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by duckmansheba
Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:00 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Attic Venting
Replies: 8
Views: 31183

Re: Attic Venting

I am having trouble understanding how a home built in 2005 could come from the factory without any venting. Based on the comments here, it seems like this violates all kinds of common sense rules. I notice new manufactured homes have gable vents, roof vents, and vents in the overhang too. Thanks for...
by duckmansheba
Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:23 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Attic Venting
Replies: 8
Views: 31183

Re: Attic Venting

Thanks Everyone for your help. I am having trouble understanding how Fleetwood could manufacture a home in their Riverside factory (California)in 2005 and not be required to vent the attic. I am a realtor and see hundreds of mobile/manufactured homes that are older than mine, and many of them have w...
by duckmansheba
Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:34 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Attic Venting
Replies: 8
Views: 31183

Attic Venting

I own a 2005 Double-wide Fleetwood Mfg home with open (beamed) ceilings throughout. I always assumed that there was no space between the ceiling beams and the roof, however there is about a four foot high factory installed duct through the roof near the marriage line to the the ceiling in the living...
by duckmansheba
Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:05 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home
Replies: 4
Views: 1499

Re: High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home

Thank you
by duckmansheba
Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:17 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home
Replies: 4
Views: 1499

Re: High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home

Thanks Greg,
Any recomendations oa a good dehumidifer?
by duckmansheba
Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:04 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home
Replies: 4
Views: 1499

High Humidity in 2005 Fleetwod Home

I have a weekender home in the mountains of southern California. The weather is much like what they call "high desert" with extremes from snow to 110 degrees in the summer. The home is a 2005 Fleetwood doublewide, installed professionally, inspected and permitted and on a perimeter block f...
by duckmansheba
Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:54 pm
Forum: Mobile Home Repair
Topic: Mobile Home sub-floor
Replies: 2
Views: 1822

Mobile Home sub-floor

I am in the process of remodeling a 1973 double wide. Part of the remodel will be replacing the carpet and padding. Over the years, things have been spilled and soaked through to the wooden sub-floor and its smells a little musty but there is no mold or mildew. My question is: Can i seal the floor u...