Mynyel Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 We were just told this by our landlords "property manager". That double-wide homes naturally have spongy floors... ours go up and down a little (enough to get vertigo sometimes) and you can feel it bounce when someone else walks on it. He said it was natural. This is the first double-wide we have ever lived in so I don't know if it is true or he is just being his normal full-of-BS self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Erm, I don't think so. I lived in one for a year back in college, and the floor felt perfectly normal to me. Hey, at least you won't need to buy the kids a trampoline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLBMom Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 We bought ours new in 98 and we moved it in 02. It has never had spongy floors. It has always felt the same as any other house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaners Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 I wouldn't say it's natural, but some of them definitely do that. My in-laws have one as their second floor set on top of a walk-out basement. (Does that make sense?) If my toddler runs from one end of the house to the other, the whole house shakes. I have never lived in a double-wide until we moved into this place, but our home does not move at all. It does have extra supports underneath according to our home inspection. A million other parts of it drive me crazy, but the floor is solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmama Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 No, they don't. Spongy floors in any type of mobile home or trailer are a sign the floor is bad. Lived in trailers and rv's my entire life until college. I've lived in one with spongy floors, but we knew the floor was going as it had dry rot in part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 He's full of it. No floor should be spongy. If it is, there's a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 No, they don't. Spongy floors in any type of mobile home or trailer are a sign the floor is bad. Lived in trailers and rv's my entire life until college. I've lived in one with spongy floors, but we knew the floor was going as it had dry rot in part of it. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Jo Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 I think he's full of it. I lived in one as a teen and the floor was fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jubilation Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 He's full of it. I live in a double-wide that has spongy areas in a couple of rooms. It's not normal; it's because that part of the floor is rotten and needs to be replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historically accurate Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Our last one did, but that's because the floor rotted due to a leak in the fridge. Our current home doesn't have any give at all in the floors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Lived in one for 14 years. It was rock solid. My dc could be jumping up and down in the same room and there was no movement in the floor at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 In older ones, yes. They used to be made with particle board instead of OSB, so any moisture would rot the floor out, or make it "expand" and be spongy. The one we live in now has a spot where there is NO floor under the linoleum. We are waiting for it to be fixed. They aren't easy to fix, though. The floors in our place in FL were so bad that there were actually "waves" in the livingroom floor! Various parts of the floor fell through, but it was always due to water damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Lived in mobile homes most of my life (and dh's grandfather rents out a bunch of trailers, which we have lived in 2, we have bought the 2nd one from him under land contract) and floors should not be spongy. My mom's home has spongy floors and holes covered with plywood where the floor has just fallen through because she doesn't have the money to get anything different or get the floors properly replaced. Dh's grandfather says the landlord should relocate you if the floors are bad in more than one room and pay to have someone redo the floors and not with particle board and should not have carpet in the bathroom or kitchen (he says it's the biggest cause of floor rotting in a moble home) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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