Hello, just wondering if anybody has expierence with updating an older mobile home. i bought this about 5 or 6 years ago and it sits on 21/2 nicely wooded acreas. right now we use it as a vacation weekend cottage. and we dont use it alot all winter so we just drain the water and only turn on the heat when we come up for a weekend. well two weeks ago the furnace died on me. so now comes the question do i spend 1500 or 2000 on a new furnace or do i just replace the whole trailer. it is a 14 x 70 and is in really great shape. the only problem is it is older and is hard to keep heated. and eventually we would like to retire there and live in it all winter. my feeling if its doable is to do a little at a time, start with the front of the trailer replace all windows with good energy effiecient windows build the outside out to match new windows and add insulation to outside and then reside, with vinyl siding. this way i do not have a 80 thousand dollar bill, all at once and the project could actually be spread out over 4 or 5 years making it more affordable. has anyone done this and do you have any suggestions? or should just I bite the bullet and replace the whole thing in a few years?
