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To: PA Engineer

Looks like cheap, cheap construction. Tears up easily. Folks don't generally live in trailers like these for more than a few days/weeks at a time, but these folks were LIVING in them for months and months. I can believe that they have been damaged quite a bit.

Lean against one of those walls, and you'll put a hole through it. Open a cabinet door too aggressively, and the thing breaks off.

There's a difference between good, durable construction and cheap construction. The cheap stuff is cheap for a reason.


43 posted on 11/02/2006 12:20:05 PM PST by petitfour
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Since these are the same type of trailers that have literally self-destructed while sitting in fields unused (according to FEMA, at least), I wonder how much active "trashing" was involved in rendering these occupied trailers in need of repair.


58 posted on 11/02/2006 1:00:09 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: petitfour
Looks like cheap, cheap construction. Tears up easily. Folks don't generally live in trailers like these for more than a few days/weeks at a time, but these folks were LIVING in them for months and months. I can believe that they have been damaged quite a bit. Lean against one of those walls, and you'll put a hole through it. Open a cabinet door too aggressively, and the thing breaks off. There's a difference between good, durable construction and cheap construction. The cheap stuff is cheap for a reason.

Such cheap construction that mine that was new is 1989 has been lived in summers every year since then, with 3 growing children and grandchildren, whatever dogs we had over the years, and I have yet to see a hole in the wall or a cabinet door broken off.

62 posted on 11/02/2006 1:12:29 PM PST by Abby4116
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