We have joined two mobile homes and would like some help on how to open the walls to enlarge the living space.


Thank you

get a big can opener and cut a hole to desired size, then cram a bunch of old sweaters and newspaper in large gap between trailers, this will help save the amount of expanding foam you will need to get a good seal, then trim out the rough edges of the hole with paneling and corner moulding, dont forget to get up on the roof and spread of them big blue tarps you can get at wal-mart over the gap between the roofs, you can hold it down with some old tires and duct tape....

Thanks but no thanks. Your reply was very rude. We need some serious help here and not rude remarks. Contrary to what you might think we are not trailer trash. Would you like to supply the old sweaters and old tires?

I can't say as how I've ever heard of what you're suggesting being done. But it does seem to me that you can't open up the space between the two trailers by just opening it up like a can opener. The problem would be supporting the roof when you don't have the walls, which normally do the job.

You might be able to proceed the same way you'd proceed in making a large hole in a load-bearing wall - put some kind of beam to hold up the roof, with occasional posts to hold the beam up. However, that would be a lot of work, and a lot of money. Not to mention the resulting overall structure would not be very strong without a lot of building up, and it would be difficult to seal up from the weather outside.

I think you'd be better off just making do with a limited number of doorways between them. At least it would be a lot less to seal. And the preceding comment may have been rude, but he's right about the expanding foam and paneling/molding.