Thank you for this video. I went to replace some insulation in the walls in my mobile home. I live in Montana and we have propane heat and very cold winters. The condensation is horrible on the windows, but I didn't think it would be on the inside of the walls, when I took out the insulation from the inside it was moldy, wet and also frozen against the siding on the outside. I didn't know what to do, or if this is normal, so here I am on you tube. It was reassuring to see that there is moisture on the inside of your siding as well, and that you gave us a solution of how to fix it. I also understand your rant about UA-cam. As the time that you spent to teach me this is invaluable, and it would have taken me a hell of alot more time trying to figure it out another way. Sometimes we take it for granted that if we need help or knowledge about something, well then we just "UA-cam It", but we need to remember that the people who make these videos take the time and money to make them for us. Thank you for such a great video!!!!!!
I'm glad I came across this video.. I kept saying there should be a moisture boundary between metal and insulation.. my mobile home is from the 80s and I have been remodeling.. but moisture issues are a major problem.. trying to figure out how to solve.. but I noticed..you said you don't have these issues running a wood fireplace.. well I have a wood heater.. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Thank you so much for the info. on the bubble wrap. I also watch Boss of the Swamp, and saw him put this wrap under his flooring, but it didn't occur to me to put this on the walls. ( A duh moment). I especially appreciated your advice on HOW to put it on a mobile trailer under the metal siding and over the wood supports. Makes a lot of sense. God bless.
It’s just condensation from the cold metal and your warm house. Once you put the insulation back in the wall it won’t condensate anymore. I have the same trailer I’m working on but I am ripping off the aluminum and boarding it with half inch board. I did put a plastic moisture barrier between insulation and drywall though. Never open up your ceiling in the winter and expose that metal while heating or it will rain inside your house lol yup I did that had to dry it off and get it sealed back up fast.
I agree with you Jiffytoast but you also have to remember Kerosene or propane heat puts off moisture and if I'm not mistaken Direct fired heaters burn gas to produce heat. When gas burns, it produces water as a by-product. Some fuels can produce up to 2 cubic feet of water vapor for every cubic foot of gas burned while propane produces 4 cubic feet of vapor for every cubic foot.
I know what you mean,,I quit a job making 63k and in my area that's great for a single guy..was trading my life for money. I eat, still pay Bill's. And dont need anything from our government!
I agree 100% on the time thing. That's one thing that can't be bought and I'd much rather just make it on less money & have time to do things that I enjoy as to be tied down working all the time for car payments and such. I prefer to keep things simple.
In two weeks I'll have baseboard heat to keep mine at temp and the propane heater will only be used when I'm there. I'm going to try and switch the unvented heater to a vented unit ASAP.
Bubble foil has many many uses. Great stuff. I'll just have to follow u here. Every dime I get goes to killing a tumor. Maybe one Day I can join patreon. It has worked well for many people and should work well for u.
Your doing a very good job on your place. If i had a following like you i would post almost daily. Even though i get no veiws on my vids i will continue to post vids on my renovations.
I hear you about our time and money ! Ive said in regards to this issue id rather have less money and more time than , to be working hard and long for nothing
Actually it depends on your climate. If you're trying to hold heat in the foil should face inside to reflect heat inside the house back into the house. If you're trying to keep the house cooler then it should face out to reflect heat away from the house.
Thanks, going to Lowe's to check out that insulation for my basement garage ceiling. I may be able to do it myself! So I need to take our relationship to the next level on patreon? 😃
HAHAHAHAHA I'f you'd like. I'd really appreciate it but It's not required. I'll still be posting on YT just not nearly as much since apparently YT thinks I'm a horrible person and has almost stopped me from monetizing anything.
I was thinking of propping up rolled insulation against the inside of the skirting to help protect under my house from the cold temps. Do you think bubble foil rolled insulation would work better?
Unvented combustion heating inside of a mobile home (unvented propane, kerosene, natural gas, etc) will do this. So will just living in the home, but maybe not to such a degree. It's basically warm humid air in the home touching the brutally cold exterior shell. Like a cold glass of iced tea on a hot humid summer day. The outside of the glass is the inside of your walls. Mold city. This is why I don't use such unvented heating appliances. That being said, my grandparents used kerosene heat for decades in their mobile home without issue, but their mobile home was also "very well ventilated". If enough of the cold outside air gets into the walls, it will dry it out a lot quicker so there would obviously be less of a mold problem. Vented heating appliances cost a bit more, but are well worth it. If kerosene were cheaper where I live, I would get a Toyotomi vented kerosene heater (which can burn kerosene or ultra-low-sulfur diesel). The specs seem to suggest they are quite efficient at what they do and vent to the outside. The problem is, kerosene here is $4 a gallon and those heaters are about $2K here lol. With electricity at about 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, it's cheaper to heat with electric. Propane is also pricey here, but there are "direct vent LPG wall heaters" you can get from places like Home Depot. I saw some around the $1-$2K mark, but with the cost of propane and the efficiency of those heaters, it's just not cost-effective in my current trailer (about a thousand square feet). By next winter I will be moving into a much smaller trailer that I just got hold of today (for free, just have to move it). It looks to be a 12x35ft and heating with propane might be viable. Kerosene might still be too much. I don't have access to natural gas due to the gas company wanting me to spend thousands of dollars to service my house. No thank you. In my current place, heating almost the whole place to around 60F costs at most around $200 a month. When I was using kerosene, it cost about twice that. Never used propane as a heat source.
When heating with Kerosense I only heat the living room and kitchen. I keep a heavy blanket covering the hall way. Usually I spend about $60 a month in Kerosene and my Electric bill is about $120. As soon as I can afford I'm going to get a wood burning cook stove.
@@MDC2020 I would love a wood stove but it would probably run me out of the house. They put off a lot of heat. If a little roughly 5K BTU electric heater can keep up for much of the winter for half the house, a wood stove cranking would run me out for sure lol. When I move into my "new to me" trailer later in the year, I might consider other options for heating, but as long as electric keeps as cheap as it has been, I will continue using it.
A woman I worked with had an older mobile home from the 70's. She told me that the summer electric bills were horrible when she had to cool it. What is your experience with summer and winter air and heat bills?
My summers I use 1 old window AC unit and one just 2 years old and my over all electric bill is $108 a month. My first winter my electric bill averaged $138 this winter my bills bill $109 on average.
We have a five bedroom 1988 double wide. Some friends are installing a new heat pump and ductwork on Monday. My concern is our electric bill. It’s currently around $300 a month and when we had a heat pump it’s usually $700 in the winter to heat approximately 2,100 square feet. I bought 20 rolls of R-30 insulation to put underneath our home after we have updated our plumbing lines. Any advice on how to keep our electric bills lower? I’m in the process of upgrading our old windows to double panes vinyl
Im a widow and bought a double wide mobile home and didn't realize it was in such bad shape. I took off all the sheetrock on the outside walls inside the house so I just have studs and removed the old R7 insulation. If I can't take the vinyl siding off outside in order to run the bubble wrap the length of the mobile home, what should I do? Can I put that foam stuff for Windows on the inside of the studs to seal it and then just put the bubble wrap and each length of the stud going up and down?
Might use some of that in my shed, only the best for my motorbike!..any plans to get a wood stove down the line?..we love ours, one of the best things we’ve done..there’s a silly little video of it on my channel...it’s awesome though, the heat is unreal..atb mate, Mark
Yea I wanted to this year but things are not going as planned lol I'll sure check our ur channel as soon as I get my screwin done on the outside of the mobile home
UA-cam is wrecking a lot of people. I wonder who is deciding, and why - there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. Maybe it's just so the stats show what people will follow. Might not be able to follow on Patreon as I'm a pensioner. So some content would be appreciated just to see what you finally do with your home.
Question. Not sure if you have help me or not. But we were recently blessed with a double wide home that we're fixing up. We have recently had the roof replaced on the home and we've noticed that we're having problems with moisture behind the drywall. Is there a way to fix this or prevent issues?? We've been running ac here because it's hot and humid in SC. Any help or advice would be appreciated
We had that happen to us. Turns out, when the roofing was replaced, they didn't seal ANY of the roof vents!! We had to get up on the roof and use tar sealer to seal all the vents. Rain was also coming in through the ceiling fixtures!!
Ok, hon. From what I gather once you are flagged here, you are under a microscope. That is inappropriate. Can an old lady ask whether your general content will include posters of risqué ladies? I will do my best to find a little money to support your work as long as you do on camera work sans such images. My son will be bringing his Nigerian Christian bride home soon. She has had to endure a great deal in her short life. So, I have to be sure I would not be inadvertently exposing her to something hurtful to her. It is my hope that your patreon workplace will be a professional one. I don’t care if you swear like a pirate, as long as we understand each other about the visual space .
Thank you for this video. I went to replace some insulation in the walls in my mobile home. I live in Montana and we have propane heat and very cold winters. The condensation is horrible on the windows, but I didn't think it would be on the inside of the walls, when I took out the insulation from the inside it was moldy, wet and also frozen against the siding on the outside. I didn't know what to do, or if this is normal, so here I am on you tube. It was reassuring to see that there is moisture on the inside of your siding as well, and that you gave us a solution of how to fix it. I also understand your rant about UA-cam. As the time that you spent to teach me this is invaluable, and it would have taken me a hell of alot more time trying to figure it out another way. Sometimes we take it for granted that if we need help or knowledge about something, well then we just "UA-cam It", but we need to remember that the people who make these videos take the time and money to make them for us. Thank you for such a great video!!!!!!
I have used foil bubble wrap on my windows. It prevents the heat from coming in, and in the winter, the cold from coming in. Worth it.
I use it for the same and works great!
You have to do what you have to do.
Best of luck to you.
Have a great day everyone.
I'm glad I came across this video.. I kept saying there should be a moisture boundary between metal and insulation.. my mobile home is from the 80s and I have been remodeling.. but moisture issues are a major problem.. trying to figure out how to solve.. but I noticed..you said you don't have these issues running a wood fireplace.. well I have a wood heater.. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
I put the reflectics (bubble foil) in my windows on super cold or super hot days and oh my wow what a huge difference
You ain't kidding Big Dreams this stuff is amazing for what it is. Check out this video ua-cam.com/video/xPTJD9nuWvQ/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for the info. on the bubble wrap. I also watch Boss of the Swamp, and saw him put this wrap under his flooring, but it didn't occur to me to put this on the walls. ( A duh moment). I especially appreciated your advice on HOW to put it on a mobile trailer under the metal siding and over the wood supports. Makes a lot of sense. God bless.
Gotta love Bossman! I used bubble foil to insulate a camper/RV we lived in (in Upstate New York). It's amazing!
Yea if I could be more like someone it be him. I binge watch his videos.
It’s just condensation from the cold metal and your warm house. Once you put the insulation back in the wall it won’t condensate anymore. I have the same trailer I’m working on but I am ripping off the aluminum and boarding it with half inch board. I did put a plastic moisture barrier between insulation and drywall though. Never open up your ceiling in the winter and expose that metal while heating or it will rain inside your house lol yup I did that had to dry it off and get it sealed back up fast.
Basically like a cold pop can on a hot day it sweats unless you put a coosey on it. 😉
I agree with you Jiffytoast but you also have to remember Kerosene or propane heat puts off moisture and if I'm not mistaken Direct fired heaters burn gas to produce heat. When gas burns, it produces water as a by-product. Some fuels can produce up to 2 cubic feet of water vapor for every cubic foot of gas burned while propane produces 4 cubic feet of vapor for every cubic foot.
Most of this condensation is simply from breathing,
I know what you mean,,I quit a job making 63k and in my area that's great for a single guy..was trading my life for money. I eat, still pay Bill's. And dont need anything from our government!
I like how you feel about your time. I agree and feel the same. Thank you.
I agree 100% on the time thing. That's one thing that can't be bought and I'd much rather just make it on less money & have time to do things that I enjoy as to be tied down working all the time for car payments and such. I prefer to keep things simple.
In two weeks I'll have baseboard heat to keep mine at temp and the propane heater will only be used when I'm there. I'm going to try and switch the unvented heater to a vented unit ASAP.
Bubble foil has many many uses. Great stuff. I'll just have to follow u here. Every dime I get goes to killing a tumor. Maybe one Day I can join patreon. It has worked well for many people and should work well for u.
Oh wow, I hope everything is going well with the fight.
So far so good. It's just way tooooo expensive. Drug companies do that.
I understand that too. With out several different kind of insurances my mom and dad would have had a heck of a time.
After installing the bubble foil would I still have to add that wool insulation that is also shown there?
Your doing a very good job on your place. If i had a following like you i would post almost daily. Even though i get no veiws on my vids i will continue to post vids on my renovations.
cardboard :O did not know that ,cool
Boss of the swamp is the best!!!
I hear you about our time and money ! Ive said in regards to this issue id rather have less money and more time than , to be working hard and long for nothing
When installing the bubble wrap do I understand correctly that the foil goes toward the outside and the plastic toward the inside?
That's how I've always installed it.
@@MDC2020 Thank you!
Actually it depends on your climate. If you're trying to hold heat in the foil should face inside to reflect heat inside the house back into the house. If you're trying to keep the house cooler then it should face out to reflect heat away from the house.
@@slimjim7411 what happens if you do double it foil facing outside and inside?
Thanks, going to Lowe's to check out that insulation for my basement garage ceiling. I may be able to do it myself! So I need to take our relationship to the next level on patreon? 😃
HAHAHAHAHA I'f you'd like. I'd really appreciate it but It's not required. I'll still be posting on YT just not nearly as much since apparently YT thinks I'm a horrible person and has almost stopped me from monetizing anything.
@@MDC2020 awww poo!
I was thinking of propping up rolled insulation against the inside of the skirting to help protect under my house from the cold temps. Do you think bubble foil rolled insulation would work better?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. When you say prop up rolled insulation do you mean a whole roll of insulation?
I'm glad I watched this I'm almost ready to start put my trailer back together. Please check out my rebuild on my channel.
Are you in a hot humid climate like Florida, Alabama, or Louisiana?
Very good choice
Unvented combustion heating inside of a mobile home (unvented propane, kerosene, natural gas, etc) will do this. So will just living in the home, but maybe not to such a degree. It's basically warm humid air in the home touching the brutally cold exterior shell. Like a cold glass of iced tea on a hot humid summer day. The outside of the glass is the inside of your walls. Mold city. This is why I don't use such unvented heating appliances. That being said, my grandparents used kerosene heat for decades in their mobile home without issue, but their mobile home was also "very well ventilated". If enough of the cold outside air gets into the walls, it will dry it out a lot quicker so there would obviously be less of a mold problem. Vented heating appliances cost a bit more, but are well worth it. If kerosene were cheaper where I live, I would get a Toyotomi vented kerosene heater (which can burn kerosene or ultra-low-sulfur diesel). The specs seem to suggest they are quite efficient at what they do and vent to the outside. The problem is, kerosene here is $4 a gallon and those heaters are about $2K here lol. With electricity at about 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, it's cheaper to heat with electric. Propane is also pricey here, but there are "direct vent LPG wall heaters" you can get from places like Home Depot. I saw some around the $1-$2K mark, but with the cost of propane and the efficiency of those heaters, it's just not cost-effective in my current trailer (about a thousand square feet). By next winter I will be moving into a much smaller trailer that I just got hold of today (for free, just have to move it). It looks to be a 12x35ft and heating with propane might be viable. Kerosene might still be too much. I don't have access to natural gas due to the gas company wanting me to spend thousands of dollars to service my house. No thank you. In my current place, heating almost the whole place to around 60F costs at most around $200 a month. When I was using kerosene, it cost about twice that. Never used propane as a heat source.
When heating with Kerosense I only heat the living room and kitchen. I keep a heavy blanket covering the hall way. Usually I spend about $60 a month in Kerosene and my Electric bill is about $120. As soon as I can afford I'm going to get a wood burning cook stove.
@@MDC2020 I would love a wood stove but it would probably run me out of the house. They put off a lot of heat. If a little roughly 5K BTU electric heater can keep up for much of the winter for half the house, a wood stove cranking would run me out for sure lol. When I move into my "new to me" trailer later in the year, I might consider other options for heating, but as long as electric keeps as cheap as it has been, I will continue using it.
A woman I worked with had an older mobile home from the 70's. She told me that the summer electric bills were horrible when she had to cool it. What is your experience with summer and winter air and heat bills?
My summers I use 1 old window AC unit and one just 2 years old and my over all electric bill is $108 a month. My first winter my electric bill averaged $138 this winter my bills bill $109 on average.
We have a five bedroom 1988 double wide. Some friends are installing a new heat pump and ductwork on Monday. My concern is our electric bill. It’s currently around $300 a month and when we had a heat pump it’s usually $700 in the winter to heat approximately 2,100 square feet. I bought 20 rolls of R-30 insulation to put underneath our home after we have updated our plumbing lines. Any advice on how to keep our electric bills lower? I’m in the process of upgrading our old windows to double panes vinyl
Do I need a permit to work on that in my mobile home?
Very informative 👍 I think Y T is doing it to all the video maker's. How you get to patreon ❓
Hey Paul, YT is doing it to anyone who doesn't have there same view points. I have a link in the description to Patreon.
Im a widow and bought a double wide mobile home and didn't realize it was in such bad shape. I took off all the sheetrock on the outside walls inside the house so I just have studs and removed the old R7 insulation. If I can't take the vinyl siding off outside in order to run the bubble wrap the length of the mobile home, what should I do? Can I put that foam stuff for Windows on the inside of the studs to seal it and then just put the bubble wrap and each length of the stud going up and down?
Good quedstion! I think anything, is better than nothing!
Might use some of that in my shed, only the best for my motorbike!..any plans to get a wood stove down the line?..we love ours, one of the best things we’ve done..there’s a silly little video of it on my channel...it’s awesome though, the heat is unreal..atb mate, Mark
Yea I wanted to this year but things are not going as planned lol I'll sure check our ur channel as soon as I get my screwin done on the outside of the mobile home
Hi Marty. Looks like your Patreon link isn't working. Is there an alternate link?
Check my latest videos there should be good links there
UA-cam is wrecking a lot of people. I wonder who is deciding, and why - there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. Maybe it's just so the stats show what people will follow. Might not be able to follow on Patreon as I'm a pensioner. So some content would be appreciated just to see what you finally do with your home.
Don't worry marry I'll still be posting here :) Like I said Patreon will just get most of my efforts first.
I thought mine was leaking become my insulation wet
We have a wood burning stove in the kitchen
Question. Not sure if you have help me or not. But we were recently blessed with a double wide home that we're fixing up. We have recently had the roof replaced on the home and we've noticed that we're having problems with moisture behind the drywall. Is there a way to fix this or prevent issues?? We've been running ac here because it's hot and humid in SC. Any help or advice would be appreciated
We had that happen to us. Turns out, when the roofing was replaced, they didn't seal ANY of the roof vents!! We had to get up on the roof and use tar sealer to seal all the vents. Rain was also coming in through the ceiling fixtures!!
All you need is a vapor barrier between the insulation and drywall.
Opposite in hot humid climates
UA-cam is screwing so many people 😠!!!
Yea, tell me about it. I mean hey its their platform I get it but at the same time It's shady business practices.
@@MDC2020 wait whats going on? Is youtube getting discontinued?
UA-cam has gone to Shit! Toys are good:)
Have you ever been told you sound like Hank Hill? No offense. Lol
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Get- Er -Done
Luke Bryan's voice lol
Ok, hon. From what I gather once you are flagged here, you are under a microscope. That is inappropriate. Can an old lady ask whether your general content will include posters of risqué ladies? I will do my best to find a little money to support your work as long as you do on camera work sans such images. My son will be bringing his Nigerian Christian bride home soon. She has had to endure a great deal in her short life. So, I have to be sure I would not be inadvertently exposing her to something hurtful to her. It is my hope that your patreon workplace will be a professional one. I don’t care if you swear like a pirate, as long as we understand each other about the visual space .
That wont work if you want to stay warm
Have you done it?
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