I have an older Patriot single-wide. I’d like to knock out a dividing wall in the kitchen but I’m not sure if its a supporting wall? How can I tell if I can’t get access to the layout or blueprint? The previous owner had crummy cabinets and cheezy drawers made and put in which made it a very tight kitchen area, so I wanted to remodel and just open it up to the rest of the living-room but put in a small aisle for an added counter space. Any suggestion in going about the remodeling of my kitchen? Thanks.
I had originally planned on installing ceramic tile, but some people say that you need to lay down 1/4 cementboard, and some say you need to lay down 3/4 plywood AND the cementboard. The floors are very solid and don’t have any flex that I can detect (the bathroom subfloor has been replaced with plywood of an unknown thickness and the kitchen is original particleboard of an unknown thickness). Can I get away with just backerboard, since the plywood is going to make a nasty difference in surface height between the kitchen and living room? Or if I use laminate instead, does that stuff hold up well in a bathroom (I would guess not)??
I had originally planned on installing ceramic tile, but some people say that you need to lay down 1/4 cementboard, and some say you need to lay down 3/4 plywood AND the cementboard. The floors are very solid and don’t have any flex that I can detect (the bathroom subfloor has been replaced with plywood of an unknown thickness and the kitchen is original particleboard of an unknown thickness). Can I get away with just backerboard, since the plywood is going to make a nasty difference in surface height between the kitchen and living room? Or if I use laminate instead, does that stuff hold up well in a bathroom (I would guess not)??