Do Mobile Homes Need Roof Vents? Solved
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During summer, if there’s no proper ventilation, hot, stagnant air will accumulate under your roof, heating the ceilings and escaping into your living space. As a result, the air conditioner will work harder to cool the house, consuming more energy. When it’s too cold outside, the main purpose of ventilation is to help maintain a cold roof temperature in the roof. That will prevent the formation of ice dams by melting snow.
You should call them if you have a serious issue or can’t find a leak (water is one of a mobile home’s biggest enemies). They have ways of testing a system and narrowing down a problem in minutes. If your washer drain line is only an inch and a half pipe you may want to consider re-piping it with a two-inch pipe. While doing that, tie it in under the house directly to the main drain/trunk line itself, separate from the kitchen drain. Those 1.5″ pipes just aren’t meant to handle a lot of water, especially high-pressure water being released from a newer washer.
Mobile Home Drain Line Venting
We tried to determine the exact odor, sewage, sulfur, rotten eggs, what is it, etc……….We augured the main line from cabin to tank. We put a vent coming out of the cabin in and up and outside of the cabin. This park model is not vented through the roof. The drain probably dropped when you unhooked it for the sink which caused it to hold water underneath and cut the vent off to the toilet.
It sounds like you are having a ventilation issue. A venting pipe may be open somewhere or clogged. If the venting is not right it can cause the water in your P traps to get sucked out which will cause the odors. An auto vent can be used under your sinks but you really need the main vent pipes sticking out of your roof to be healthy and working like it should.
Drain – Waste System
If that isn’t it the clog is further than your snake can reach. With the grease build up you can snake it but the grease just closes back off after the snake is pulled out. Did I create this issue in the first place with the butt load of soil?
This is a tedious, time-consuming process that requires you to carefully go over every inch of the roof. You will need a ladder tall enough to be able to climb onto the roof easily to remove the existing shingles. Don’t worry, the roof of the mobile home will hold the weight of one or more people without any problems unless you have badly rotted parts of the roof.
The 3 Parts of a Mobile Home Plumbing System
If they didn’t know the very basic plumbing rule that a p trap needs to be on every tub and sink then they probably didn’t know there was even such a thing as ventilation. It sounds like the pipe running to your shower head is spraying water up into your ceiling. Probably right behind the shower head or at the connection. Pretty sure a new line coming from your cutoff to your shower head will fix your problem.
With all that said, let’s learn about the common cause of venting issues issues in mobile homes, how to diagnose an problem, and how to repair it. The ventilation system allows air to enter your drain lines so it can keep the right atmospheric pressure in the pipe. Without the ability to breath, draining water would create a vacuum or suction that pulls all the water out of the P-traps . There are a few venting and drainage issues in mobile homes that can be diagnosed and repaired by the average DIY mobile home owner. This article will help you better understand and diagnose those problems, and hopefully, repair them.
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Below you’ll see a photo of some plumbing that has been installed in a new manufactured home being built in a factory. It’s a brand new home with brand new plumbing and seeing it will make a master plumber with 22 years experience chuckle and walk away shaking his head. A trap is a curved pipe under your fixtures but you usually only see the traps under your sink.
It would/could only leak when you flush which absolutely can cause a smell since its waste water. You will want to have a professional plumber come out and check the main trunk line for grade and stoppage and then have that ‘clean out’ at your master bath capped off properly. This is a bit of a health hazard and needs to be remedied quickly.
These vents tend to get clogged with leaves, bird or bee nests, or any other debris that can find its way into a pipe sticking out of a roof. Ventilating the attic space will prevent heat from accumulating in the attic space, stopping ice dam formation. Ice damming occurs when the heat from inside the attic space combines with that from the sun to melt ice and snow on the warm roof. As the melted water runs to your roof’s edges, it begins to refreeze. When this happens repeatedly, the frozen water will accumulate, damaging the roofing system.
Check behind your washer and make sure you don’t have water hitting your floors or walls and soaking in. You likely wouldn’t see it during regular day to day activities. You’ll probably just need to remove the fan to find out. Most manufacturers don’t release much information or schematics for each model, only an annual manual for single wides or double wides.
An air admittance valve is used in cases where connecting a drain pipe to a stack vent is difficult or impossible. They ensure that waste goes down to the sewer and gases stay out of your home. A lot of venting issues are mistakenly thought to be drainage issues in mobile homes but they are absolutely caused by improper or imbalanced venting design. I have a 1999 double wide with a 40gal electric water heater. I cool to warm water coming to my faucets and no hot water. In Jan 2016 I paid someone to change my shower drain (bathroom #1)and washing machine to drain out in my yard.
Work carefully around the edge of the roof to avoid injury or injury. You should wear safety glasses while working, as a lot of loose material will fly off toward you. The material should be thrown in a garbage can below you as you work. Thank you for the links and I’m going to open up the panel with all the tub valves in it this weekend. I try to publish 2 articles per week but sometimes life gets in the way.
It now has to go into a 3″ trunk because soap builds up in the lines so easily. Vibrating could be either partially clogged vent or a loose water line vibrating. This is probably best handled by a licensed plumber. I am having issues with my washer not filling right or spinning and draining.
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