advice or success stories that will make me feel better?

Answer 1

We had a mobile home and decided to use it much as you are doing. I took off the outside metal and redid all wiring. I changed all the plumbing to copper and installed proper breaker panels (Square D). a 12" wide concrete beam was poured for both main runners full length of home with steel plates every 4' to weld the frame to. All windows were replaced with double panes with storm. We added on so built trusses that spanned over entire home and installed regular composition roof. All of the older home and the new were bricked. On the inside, 3/4"plywood tongue and groove was put down. We sheet-rocked over all inside walls and ceiling and tape and bedded and then texture. I built all new cabinets from ash. There is no way you can tell now that it was ever a manufactured home. No sure I would do it again though although we didn't have a house payment. It took us about 15 years to get it all done doing the work our self. E-mail me if you want pics.