Archive for the 'Activities' Category

Prepare your mobile home for winter

Prepare your mobile home for winter early. Change the furnace filters and oil the blower motor. Replenish your heating fuel supply.
Get rid of junk, papers, leaves, and grasses which have accumulated under the unit during the summer. With your troublelight, look for holes along the bottom subfloor. Patch them so you don’t have to share [...]

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Grounding

Grounding is the most important factor in your home’s electrical system. Electricity needs two wires to travel in, one to the load (light or appliance)and one return wire to complete the circuit back to the source. The wire to the load is called the hotwire. The return is called the ground or neutral wire, because [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Knowing the Electrical System

No matter where you look in your mobile home, you see the need for plenty of electric power. Electrical systems in today’s mobile homes deliver sufficient horsepower to maintain a high standard of living.
The simplicity of an electrical system makes minor repairs by the homeowner easy. BUT you must understand the principles of electrical safety [...]

Sunday, March 15th, 2009