Are these ducts standard for a mobile home?
2nd attempt to post. Hopefully all the pics will load this time.
We replaced our a/c and furnace in our 1998 mobile home last year. They seem to be working fine but not much is getting to the vents so I decided to check it out. We've had issues with raccoons under there (they caused some electrical issues a few years back).
I figured maybe they knocked some vents loose amd I could just reattach them so i cut away sections of the vapor barrier to assess. I assumed the ducts would be metal. Instead I found these plastic covered slinky type duct things attached to 2 of the vents, shredded to bits. Both sections of the ducts i checked were wrapped with insulation that come down below the vapor barrier which seems to be intentional but they're all disconnected. I assume most of the ducts are like this.
The plastic that these duct tubes are made out of aren't even as sturdy as contractor bags. They're the kind I used to connect my dryer to the floor vent inside but I replaced the one underneath with a metal duct.
There's also a vent under a kitchen cabinet drawer that seems to have been filled in or wedged in place with expanding foam amd a license plate as if the hole was too big. There's also a mouse trap wedged in the foam.
This is some handyman special bs right? Ducts, insulation and vapor barrier will need to be replaced. How expensive is this going to be? Is this something we can diy with YouTube?