hey guys and welcome to the homestead what whoa
whoa whoa that's not our normal intro what is
hang on i like things a certain way okay hey guys my name is sam
and i'm angela and we're green acre homestead is that better
much better i'm more comfortable now i feel like i was wearing someone else's
underwear for a second gross we are outside this is the back of
our house right here is the back door nobody's home and we're underneath our
back porch but that's not the focus of this video
what's the focus of this video we are going to finish out
the windows now everyone's going to be really confused with that statement
because weren't we done didn't we do the windows in our house we did
there were two what kind of windows do you call those they don't open
windows not window windows so we figured we would leave them because they don't
open they were fine they are double pane
yeah they're just like panes of glass on our
was it 1988 single eye mobile home so so we were going to leave them until a
crack had formed in one and then a piece came out so now water
can get down in between the panes yeah mysteriously somehow the window got
worse and you didn't do it i didn't do it
and the story on the street or the word on the street is
not me did it if you're a parent you know all about this not me person and
if we ever find them save them and we'll save them for you and you save them for
us so yes we're gonna be swapping the
windows out of our dining room of our mobile home right
here's a look at the window of a fence right here is where there's crack and
now there's an opening so this one's going to go
and for those of you don't know it's really bright
i'm leaving a few for you honey
thanks
boy that one was straight
now we go up
here i'll go down here yeah save some fun for me
oh i am saving fun for you
there's one right there
oh two four here okay now i caught every one of mine
oh that one was difficult to do because it's stripped out
it's just spinning in the oh okay in the rotten hole
no it's not rotten don't say that i don't want any extra work
yeah i think this nut driver is about shot well these are also really bad
i see now while you quit
it's wonderful when it doesn't work and everybody's watching
that's all right it's all to show you how much fun
you two could be having this could be you right here
good see there wasn't rotten wood it was just
a bad nut driver all right you got two more up there i know
it's gonna be difficult that one's angled down from the top
because you know let's not make it easy or logical
all right i have to get a elevation device
gosh really it's just right in the way
did i have to get a wrench on the ones on the other part of the house i don't
recall i did
the top screws are not really accessible by the drill so angela got me a quarter
inch ammo a quarter inch wrench and i'm gonna
take them out by hand this way not as fun but should work
having fun yeah this is awesome i love it it's so cool
yay here we go all the screws are taken out
so now we're going to use our 10 000 1 tool as we call it
and go ahead and start prying between the window and the house siding
to start pulling it apart which i don't think it'll be very difficult
because it's cold today so the adhesive is probably going to be
not sticky and it's also really old so it's going to be not sticky
the biggest thing you have to worry about with this is not to tear your
siding you want to be careful because the
siding is aluminum on these old trailers or mobile homes
all right so now we're going to first look at this
dual pane window it's honestly just a piece of glass held in there with
the little quarter round molding and trim from inside the house
wow top of the line top of the line let me go push on the inside
yeah do that but wrap a towel around your hand i don't want to break on you
but that's probably a good idea
it's on camera oh man it bounced off the steps and it did fine
but yeah it didn't handle the grocks too
well
okay guess what i get to do a thousand piece pickup thousand pistol
we are so redneck oh my gosh thumbs up for rednecks pushing windows out of
their house
so we found out that we're going to have to take this old trim out
because the windows that we have now are just a little bit thicker than the old
windows so out it comes
man man i'm working so hard
does your husband just sit back and make you do all the work no this is the fun
part tell the truth this is the fun part did
he tell you to do that no she's all about the demolition
reconstruction and painting apparently is my
forte well yeah you're the builder you have to twist it and you're the
breaker
see look at that face
demolition right there
who is it chip and joanna gaines ain't got
nothing on us you guys don't see them in some old 80s single wide
what the finger of talk this is paint it's not mold
that's good sam's paint job multiple layer paint job there
would you call it the finger of caulk yeah yeah
finger talk this is about to talk about this right here where the fingers
pointing
in all seriousness it is actually really surprising that
none of this windows framing or seals have any science site
sign of dry rot leakage mold or issues that says a lot i don't know what it
says but it says a lot of that since every other window we've redone
has some rot yeah some is putting it lightly
remember that kitchen window on it's got some rot in there you know take
an eight foot section of your house wall apart
we have our new window here and before i put any sealant on this at all
i want to dry fit it and make sure that we're correct in our measurements and
everything looks good
all right i got the opening adjusted and everything ready to rock and roll the
window fits thankfully i am getting ready to put the
sealant on the house now you can do this two ways you can put
it on the window itself or on the flange or on the house in this case i'm gonna
stick on the house never know next window might do it on the window
either way as long as it's between the window and the house that's what you
want the product i'm using is called lexel it
is my favorite sealant hands down it's clear
it's waterproof instantly it's paintable it's flexible it's good stuff it's also
not too cheap but you know hey you want your
house leaking i'm gonna put a bead of the sealant all around the perimeter of
the window and then smush the window in
place
even though this is being really difficult to squeeze out because it's
kind of chilly today i think we're around 38 degrees maybe
the application temperature for this goes all the way down to zero degrees
fahrenheit so good stuff
all right i'll pass off no i'll pass the camera off to me the
window is in place just temporary right now
angel's going to run inside real quick and align me left right front center
front and back and all that to make the window centered in the
opening
so
so that looks really good let's go take a look from the inside and see how it
looks in there
so
do
i just got the outside window out but i'm going to wait
until angela gets back from the post office and grocery store to get the
inside glass pane out the one that we broke on the first window
while i'm waiting i want to take a second and tell you guys first off
thank you so much for those of you who have ordered some of our soaps and stuff
from our website angela took a big load of stuff off just
now and it really means a lot to us so we really
really appreciate that the second thing i want to say is that
this installation is meant to be a how-to for mobile homes with metal
siding it's mostly mobile homes probably built
in the mid-1990s and older and it's going to be a very
different scenario than what you see with homes or newer modular manufactured
homes the window replacement procedure for this style home is more along the
lines you'll see from a aluminum camper or vintage camper
more so than from a home what i mean by that is the windows actually adhere and
screw on the outside outside of the siding and they just kind
of hang out there and that's how things work
now that i think of it not very much unlike the portholes on ships i guess
i just wanted to point that out for anyone watching wondering
why we're doing the window like we are this is
a tried and true method for our house we've had the other homes
windows done for about two and a half years now exact same way
no leaks no problems no issues at all so we're confident in showing you this
as a one method that works for us and should
probably also work for you as well i'm gonna take a second inside and go
ahead and move this shelf back over to this corner i really hate this shelf
i want to come up with a better solution for storing
our printer and homeschool stuff and crafts
and stuff but that's not the point right now i get sidetracked
i want to go ahead and move the table and everything over enough to give
angela room to hit this window well not hit it but get to this window
so we can get that tour out and hopefully
put back all together without it getting dark on us or
getting too late so enough talking more working
okay it's not perfect but there's enough room to get there now so we get this
window taken out and everything okay
still didn't catch it but it didn't break this time yes i'm see what i'm
afraid of as you push through it's going to shatter on me that's why i'm
that's why i'm wimpy but hey this one came out and didn't break
do
interior view look it opens
perfect timing it was that was awesome
so they look great they look really really good from the outside because now
we no longer have two old windows with our other new windows
and i'm gonna look great in here once we do the trim and molding too
so cost how much do the windows cost 100 each
so 200 bucks for windows these are kenro brand windows and they are special size
for mobile homes so 100 per windows is a lot if you go to
lowe's probably but these are weird sizes for mobile
homes another thing um i looked online at like
one of the mobile home discount places and
it was going to be i think 110 each and then you're gonna have to pay like
60 70 for shipping so i found a place that was
kind of local that had mobile home stuff and contacted
them to see if they could order them they could and they were 98 each
and i didn't have to pay for shipping a lot cheaper so that'd be a tip for
anyone if you have a mobile home parts store nearby
call them and see if they can order them if not you can get them on the internet
and it's going to cost a little bit in shipping
hello everyone hope you enjoyed us showing you how to put windows in an
old metal siding single wide mobile home i don't know there's too many videos out
there at least new ones or recent ones so
hopefully this is helpful if nothing else entertaining
thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next time bye
you