Now you can begin shingling your roof preferably with asphalt shingles.
Mobile home trusses over current roof.
Generally you ll need to build a frame for your new roof pitch and attach it to your mobile home s roof.
Nail the trusses into the existing room fasteners.
Built to give the roof a sloped design to shed water trusses are the studs that support the roof sheeting.
An easy to understand and follow how to video showing how to inexpensively repair sagging mobile home roof trusses.
Structurally they cannot withstand a lot of weight.
Once the trusses soffit and fascia are in place lay the roofing felt in place.
First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs.
Roof trusses are almost universally spaced 24 inches on center.
You can tell a roof is damaged from the inside of your mobile home.
Most mobile homes will have bowstring trusses made with 2 2 or 2x3s.
Nail the shingles to the felt starting from the outside in and cutting to fit when you reach a corner or edge.
Make sure you extend any vent pipes through the new roof pitch and seal it with flashing.
You can t roof over your mobile home without fixing damages first.
It will require some work but cheaper in.
Then add trusses to the frame and to the roof of the mobile home.
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.
You can then apply the chosen roofing material to this roof deck.