Deck Plans for a Mobile Home : Completely Free

Deck Plans for a Mobile Home : Completely Free - We're here to show you today how to build a mini ramp. And we're going to be building one that's 4 feet high and 12 feet wide. You want to have a good hammer to start out with. You can find all these tools at Home Depot or Lowes. An impact drill is going to be key, especially if you're drilling the ramps together. You're also going to want to have a jigsaw for cutting the transitions. Also, very important is to have your Skilsaw because you're going to cut a lot of 2x4s when you're building a mini ramp, so you definitely are going to need one of these. Also very key is a tape measure. You want to have a good assortment of drill bits. This is a level. You want to be on the level when you're building, so that's really important. What this is called is a chalk line. And the chalk line is used so that when you put your 2x4s in later in the building process you'll be able to see where they are under the plywood. It's good to have a pretty heavy duty pencil. I got this one from Team Pain. But you're going to be writing on wood, so a standard pencil isn't good. This is a carpenters pencil.

Next up, deck kits for mobile homes your actual wood supplies. So whether you're building a 12-foot-wide ramp or a 24-foot-wide ramp, you're generally going to use plywood and 2x4s for your most standard ramps. Our ramp we're going to build in an 8-foot section and a 4-foot section and combine the two later. So right here we had to measure the length of the 2x4s along with the transitions. So it's really important that your 2x4 goes to the transition, and the distance between the two is 8 feet or 4 feet, depending on the sections that you're going to build. A lot of people, they'll use string and a pencil and try to run it from one end to the other and come up with a nice circumference, but that's actually not the best way to do it. I'm going to introduce you to Curtis here. Curtis is getting ready to build a transition right now.

On this particular ramp, deck on mobile home we're going to do a 7-foot transition. So put one screw in the middle at 7 feet. So this whole 2x4 is going to pivot at that point. Drill a hole, the pencil's going to fit right in there. And so you started out at 3 and 1/2 inches, that's the height of the 2x4 that's going to be at the bottom. Mark it out, get your pencil in there, and then you just drag it along. It just pivots nice and perfect, yeah. You've got a perfect tranny. There you go. It's about to drop. To save yourself some money, just flip it on to the other side and then you would trace over it. So the next step in building a ramp, you're going to want to mark the transitions. The standard is usually every 8 inches, but since we're doing this as a temporary ramp, we're going to do it every foot. So you're going to start out with the bottom one. You want to make sure that these are level. When you go to put in, that this is flush with this. Anytime you're going to put in a 2x4 into plywood, you want at least two screws.