Mr. Clean's '85 Dubble Wyde build thread!

[Mr. Clean]

12/20 NEW PICS PAGE 4


Yeah so there's a fairly large story behind this thing but basically, Ms. Clean's dad offered us this place for $350/month. It's out behind her grandma's house in Cumming on about an acre of so of land. They lived in it way back in the day but it has been rented out for about the last 17 years and obviously the trashy renters that have been there didn't give a shit about the place. It needs a TON of work and er dad is fronting the money for most everything we've done and then if all goes as planned when the rent that we pay every month pays off that debt then we're rent free. it's a fucking long way from my work, but it's cheap and it's a hou- err trailer, whatever. The stigma behind living in a trailer is pretty hard for me so I think I'm trying to make this place as nice as I can so I don't feel as though I am lowering my standards as I have always had pretty decent place of residence so this is my story haha.

so far we've

-fixed gaping holes in floor
-painted all rooms
-new carpet throughout
-new linoleum throughout
-new fixtures
-deck/porch repairs
-gutter repair
-new doors and locks
-replacement windows
-re leveled driveway (3 dump trucks of gravel )
-window treatments

UPDATE 12/11:
-all new mini-blinds
-new oven
-outside lighting


and to come:

-kitchen cabinet revamp
-exterior paint
-car port cover thing (canopy)
-sidewalk to front porch
-porch repaint
-pressure wash from hell
-exterior sprucing
-replace sliding glass door
- probably tons more that i can't/don't want to think of

Here's the first day and it yes the paint is REDONKULOUS! the paint in all the rooms was so thick that we were peeling paint off the walls in huge sheets. it was awful. and sorry for the awful pics, i can't ever remember to get out my tripod. but yeah the anyway here's where we started:



























kevin, daniel, and derick came over and ripped some paint down with me lol, kevin was able to hide against my wall with the paint stretched around him and kevin ain't so skinny kid lolol

thanks juuu guys! geez.




AFTER SOME MORE PEELING:

[Mr. Clean]

and this was the second week:











CARPET IS NASTY! 20 YEAR OLD SHIT CARPET, SMELLS LIKE ASS

[PURP]

Thanks for the props on peeling the master bedroom walls.... gah!!!

[Mr. Clean]

this is after about 4 weeks of working and the most recent update 11/9/08

-living room done
-master bedroom 1 coat
-new carpet and linoleum

still need to do paint in the pink and blue room and the master bathroom and guest bathroom, but just about everything left is paint. oh and we have to put trim molding on the ground and some other random places need repair, but it's getting there.

[BKgen®]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh snap, son! looks great! looks like it has come a hell of a long way. you shoulda let a brotha know you needed some help. i've done a shitload of remodeling work with my stepdad.

[Mr. Clean]

just for comparison lol

[PURP]

what I don't get tho... Is she/you didn't like the putting green carpet, but you painted the bottom of the walls green...

[Mr. Clean]

what I don't get tho... Is she/you didn't like the putting green carpet, but you painted the bottom of the walls green...

IT'S FUCKING PUTT PUTT GREEEEEEEN CARPET!

i like green but i don't want to swim in it in my living room.

green is good in moderation

quote that ^ lulz.

[PURP]

You are right.... I wish we would have kept it.


quote that ^ lulz.

put that in your pipe and smoke it j00boi

[Sammich]

IT'S FUCKING PUTT PUTT GREEEEEEEN CARPET!

i like green but i don't want to swim in it in my living room.

green is good in moderation

quote that ^ lulz.

i think green should have been the trim...or at least use neutral colors..do u ever watch HGTV...they always push neutral colors in a home, u can better see how things will come out..i also see some better drapes making that room stand out..but wow at all that wallpaper stripping

[CHADbee]

place looks good dude, and 350/month? damn thats a good deal!!!

hell take the extra 500-600 a month you woulda spent on a apartment and buy a baller flat screen

i think green should have been the trim...or at least use neutral colors..do u ever watch HGTV...they always push neutral colors in a home, u can better see how things will come out..i also see some better drapes making that room stand out..but wow at all that wallpaper stripping

HGTV is FTW. reps given sammy.

[JDMjoe]

I can't believe you made a build thread lol

[DB4LYFE ™]

thats it my bags r packed move over justin!!! nice!

~DB4LYFE

[PURP]

and o another note... you're not allowed to put Mrs. Clean... you're not married retard.... it's Ms. Clean

[Mr. Clean]

and o another note... you're not allowed to put Mrs. Clean... you're not married, retard.... it's Ms. Clean

it's ON not o. and you missed a comma. retard.

god damn you're picky.

[PURP]

It's ON, not o. Plus you missed a comma, retard.

God damn you're picky.

You forgot to capitalize, put a comma, and you can't start a sentence with a lowercase A or the word and. You also forgot to double space after each sentence. Also, the word "God," is also supposed to be capitalized, no matter how you use it. Thank you and have a great night.

[Mr. Clean]

You forgot to capitalize, put a comma, and you can't start a sentence with a lowercase A or the word and. You also forgot to double space after each sentence. Also, the word "God," is also supposed to be capitalized, no matter how you use it. Thank you and have a great night.

[PURP]

LOL... It does look alot better... I need to make my way back that way and check it out/help again... But, my car owns me now...LOL

[WalkS]

Wow much improvement. I never knew those modular homes were so big inside! Good work and good work on the pic's also!

[Mr. Clean]

Wow much improvement. I never knew those modular homes were so big inside! Good work and good work on the pic's also!

haha yeah it is friggin ginormous. they're just so cheap. the walls are like this thin wood paneling and every time 2 panels come together there is a little strip of wood haha. AND there are like 234873094832 tacks in the wall to hold the panels to the wall. it's basically like plywood. and everything is "wood grain" laminate. i haven't been in but a handful of trailers in my life and they were all old, so i can only hope that newer ones are better made.

[Random Hero]

I like how it's just the two of you in this thread...lol

[puregroove]

make sure you seal that place up well... and don't leave any food scraps laying around. bugs like double-wides for some reason.

[Mr. Clean]

make sure you seal that place up well... and don't leave any food scraps laying around. bugs like double-wides for some reason.

yeah that's damn near impossible, that's another one of my worries, there's little nooks and crannies everywhere. it's supposed to get sprayed for bugs this week. we'll see what that does, but so far i haven't seen any critters.

I like how it's just the two of you in this thread...lol

you hush!

[boostedb16]

looks good. me and my wife bought a 03 double wide as our first place and yes the new one's are built a little better but not much. our's was big like yours but we out grew it quick.

[Dirty Octopus™]

as ive said before. i lived the first 6 years of my life in a HUGE gangsta ass trailer. i cant tell the difference.

a home is what you make it. and ya'll appear to be making it

[Mr. Clean]

as ive said before. i lived the first 6 years of my life in a HUGE gangsta ass trailer. i cant tell the difference.

a home is what you make it. and ya'll appear to be making it

well said sir. i lub ju... no homo.

[Dirty Octopus™]

well said sir. i lub ju... no homo.

i love you too baby

[Sammich]

i love you too baby

not DO too...i guess DO stands for dirty ...oooo 0 0 0:idb:

[Jimmy B]

huh, thats about 3/4 of a mile from me.. i accually helped someone move out of that house about 3 years ago... LOL...

i must say, it looks alot better now than it did! 3 years a go it wasnt THAT screwed up though..

[Mr. Clean]

huh, thats about 3/4 of a mile from me.. i accually helped someone move out of that house about 3 years ago... LOL...

i must say, it looks alot better now than it did! 3 years a go it wasnt THAT screwed up though..

hahaha are you for real! well with my g/f's dad being the landlord i can't really go wrong haha. and yeah the first time we went to go look at it the people that were leaving it were still in there and she was stem cleaning the green carpet and she was like ooo we just got it all cleaned up, it looks great blablabla STFU!

they left misc. stuff on the walls to cover up holes and stains and shit like we wouldn't take it down lol, they were shady as hell.

[Jimmy B]

LOL, yea,.. i can imagine.. not long ago the people i saw outside there didnt look like the "classiest" people, but livving in cumming, what do you expect? HAHA

I love down toward buford dam, right after the curves in the road, all the houses around me are for sale for between 350 and 400, so you are on a good piece of property

[mushroom_toy]

Damn now you need to wear that 1 wig 100% of the time.

Jk, but for real though living there will be good for ya man, I lived in a huge doublewide once, and it was about the same size as the house were in now. Cant really tell a difference when its done up properly.

Also $350 is better that $600+

[MidLifeCrisis]

i must say, looks pretty nice inside..

reminds me of one of those flip-that-house shows..

[Mr. Clean]

i must say, looks pretty nice inside..

reminds me of one of those flip-that-house shows..

haha yeah i've been thinking the same thing as we've been working. and i'm sure even after we move in we'll be doing a butt ton more work.



thanks for the compliments guys. love to hear em. makes me feel better about all this since my g/f is currently packing up our whole apt, and it is super depressing me.

[buddha@TeamFX]

Justin...thats alot nicer than what you were making it out to be bro!...Let me know if you need some help moving!

[d_day87]

it makes me sad...

[eViLMunkey]

Looks alot better than the before shots...

[Truegiant]

Looks like it has come a long way. I wish my payment was only 350. I have two payments of over 1k each month. I would recommend buying a couple of those bug bombs and throwing them under the house. I did that with a trailer I lived in a long time ago and it worked out great. I bought some 7 dust and sprinkled all up under the house also after the bombs had gone off. It killed everything. And then you can get to working on the outside of the house. Pressure wash the decks and add some stain and your set. If i didnt live so far away I would bring over the sprayer and we could do it all in a day!

[Mr. Clean]

Looks like it has come a long way. I wish my payment was only 350. I have two payments of over 1k each month. I would recommend buying a couple of those bug bombs and throwing them under the house. I did that with a trailer I lived in a long time ago and it worked out great. I bought some 7 dust and sprinkled all up under the house also after the bombs had gone off. It killed everything. And then you can get to working on the outside of the house. Pressure wash the decks and add some stain and your set. If i didnt live so far away I would bring over the sprayer and we could do it all in a day!

word. it's in cumming, i'll make sure to let you know if i get the willingness to do all that haha. my parents have a pressure washer that they're supposed to bring, but we'll see if that happens.

[Sir_Christopher]

come do my house next :]. lookin good