Squeaks happen when a house settles and wood flooring dries.
Squeaky floors in mobile home.
I would look for 3 4 or higher plywood flooring.
Mobile homes and modular homes are factory built and are built on a steel chassis.
Armed with your flashlight go under your mobile home.
Underneath the mobile home you will find the lag bolts that are spaced about 12 inches apart.
Having a second person available to stand in different locations can be helpful too.
Joists are supposed to attach firmly to the subfloor failure to which your movements on the floor could the detached surfaces to rub against each other.
My fleetwood home has 1 2 particle board flooring and has had one squeek after another fixed only to have another appear close by.
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Locating the noisy boards is very useful for installing something like squeak ender carried by magic mobile home supply.
The easiest fix for a squeaky wood floor is to stop walking on it.
That isn t realistic but it indicates the root problem with this issue is there is movement somewhere.
The most common cause of squeaky floors is the formation of spaces between the underside of the subfloor and the joists.
Although any floor can squeak hardwood floors and staircases are the common culprits.
And fixing squeaky wood floors is fairly simple.
I will tell you how to eliminate them.
Find out why your floor is moving in this article.
Also fleetwood has widened the supports under the house.
Once you figure out where the movement is and is coming from you will be able to quiet down your floors again.
After moving to a permanent site and set up they can sometimes develop annoying floor squeaks.
Once you are ready ask a helper or friend to walk along the marked areas on the floor.