Fleetwood Manufactured Homes Quality

Page 6: Fleetwood Manufactured Home Window Cancer Quality Manufactured Home Workmanship! Wow! Who'd a thunk it? Nailed-in "headers" over windows in load-bearing walls. Not just one window, but ALL the Fleetwood Home windows are like this. And it appears that the main strength of the header came from the bedroom wall panelling that might be 1/8 inch thick. So what does this mean? Well, those aluminum-framed windows are holding up one hell of a load, particularly in the middle of winter. If it was a vertical lift window rather than horizontal slide it probably would have exploded long ago. Seal Up the Window? Why Bother? It's a Manufactured Home! This is what happens when the window isn't sealed and your Fleetwood Manufactured Home's roof has no eves. All of the water on the roof runs down the outside wall, and some of it finds its way inside. So we find mold that makes you gag if you're not wearing a gas mask, and completely goo-ified particle board floor. Also of interest: the wiring is "applied" to the wall by notching the stud, laying in the wire, then hammering on a protective plate. Guess this sort of makes sense since it's probably a lot faster than drilling holes in the studs and pulling wire through the holes. Chop that Manufactured Home! So this is the required action on the Fleetwood Home: chop out all the rot and goo and completely rebuild the floor and wall under the window. Does this look like a lot of work? Believe me, it IS. (Don't forget to brace the wall during this work, otherwise it just might collapse, and then you might just get a bulldozer and bulldoze your Fleetwood home and build a new home from scratch because it just might be easier.)