Thanks. I was pretty sure we weren’t the only ones. Sorry for your luck?! We’ve had so many things fail with this brand new rig. We thought we were going to avoid headaches buying new. Silly us.
Yeah… Sorry about YOUR luck!.. I’ve seen some posts.. a real shame! Your attitude is seriously inspiring !
They are a bad solution and you’re right, there was no wood or any blocking. Thin metal. We got some better brackets(we think) from a place further midwest and increased the number of them from 4 to 5. There was no place to put the 6th one we purchased. There’s also an additional strap on that pipe fix. Hubby thinks it‘s repaired, or, “at least it’s better than it was”. When he can snap some photos he will and I’ll post to hopefully close this out and maybe help someone else. We’re now dealing with a dead generator so all attention is there right now.
Adams County. It is beautiful here. We love it.
Hi. Thanks. My husband was an ASHI Certified Home Inspector so this is a good idea to quote regs and file a complaint. We just didn’t think there’d be such serious issues with a new rig. Hindsight, we should have had it inspected but I’m not so sure an inspector would have found this issue. We feel fortunate that we can handle/address on our own, these hits that keep coming.
I agree, it's unlikely an inspection would have detected an issue there and it's likely that missing bracket didn't go missing until you were on the road somewhere. We've only had our MH two years and I've learned it's not if, but when another issue will come up. Patience helps too.
In addition to what you’ve done, I would remove every outside bolt leaving the center bolt on each bracket. Then run a piece of 2” wide X 1/4” thick piece of flat bar running over the bracket from one bolt on the first bracket to the center bolt on the next bracket. Use several lag bolts to hold the flat bar to the floor material. Do this the entire length of the tank.
Toggle bolt - the drawback is you have to drill a 5/8" hole for a 1/4" bolt. They also have what are called molly bolts that have an external sleeve that expands as you tighten the screw into place.
Agree but you would be distributing the load over a larger area than basically a screw.
Oh, absolutely better than just a screw by itself. For the proposed use here it would be fine. I don't use them for picture-hanging because of the extra damage they do to the drywall, which I will eventually have to patch.
He looked at both types and said “if it fails again the we have a bigger hole”. He’s looking at installing blocking. We’re going to be replacing the shower which is almost above the blackwater tank. There’s metal framing alongside the tank, but nothing opposite. This is where, I think I understand, the blocking will go along with, he hopes a metal bar that will span between existing framing. Thanks for kicking this around!
Thanks! We’ll look at this as well.
I realize this is after the fact, but that's what perforated strap is designed to do. Just wrap the pipe and secure the loop with a stove bolt and nut. It's how abs is suspended under manufactured homes.
This is how we have been about it. We haven’t dealt with the dealer in Huntsville since our purchase as we are in Ohio.
Oh my godI had to replace my broken blade valve while there was still about 10 gallons of "effluent" in the tank. Because the valve was a couple feet under the outside wall of the trailer, in order to do so I had to sit down directly in front of it and just remove the bolts and let it go. Most of it landed in my lap. Fun times...
Yeah, since I had steeled myself for that outcome ahead of time, and because I have a fairly strong stomach, and because it all belonged to me the psychological impact wasn't too bad. The odor, on the other hand, was not to be ignored. I burned my clothes.
