Water damage repair for mobile and manufactured homes in Los Angeles

Belly board and underbelly water is the most common call. We remove a skirting panel, find the low point where the belly is sagging, and cut a controlled drain opening to let the water out into a pump or a container rather than across the pad. Soaked insulation is pulled from the wet section, because it holds water against the floor and ducts for weeks. We photograph the leak, the water and the damaged section before anything is closed. Once the framing and decking read dry, new insulation goes in and the belly board is patched or replaced with a sealed seam.

Soft mobile home floors usually mean the particleboard decking under the flooring has absorbed water and lost its strength. It does not dry back to its original condition the way plywood often can. We pull the finish floor in the affected area, probe and read the decking, and cut out only the swollen or crumbling section back to sound material. New decking is fastened to the floor joists, leveled to the surrounding floor and dried in before the finish goes back. Areas around toilets, tubs and the water heater closet are the usual spots.

Mobile home plumbing leaks come from a few familiar places: older plastic supply lines and fittings, the water heater closet, washer connections and the drain connection under the toilet. Many parks also have a shutoff at the space riser outside the home, which is the first valve to close. We work with your plumber or the park on the repair itself, then dry the belly, ducts and floor. Where water reached the heating ducts in the belly, we check them for standing water and damage, because wet ducts spread moisture and odor through the home.