What’s the best replacement flooring for manufactured homes?
Manufactured Homes July 2nd, 2009We are looking to install laminate, wood, bamboo, tile or other flooring alternative instead of the sheet goods that will come with our new manufactured home. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations? This flooring will cover the marriage line between the two halves of the unit, which is the area that concerns me the most.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
depending on the age of the home if its not over 20 yrs old you can install most any flooring, the floors dont sag as with the older models.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
i would simply say plywood, i’ve used it in mine and it worked well.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
For me, when the carpeting would get too bloody, I would find it easiest to just move into another home in the trailer park. The beauty of trailer parks is neighbors not only don’t really pay much attention but usually they don’t care much about their neighbors either. The trick here is you can’t make the original occupants bleed when you take them out, so it is best to find a trailer with only one person in it, ’cause otherwise you probably end up fighting SOMEONE or knifing them or shooting them or something else messy like that.
So, your best bet is strangulation or a sock full of nickels and a quick trip to the gravel quarry.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Once your home has been placed on site and finished you can use any type of flooring you’d like. I would however stay clear of ceramic as any deflection of your home’s floor will cause cracks in it. All other flooring has a degree of give that should work fine in your home.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Manafactured homes have a plywood subfloor. Due to the give in this as it is not sitting on hard concrete foundations such as a site built home, try to stear clear of the ceramic tile. The floor in your home will "give" and over time it gives more. You know when you are at one end of the home and you can kinda tell when someone is walking around at the other end? Over time those plywood sub floors will start to sag in some areas, that is just a fact you will have to replace the plywood subfloor in those areas and rebrace it from underneath the home. Try to use a flooring that will allow "give". Carpet, Vinyl, Laminate, Floating pergo type of laminate wood (for that hardwood floor look). Anything else you may start to see cracks or recessed/raised areas in the flooring itself.