Last years question regarding spray foam
Some might remember, last year I posted a question for my FIL. He took a deck and made a enclosed room over the top and slowly kept add to it so eventually it was a addition to the house. The skirt was fill in with aluminum trailer type skirting and added a couple heat runs, but still cold in the michigan winters.
I suggested that he spray the underneath with foam,heat runs and all, he didn’t like that idea because a friend said………
I posted the question here and I was surprised by the feedback!!!! About 50/50 on spraying the underneath of the floor and spraying the insides of the al skirts!!!!
Well I can say I told you so to all that sided with my FIL, he sprayed the inside of the skirt and made a conditioned crawl space. He now has every ground squirrel in the county living in his nice warm space during the winter. They are now coming out for spring. He made a perimeter with a 2×6 at the base to stop that. Wrong!!!!
Also the foam expanded threw the cracks in the al panels and looks like
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I'm not taking the fall for this. I told you to spray the squirrels also.
So are the squirrels digging holes to get in their or are they going through the seams? Did you screw the skirts to each other or were they only attached to the top. One of the otions is to remove the skirt, and reisntall in a 4" concrete trench/footing. Tehn spray again. But this again might lead to compounding troubles of using non-traditional methods to addressing this whole addition.
Yep!
FIL wraped the bottom with a treated 2x6 thinking this is the deepest something will burrow under. The skirting is held only by a track top & bottom, a pop riviet would have been a great idea in the overlaping groove of each panel. To late now, remember, I am just the lowly SIL!!! What do I know??
But when it's a skunk that gets under there, I will be the one he calls!!!
Do you know what a dead cat smells like???
Hi Cameraman.
I don't recall the posts, so no comment on the spray vs no spray stuff, but as for trailer skirting...that stuff is ####...period!
Our Carpenter Shop crew at the mill was called out all the time to fix and/or replace trailer skirting. Nothing much secures it in place...a strong wind can tear it apart. Most times the skirting is placed in a bottom vinyl "J" channel that is pinned to the ground with rebar. Each panel slides in vertically and the top band snaps closed to hold the whole mess in place.
We got so tired of repairing this #### that we finally got smart and started buying T-11 and building a 2X4 frame work to attach it to...this worked much better.
Trailer skirting is only for looks...nothing else.
Davo
You got that correct, just imagine spraying foam on the flimsy ####!!
>>>> Trailer skirting is only for looks...nothing else.Skirting when done correctly keeps the wind from chilling the underside of a trailer and/or pre-fab on blocks.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?