hey everybody sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to another video from our
master bedroom in our 1988 palm harbor single-eyed mobile home and today we are going to continue on
well this room and for that angela has already named the game for today she already said nope
this is what we're doing which is we are going to be prepping the walls and fixing the wall behind
us to insulate and then drywall in another video so today is wall work let's go as some of you
may have noticed in our video that was put out last there are some holes in the siding on the
wall that we've been working on we are aware of those many of those have been filled in
with clear lexile caulk but some of them have not so we're going to put gorilla tape on the inside
to kind of seal up that hole it's only going to be a temporary fix as we are looking to reside
our home in the near future so we're getting that taken care of we don't want anything
to get messed up with what we have done so far and next i'm going to take my oscillating tool
and i'm going to trim up some of the drywall that kind of got torn around the edges and
probably get rid of some of the little staples just to again prepare the walls for drywall
does that need to go in or out
this is about to get dusty yeah you're right just out
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during the demolition and removal of the drywall and installation i discovered that in the area
where the bathtub is and the electrical wire runs around it which by the way is how it was
originally we didn't run electrical that way there is an area where apparently the wire
has been nicked or cut in the past because someone wrapped it up with electrical tape
that's a no-no so we're going to fix that no-no by removing that entire
wire section which runs from one outlet through the wall around the corner and to another
with a brand new set of wires that way we are going to be safe and everything is done
too wow properly really crooked so we may have to add something on top of it
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i have all the electrical done as you saw there was that horrible tape job
that's totally out of the mix i went ahead and did new wiring for the whole run
installed new boxes and stapled all the wires down i also beefed up the outlet switch in our bathroom
that was mounted to a 1x4 so blocked that up and that is really really strong now what'd you do
i trimmed up where the drywall we weren't able to totally get out and i went ahead and took all the
staples and little brad nails nails anything that was holding up the drywall or molding
to the front wall and i cleared it off so it was ready to have
insulation drywall that type thing put on top of it nice so all of our walls in the
room are prepped for drywall almost and now we're ready to start on this wall yes
this is by far the most complicated wall in our bedroom this is the wall that's shared with our
kitchen on the other side of this wall is our stove rests we have cabinets on the floor and
the wall we also have an over-the-range microwave mounted so structurally this wall to me is not
built strong enough i've got a stack of two by threes that we're going to use to shore this up
strengthen it up and make it stronger and then i've also got some electrical work to do
as you can see there's quite a few wires coming in here there's two from the exterior wall that comes
across to an outlet in the bedroom and then from there we also have a light switch for our bedroom
that's also on this wall in addition to that we have two outlets for the kitchen one's very close
to that light switch for our bedroom and the other is up higher and that's where our over-the-range
microwave plugs in by far the biggest annoyance of this wall is that it is only two and a half inches
thick it is framed out with two by threes well okay mostly one by threes i've taken some time
to look at the possibility of reframing this out making it thicker and therefore giving us
a lot more room to work with and i just don't see that there is a great benefit versus reward
on the work that would be involved by far the best thing i would want to do is beef up and
thicken the other side where the kitchen cabinets mount but i can't add any wood to
that end other than what we're planning to do sistering to help support the cabinets
so in the end i think what we're going to be doing is the best thing for us with the
situation again we're trying not to do too much project creep we've already renovated the kitchen
we don't plan on touching or damaging any of that drywall and we don't want to just
lump ourselves back into a ton more work so we are doing what works for us right yeah
you've got to love how creative they were when they did circuitry in mobile
homes here is the light switch for our bedroom but there's three wires coming
in so you've got this box here with three wires all piggybacked off of
the outlet that's down at the floor so the first thing that i want to do is label all of
my spaghetti wires we've got three coming to the light switch just for the bedroom another three
for the outlet and then of course the various ones for the things in the kitchen i'm not going to
touch the kitchen boxes but the ones here in the bedroom we'll go ahead and take apart and get the
wires out of our way so we can frame everything up like we want then we'll drill new holes and run
the wires when we're ready for that part so first thing is to take this mess apart a little bit
we're going to go ahead and disassemble several of the wires in this wall
i'm pulling out the one from the kitchen outlet we want to get these wires
pulled out and out of the way of all the framing that way we can come in here
fill up what we want as we want to then we'll drill the holes and rerun it
there's so much
we're going to go ahead and remove this 1x3 it has pretty much been shredded it's trashed
but to do it safely or carefully delicate demo we're going to use the oscillating tool and kind
of get behind the drywall right here to separate it from the kitchen drywall so we don't destroy it
so
i got an issue here where the header of the doorway it needs to be pulled in
and i've only got one hand free so i'll show you a trick that i watched
i think it's rr building it's another youtube channel
put a screw in like that then you can take your hammer like this
if you pry pushes the pressure this way makes them flush you can drive this other screw in
perfectly flush now i'm going to take this one out and use it for the other part
so what i'm going to do next is just add some two by threes pretty much to every single one of these
one by threes i'm not worried about it going all the way to the ceiling remember none of this is
load bearing at least from the roof i'm just going to set it on the bottom plate put it right beside
flush it up and attach them this will just give us more strength and a better surface area to
attach our wall cabinets and base cabinets too and just give us a better wall as best as we can get
so
do
well we're at the stopping point for today because it is the end of today
however i feel pretty good about what we got done we got all the walls in here prepped for drywall
we did a lot of work with electrical i cleaned up a lot of the wires ran the new wires here
where we had the phrase installed our boxes and looks good for those of you who don't know
whenever they put in electric and mobile homes all of the outlets are floating meaning they are
not attached to a stud so anytime we have to redo a room we have to put in electric boxes and that
type thing we've added like house electric boxes to most of it but they too have been floating
so yeah they're all all residential boxes yeah and that's just the way mobile homes at least of
this vintage are built this is a 1988 model so that means yeah we run wires and i staple them
and i staple them a lot because i like the wire runs to look nice and neat and clean and parallel
so whatever it looks great for whoever sees it right now at least one of the things that's kind
of about today is if you really come in here and look you can't really see what we've done
like you wouldn't notice but taking out all the staples around the whole room from the drywall
and just fixing the electric it's one of those things that i don't know it took a day to do but
you can't really tell true i'm glad you were here for it that way you know that work was done and
nobody was slacking off watching youtube in the corner no so what do you think about the wall
i think it looks much better it looks legit like a wall now it is definitely stronger when we did the
two by threes and we kind of swapped them out or put the new ones in angela would go in the kitchen
and she would do new screws through our cabinets into the fresh two by threes so that's great
everything's locked down and i feel comfortable and happy with what's there now most definitely
we didn't really get to the insulation today but that's okay because i'm not itching
that works maybe i'll come in here tomorrow well no you'll be with me i was about to volunteer to
do insulation but come on let's not get crazy we may we'll get something done oh yeah definitely
we've definitely reached the part of ready to cover up our walls pretty much insulate and put
the drywall up so that's great it is very good accomplishment good milestone we're done with
in the wall work well thanks for coming along as we did this work maybe you learned something new
if you have any questions or comments leave them
below otherwise we'll see you guys next time on the homestead see you guys bye
oh what's that even though we're neck deep in a mobile home renovation don't forget we
are homestead channel there's a sneak peek of something up that's been purchased that we'll
show you guys in due time wow it's like a nuclear winter out here camera doesn't know what to do
oh it got you what's up with my face right now
what is that it's hair it's like sorry you don't know outside i'm like oh
they were on a mower i guess i don't know if you guys can hear the noise in the background but
that's isaac playing in his bedroom with legos the bedroom's empty but he's got his legos in there so
sounds like me trying to start the lawnmower i think it's star wars
it's always star wars themes with him we're gonna go ahead just throw it off hang on sorry
he just keeps going he does he's in his own little world we're going to go ahead and
things that just needed done we got a bug in my face come on it was a bug i feel like crawling
up my cheek guys i tried to bear through it but i knew i would talk too long to stand it
so since we de-attached everything from the drywall and the molding right here in the kitchen
i'm going to go ahead and use our wireless brad nailer and attach everything again
that should have it good and attached so we won't have to worry about it now
you