need suggestions on housing

[elijahboy]

next year i will be moving to 10 acres. That 10 acres has a 1985 mobile home thats bigger than the house i currently live in. I am not fond to the mobile only because the ceilings are only 7ft in height. I had thought about redoing the mobile home that is there with about 8,000. I have a guy who is very good on prices. Meaning pitching the roof to about 8ft in the middle, new walls, new floors, new cabinets and such. and the 1985 there will be just the way i like it and the walls will not be paper thin. Then maybe bricking it in and add new siding for about another 7,000. Or I can search out a used/newer/repoed one for about 30,000 and will prolly only need very minor cosmetic work but may not be designed the way i would like. Then the cost to move it which cost about another 8,000 and then the cost to brick it in. Plus it will have thinner walls than the 1985 after demo.

its more a matter of of looks and comfortability than money but of course money places a part just a small part. The 1985 is setup the way i would eventually buy one with the master bedroom on the other end of the house as the kids.

pls let me have your opinions about what you would personally do.

 

[Mackay]

My neighbors started out with a mobile home and remodeled it adding a kitchen, living room and spare bedroom on to it. They used lots of salvaged stuff too. They recovered the whole thing with wood so it looks like one unit and you cant tell from the outside, but inside you can kinda tell where the mobile ends and the new construction starts. The new part is all wood. The new stuff of course looks more substancial but it all works together pretty well and its tight and warm which is huge deal up here. Its pretty cute, has sky lights, sliding glass door to the porch and hot tub and they are content. The living room kitchen area has a high ceiling, not real high, maybe 11 feet but it feels spacious. They also added a wood stove. They did mess up on the foundation a little and that is getting repaired this summer. I think he did it by hand with not a lot of experience initially. Oh well. Live and learn.

If I were doing it, and we are, really consider a little sunroom on the south side for your seed starts and just to help keep the whole thing warm, but maybe that isn't a big concern in your neck of the woods like mine. You can always design to add that on later.

 

[elijahboy]

yeah no need for a sunroom in south carolina

but thats exactley what i plan to do just worried about pitching the roof and the weight of a 25 yr old mobile home

thanks for the encouragement also

 

[Mackay]

Have you tried doing a search on how to remodel a mobile home?

 

[elijahboy]

the person doing all the repairs has had to rebuild one from the ground up due to a fire

Have you tried doing a search on how to remodel a mobile home?

 

[drunkdog]

not sure what state your in or if the person who has obviously some experience is certified/liscensed in your state, my thing is IF you remember that the way mobile homes are built there is a metal frame. everything else rests on this brace this in the neccessary spots and the structure should infact support what I have read in brief (that is without reviewing your plans ofcourse). bearing in mind that any remodle is done with comparable mobile home materials (you must consider weight i.e. the thickness of the plywood/drywall/etc should be equivalant of the origional materials including the structural members....I carried a cert in Wa State to set mobiles for a couple years and have done extensive remodel/repairs on various projects including the one I live in a 1968 (the yea I was born even )

 

[journey11]

My brother bought an old trailer for $1000 and totally rebuilt it from the frame up. He's pretty handy though, and the only thing he had to have someone else do was the electrical. You can really save a lot of money, the more work you can do yourself.

 

[Wildsky]

How about a Yurt?

I just love the look of those - no clue how much they cost, they're just so cool looking!

 

[tortoise]

next year i will be moving to 10 acres. That 10 acres has a 1985 mobile home thats bigger than the house i currently live in. I am not fond to the mobile only because the ceilings are only 7ft in height. I had thought about redoing the mobile home that is there with about 8,000. I have a guy who is very good on prices. Meaning pitching the roof to about 8ft in the middle, new walls, new floors, new cabinets and such. and the 1985 there will be just the way i like it and the walls will not be paper thin. Then maybe bricking it in and add new siding for about another 7,000. Or I can search out a used/newer/repoed one for about 30,000 and will prolly only need very minor cosmetic work but may not be designed the way i would like. Then the cost to move it which cost about another 8,000 and then the cost to brick it in. Plus it will have thinner walls than the 1985 after demo.

its more a matter of of looks and comfortability than money but of course money places a part just a small part. The 1985 is setup the way i would eventually buy one with the master bedroom on the other end of the house as the kids.

pls let me have your opinions about what you would personally do.

There are people that build their own homes for near the $30,000 range. I'd be concerned about energy efficiency in a mobile! Can you live in the mobile, save up and build a house?

 

[elijahboy]

i can build a house now but i need it to be atleast 1600 sq ft with 4bdr and 2 bath and i only have 60,000 to spend and dont want to put everything into building a house cause im never going to sell the land or mobile home

next year i will be moving to 10 acres. That 10 acres has a 1985 mobile home thats bigger than the house i currently live in. I am not fond to the mobile only because the ceilings are only 7ft in height. I had thought about redoing the mobile home that is there with about 8,000. I have a guy who is very good on prices. Meaning pitching the roof to about 8ft in the middle, new walls, new floors, new cabinets and such. and the 1985 there will be just the way i like it and the walls will not be paper thin. Then maybe bricking it in and add new siding for about another 7,000. Or I can search out a used/newer/repoed one for about 30,000 and will prolly only need very minor cosmetic work but may not be designed the way i would like. Then the cost to move it which cost about another 8,000 and then the cost to brick it in. Plus it will have thinner walls than the 1985 after demo.

its more a matter of of looks and comfortability than money but of course money places a part just a small part. The 1985 is setup the way i would eventually buy one with the master bedroom on the other end of the house as the kids.

pls let me have your opinions about what you would personally do.

There are people that build their own homes for near the $30,000 range. I'd be concerned about energy efficiency in a mobile! Can you live in the mobile, save up and build a house?