Some interesting repair pictures
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:31 pm
Thought you guys might get a nice laugh out of this. A friend of mine asked if any trailers were for sale in the park. After talking to the office manager she gave me some lot numbers and prices. Called him back and told him which ones were for sale and told him to get a hold of the office manager to look at them. We have an office lady that does the paperwork and a "maintenance" guy that handles the maintenance stuff. I use the word "maintenance" very loosely. I have already had to fix a bunch of stuff he did wrong and calling the guy a hack would be giving him too much credit. The office manager told me that the maintenance manager was looking to sell his trailer also. I didn't tell my friend about his trailer since I knew his quality of work and didn't even want to look at his trailer. Guess when my friend came to look at the trailers the office manager showed him the other manager's trailer as well. Long story short he ended up buying it.
He called me after he bought it to come take a look. I couldn't believe what I saw. I've seen some bad trailers but this one takes the cake and then some. Keep in mind this guy was the park's "handyman" and in the monthly newsletter he was always offering his fix it services.
The floor has many spots that are rotten which were all covered up by furniture and rugs and my friend isn't a handyman so he didn't really know what to look for. The kitchen sink was painted and when he scrubbed it the paint all came off. The stove originally had a gas hook up and he must have gotten a good deal on an electric one. So to wire it up he drilled a hole right through the side of the trailer and ran a wire hardwired to the stove out the hole and put a plug on it and plugged it into the 50 amp outlet on the main meter panel. Our meter panels have the main 100 amp breaker for the trailer hook up but they also have a 50 amp camper hook up and a 120 outlet. So the stove has no means of disconnect inside the house. The kitchen countertops are painted black. The sink drain is sloped uphill by about 2"!!! He hooked up a dishwasher by using the tail piece adapter but he didn't use an air gap and the drain hose is just laying on the ground so it has to be draining dirty water back into the dishwasher. And the kicker, there must be some leaks on the drains so he used what looks to be 3-4 containers of plumber's putty to try and stop the leaks. Absolutely unreal. The bathroom he build his own vanity, used two kitchen 12" wide cabinets, one on each end. The put a laminate countertop on them. Then in between the cabinets he just put a couple 1x4s for shelves and a sheet of 1/4" faced ply to cover up the hole. I can't wait to open that up. He has 12" peel and stick tiles on the whole trailer, I personally can't stand those things because every single time I see them there are gaps and it just looks bad. There's a lot more and we haven't even looked under the trailer or at the flat roof yet. Also there are cockroaches in the trailer. It was just nasty dirty.
I don't know what he looked at when he went to look at the trailer. I know his lease is up at the end of the month and he wanted to buy a trailer instead of renting another year. So I don't know if he just jumped on it since he was running out of time or what. He did call me to look at it but it was after he already signed papers and I told him I didn't really want to get in the middle of that since it is our park manager and he could make my life difficult if he wanted. But I told him I would run away from it but guess it was too late. Now the fun of fixing this hack's work starts. Went and picked up a new sink and plumbing today, going to start there and then start digging into the floors this weekend.
I'll post up more pics as I take them.
Sorry forgot the image uploading part of this forum is no good. Here is the picture.
He called me after he bought it to come take a look. I couldn't believe what I saw. I've seen some bad trailers but this one takes the cake and then some. Keep in mind this guy was the park's "handyman" and in the monthly newsletter he was always offering his fix it services.
The floor has many spots that are rotten which were all covered up by furniture and rugs and my friend isn't a handyman so he didn't really know what to look for. The kitchen sink was painted and when he scrubbed it the paint all came off. The stove originally had a gas hook up and he must have gotten a good deal on an electric one. So to wire it up he drilled a hole right through the side of the trailer and ran a wire hardwired to the stove out the hole and put a plug on it and plugged it into the 50 amp outlet on the main meter panel. Our meter panels have the main 100 amp breaker for the trailer hook up but they also have a 50 amp camper hook up and a 120 outlet. So the stove has no means of disconnect inside the house. The kitchen countertops are painted black. The sink drain is sloped uphill by about 2"!!! He hooked up a dishwasher by using the tail piece adapter but he didn't use an air gap and the drain hose is just laying on the ground so it has to be draining dirty water back into the dishwasher. And the kicker, there must be some leaks on the drains so he used what looks to be 3-4 containers of plumber's putty to try and stop the leaks. Absolutely unreal. The bathroom he build his own vanity, used two kitchen 12" wide cabinets, one on each end. The put a laminate countertop on them. Then in between the cabinets he just put a couple 1x4s for shelves and a sheet of 1/4" faced ply to cover up the hole. I can't wait to open that up. He has 12" peel and stick tiles on the whole trailer, I personally can't stand those things because every single time I see them there are gaps and it just looks bad. There's a lot more and we haven't even looked under the trailer or at the flat roof yet. Also there are cockroaches in the trailer. It was just nasty dirty.
I don't know what he looked at when he went to look at the trailer. I know his lease is up at the end of the month and he wanted to buy a trailer instead of renting another year. So I don't know if he just jumped on it since he was running out of time or what. He did call me to look at it but it was after he already signed papers and I told him I didn't really want to get in the middle of that since it is our park manager and he could make my life difficult if he wanted. But I told him I would run away from it but guess it was too late. Now the fun of fixing this hack's work starts. Went and picked up a new sink and plumbing today, going to start there and then start digging into the floors this weekend.
I'll post up more pics as I take them.
Sorry forgot the image uploading part of this forum is no good. Here is the picture.