Insulating The Floor Of A Mobile Home

Insulation plays a vital role in your family being comfortable in your manufactured home.

Insulating the floor of a mobile home.

It does this by keeping heat out of your home in the summer and in your home during the winter. It may also be placed in areas like crawlspaces and in the underbelly of mobile homes to further improve energy efficiency while reducing condensation. By adding skirting to your mobile home it reduces the air circulation underneath it and keeps the air inside warmer. Insulating under a mobile home with 2 foam board the mobile home s floor joists are on 16 centers which means the wood floor joists are placed 16 apart from each joist s center point.

Besides that it will be easier to lie on a barrier than on the plain ground. Since the joists themselves are roughly 1 5 wide the section between each joist was approximately 14 5 wide. Batt insulation is mostly used between studs in mobile home walls though many have used it between floor joists. Glue rigid foam insulation to the inside of the skirting for extra climate control.

You just staple the paper to the studs as seen in the photo below. While you can call a carpenter to do the job for you this is a project that can also be done by a savvy diyer. Seal any holes with wood cutouts or insulation stuffed into the holes. Before insulating your floor lay a moisture barrier beneath your mobile home so that it can prevent the ground moisture from infiltrating the insulation.

A suitable barrier would be a polyethylene plastic sheeting. These batts can come faced or unfaced. Make holes in the road barrier large enough for the spray nozzle and patching the holes when you ve finished installing the insulation. Insulation is commonly placed in the roofs ceilings walls and floors of mobile homes.

Faced means there is a plastic or paper sheet attached to one side that makes it easier to handle and install. Insulating under a mobile home floor optimizes heating and cooling ventilation which will save you money on energy costs long term. Remove the older insulation and plastic. Inspect the underside of the mobile home for damage holes or older insulation or plastic.

Remove any nests or debris handing from the underside of the floor. By lowering the heat transfer insulation helps your home to maintain a consistent temperature. When someone brings up insulation most people only think of fiberglass rolls or insulating foams in large quantities covering an entire area. This was achieved by adding a layer of insulation under the floor and then placing the wood frame on a steel frame that would hold the insulation in place.

It has always been imperative that the floors were insulated where much of the waste and water supply lines were run.