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OLD JOB Page
1980
We began with a single wide mobile home, with an owner that had a vision and had been turned down my several contractors. To start, we dug and poured footings and foundations to support the trailer and the new structure.
The trailer stayed in tact. as we installed a roof using scissor trusses, strong enough to hold up the existing ceiling and a drop ceiling for the new sections.
We removed the axles, and constructed a step down sunroom, with slanted glass on the south west side of the house.
For structural integrity, the entire outside of the home was covered in plywood, for rigidity. At this point, the inside was not yet opened to the addition. we opened the outer skin just enough to match the floor and ceiling levels.
The large lot, on a small hill, on the edge of the coal mining town in central Utah.
The House was insulated the old fashion way. Thick Fiberglass!
Even the sunroom was well insulated to hold in the heat against the cold snowy winters.
This photo is inside the back section, with the trailer still sealed, we finished the secondary interior, and suspended the trailer ceiling in preparation for suspending it when we remove over 20 feet of its exterior wall.
With the sunroom windows installed, we were to the home stretch for exterior finish work.
As the siding went up, the idea that it was once a mobile home, went away.
The front similarly, magically became a house.
The Finished Product, and the house is as solid and continuous on the inside as it looks on the outside.
Final Front View
A REAL HOUSE!
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