Mobile Home Trusses Over Current Roof

An easy to understand and follow how to video showing how to inexpensively repair sagging mobile home roof trusses.

Mobile home trusses over current roof.

Then add trusses to the frame and to the roof of the mobile home. First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs. Structurally they cannot withstand a lot of weight. Make sure you extend any vent pipes through the new roof pitch and seal it with flashing.

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. You can then apply the chosen roofing material to this roof deck. Generally you ll need to build a frame for your new roof pitch and attach it to your mobile home s roof. Flat standard slope half truss and bowstring trusses.

Bowstring trusses are a dome shape. Roof trusses are almost universally spaced 24 inches on center. Nail the trusses into the existing room fasteners. Most mobile homes will have bowstring trusses made with 2 2 or 2x3s.

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. It will require some work but cheaper in. You can t roof over your mobile home without fixing damages first. Built to give the roof a sloped design to shed water trusses are the studs that support the roof sheeting.

Nail the shingles to the felt starting from the outside in and cutting to fit when you reach a corner or edge.