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mobile home framing techniques
Increasing the door height would reduce room for a header. I don't have a clue about header requirements for trailers, but our inspector wants me to replace some BS framing in our front porch door with doubled 2x10's before I install a pre-hung door. It's in a 4" unloaded wall, but there probably is one rafter over it and the roof has to carry snow. A door in a trailer wall is likely in a loaded wall.
I don't know how a standard residential door and framing would work for a trailer. Our old 40' construction trailer has 4" walls but the doors are nothing like residential doors. The doors still jam if the trailer isn't leveled right. I suspect that unless to doors are very light, 2x2's for the short studs wouldn't hold the door weight near the hinges without deflecting.
I suspect that what ever is done has to accommodate leveling changes and flexing if the trailer is moved. Maybe standard low-cost residential units may create problems. I think that trailers build on steel frames work very differently from structures built on masonry.
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Thanks Grinder! I doubt the rafters span the short side-walls in this lean-to porch roof but I suppose there could be stubs from the middle of the end rafters to the wall plates, which would be over the door--don't know how much that would load the door frame though. The inspector's idea is that if I have to replace the short door frame studs with longer ones to accommodate a pre-hung door than I might as well make the whole area solid to the wall plate, whether it needs 2x10's or not.
Dang! This whole thing started with an insurance company nattering away about the lack of steps and an exterior door on a front enclosed porch. Few people have front stairs around here. Two other entrances meet fire code. The problem is me wanting to save as much of my wife's flower bed as possible by eliminating landings and handrails. I think I've figured how to do it and it shouldn't be too bad. However, I suppose that my wife's flower bed will blossom with my aggravation if I find two layers of exterior wall covering nailed to the door framing I may have to remove.
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