Re: an "efficient" mobile home?

Before I'd move into a MH, I'd install a residential sprinkler system.
Now that they're becoming code required in many areas, the materials
are getting quite affordable. The plumbing would have to be exposed
but if it's run in nice straight runs and then painted to match the
ceiling, it won't be terribly unattractive. Certainly less attractive
than skin grafts :-)

I'd also either paint the walls with intumescent paint* (fire
suppressing paint) or replace the wall coverings with fire resistant
materials.

The foam insulation that many MHs use will still burn vigorously, of
course, but not until the fire actually gets to it.

John

* when fire hits this stuff it swells up into a non-flammable layer an
inch or more thick. It effectively fireproofs wood and other common
flammables.

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:19:54 +0100, Janet Baraclough
<janet.and.john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> He's not kidding. We had neighbours who inherited an old mobile home
>on their land. It was so old and decrepit even scrapdealers wouldn't
>take it away. So, my neighbour decided the quickest way to get rid of it
>would be to set fire to it. The roof had been leaking so badly for
>years, he even thought it might be too wet to burn. He opened the
>windows and door, for air draft, stuffed some newspaper into a cardboard
>box inside the thing, and threw in a match. Two minutes, and its an
>amazing roaring inferno pouring seriously stinking smoke from burning
>plastic and insulation :-( 20 minutes later, it was just a chassis
>base. Even the metal walls had gone.
>
> Janet.
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John De Armond
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http://www.johngsbbq.com
Cleveland, Occupied TN
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