Mobile homes of this era used a grey PBX flexhose for the plumbing. I live in a semi-rural environment, and rodents abound. Occasionally one will get up into the skirting on the underside of the house, and chew on the plastic water hoses.
Normally I can hear the leak, as the water shoots out of the hose in a thin, pressurized stream. When it hits the subfloor, it makes a pretty distinctive hissing sound, and I know I need to crawl under the trailer and install a pressure fitting to fix the leak.
Well, I missed one. Evidently one particular leak had been going for a while and I didnt know it. Once the water soaked through the composite subfloor, the material warped. It was slightly convenient that it was in the middle of a room, as I dont know how I would have fixed it if it happened at or under a wall.
The warped subfloor wasnt really bothering me, I just stepped over the valley on my way through the room. But, my wife and I decided to buy some new furniture for that room and thus the impetus to fix the problem.
So the Media Room remodel will be to:
- Empty all contents out of the room
- Remove the carpet
- Remove the damaged subfloor
- Install a new subfloor
- Paint the walls
- Install a laminate wood floor
- Buy a new sofa
- Replace the molding around the doors, ceiling and floor
- Install wall-hung shelving for electronics
- Wallmount an existing flat-screen TV
- Reinstall all the other existing electronic stuff
I'll be posting periodically about my progress on this project.
I'm also keeping a photo collage of the progress:
