A while back my water heater broke in my Weekend Warrior and water got under the linoleum flooring. Now the wood has started to get moldy and crack so me and some friends are going to tare it out and fix up. Took some pics of the nasty.

Yuck!

Post progress pics...kuddos for fixing it yourself

Will do. Still not sure on how I'm going to do it.


1. kill all the mold and place new wood on top.

2. take out all the cabinets and replace all the wood.

Whatever I feel will come out looking clean, I cant see these cabinets holding up to well taking them apart. We shall see...

Any ideas would be appreciated.

When I cut out old wood from homes I use a toe kick saw it cuts about 1/4in from the cabinets. You have to be careful you can lose a finger or two by the kick back I hate using it but it works when I can't move the cabinets.

Let us know what you do and how you do it.

Johnny airtime posted the name of a sealant or something that can replace rotten wood.

For the wood that is not rotten but has mold on it, just treat it with Kilz.

If you don't take out the cabinets and get all of the moldy wood out I'd be afraid the mold would wind up spreading back into the fresh wood. I looked into getting mold out of wood flooring a couple years ago and it seemed you couldn't really "kill" it, it was recommened that a couple feet beyond the edge of the mold be removed just in case. There's got be someone on here that knows about mold removal.

Do a web search on mold remediation.

Might have to go this way, I'm going to see if I have anymore options first before I go chopping it all up. Thanks for the reply.

I have the kilz spray, plus Ive been bleaching it and scrubbing off all the surface mold, Its coming up pretty good. I will look into that sealant for rotten wood.

Thanks for the info. What I was thinking is to kill all the mold that I could then put some kind of sealant over it like socaldmax mentioned.

Doing that today. Thanks

Will do.

From what I've heard from mold remediation guy, you should only use the specific mold sprays. The bleach evaporates rather quickly, and leaves just plain water behind, often making the problem worse if you didn't kill it all.

Well shit. LOL. I will get the specific mold spray now and stop with the bleach. Thanks for the help.

Bleach will kill anything living, but needs to sit
on it for 24 hrs.
Would even cure aids in people if we
could keep it in for the 24

the hard is that you cant really replace all of the floor in these trailers. when they are built, the floor is put down, then the walls are built on top of them. id also be concerned about floor strengh if you cut out and replace parts of it. however you go about it tho, keep us posted!

Looks like we are just going to treat the wood the best we can then lay a new piece over it. The plus side is all the doors for the bathroom and kitchen to bedroom are about 2 inches above the ground, so laying a new piece of 3/4 plywood on the old flooring and I will still have 1 1/4 inch before the doors hit the floor. If I have enough space I would like to ad sliders for the doors also to keep them more stable. I will have new pics up tomorrow or tonight of the progress, new floor will be in tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the all the help.

Update. Got the new flooring in yesterday. Came out great. Cooper Green works the best for taking off, and killing mold.

Here is the linoleum pieces just laying on the floor. Wanted to make sure it would look good before sticking it down. This looked way easier to install then the regular sheet of linoleum, and it only cost 30 bucks for 45sf.

I wish I would have seen this sooner. I work in the GC and Mold remediation field.

If you just scrubbed the top of the wood and sprayed an anti microbial just watch for the mold coming back. You could still have mold under the cabinets or on the underside of the floor. An encapsulater (killz) will just help prevent it from coming back through the top but it can still grow underneath and eat all the plywood away from the bottom up.

Did you cut any inspection holes to check under the floor?

I bleached it, used kills, and used copper green off and on for about a week letting it dry out good. I should be good. Really not much else I could do. Just hope for the best. If it works for 3 seasons or more Ill be happy with the outcome.

Also used this paper type stuff between the two sheets of ply wood. Its should hold up good.

Well the flooring is finished and it turned out great in my opinion. Made my trailer look brighter and cleaner inside. Thanks for the help GD.com.

Looks good