Replace Mobile Home Drywall
Mobile home construction has improved drastically over the years. More mobile homes are available with half or full drywall-covered walls; even mobile homes that seem to have panelboard walls actually have special, vinyl-covered plasterboard walls butted together with trim strips at seams, instead of mudded together like traditional plasterboard walls. Replacing broken drywall in a mobile home is much like replacing it in a site-built home, but you should take a few precautions to prevent problems.
Instructions
1. Examine the wall first to determine if it is traditional drywall or vinyl-covered plasterboard. For small damage spots in traditional drywall, you may cut out pieces and make patch repairs, while vinyl-covered plasterboard sheets require complete removal and replacement for even the smallest damage.
2. Draw a perfectly square or rectangle shape with the carpenter's square. Make the shape large enough to surround the damaged spot or spots in the drywall. You may need to cut out several spots. Use the reciprocal saw and blueprints to cut the particleboard pieces out without damaging wires or pipes in the walls.
3. Measure the height and width of the hole in the wall and cut a new piece of particleboard to fit into the hole. The new piece will have to be carefully tapped into place, by hand to prevent it from falling down behind the rest of the particleboard. Once in place, drive nails through the piece and into the wall stud behind the piece, if one is present. If no wall studs are present, proceed to the next step.
4. Apply drywall mud to the seams between the existing particleboard and the new pieces you added; if you added nails in the previous step, cover the nail heads with drywall mud as well. Use the drywall trowel to smooth out the mud. Allow the drywall mud to dry overnight and then sand the mud smooth to match the rest of the particleboard. Repaint the patched area to match the rest of the wall.
5. Remove entire pieces of vinyl-coated particleboard. Use a utility knife or drywall putty to pry the trim off strips between particleboard sheets. Leave the nails in the strips and sit the strips aside for reattaching.
6. Pry the vinyl-covered particleboard pieces out of place with the putty knife once the surrounding strip pieces are loose. You may need to break the particleboard into pieces around the wall studs, especially if the pieces are glued onto the studs.
7. Replace the old vinyl-coated particleboard with new sheets of the same design. Set the new pieces into place and reattach the trim strips to hold the pieces into place.
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