How to winterize my mobile home?
How can I get my mobile home ready for winter? Seems to always be cold.
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Do you have skirting enclosing it? If not, that's a start but you can add rolls of insulation underneath the flooring by stuffing it up into any crevices and the frame of the mobile home. Also around the perimeter inside of the skirting will help a lot. Weatherstrip your windows. You can buy warm window type coverings that are quilted to keep out the cold. It's no fun being cold!. Maybe you can check with your city or town to see if anyone in your area does free energy audits. They can offer you the best ideas for products and ways to use them that will help you.
Do you have skirting around the bottom? Check for gaps and seal them up.
Put new heat tape on the pipes so you don't get frozen lines. An insulated blanket for the water heater is good.
Weatherstrip the doors and windows. Use spray foam around openings for pipes, etc.
Vacuum out the heat vents and dust the furnace and replace the filter.
Check your roof for missing shingles- it's no fun dealing with in the winter. If you have gutters clean them.
Hello, I have one more thing to add. I lived in a trailer and I put the large bubble, bubble wrap up on the window like you would with window film. Just spritz the window with a drop of dish soap in water and spray on the window and then put the flat side of the bubble wrap over you window. Then I used the shrink wrap type window covering. Those trailer windows are almost like having no windows at all.
If you live where there is lots of snow, you'd be amazed at just how shoveling a thick wall of snow all the way around keeps
the floors warm, I used to do this around my mom's place, might need to do it again few times if too warm of days melt it, but it will be the last thing to melt, might sound crazy but I've seen the difference on my own bare feet.
When my brother was living in a travel trailer up north he rented a spot on a farm and the farmer let him stack bales of hay around his trailor. Straw is less flammable i think