Mobile Home Trusses Over Current Roof
Built to give the roof a sloped design to shed water trusses are the studs that support the roof sheeting.
Mobile home trusses over current roof. First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs. Flat standard slope half truss and bowstring trusses. You can tell a roof is damaged from the inside of your mobile home. An easy to understand and follow how to video showing how to inexpensively repair sagging mobile home roof trusses.
Nail the shingles to the felt starting from the outside in and cutting to fit when you reach a corner or edge. Now you can begin shingling your roof preferably with asphalt shingles. Then add trusses to the frame and to the roof of the mobile home. Most mobile homes will have bowstring trusses made with 2 2 or 2x3s.
Generally you ll need to build a frame for your new roof pitch and attach it to your mobile home s roof. Look around for light showing through cracks dark spots on your ceiling or walls peeling wallpaper or paint and or sagging in the ceiling walls gutters or siding. Nail the trusses into the existing room fasteners. It will require some work but cheaper in.
You can then apply the chosen roofing material to this roof deck. Bowstring trusses are a dome shape. On older mobile homes where the roofs are nothing more than a covering of thin sheet metal the lines of the support beams are clearly visible through the metal. Structurally they cannot withstand a lot of weight.
You can t roof over your mobile home without fixing damages first.