Once the trusses soffit and fascia are in place lay the roofing felt in place.
Mobile home trusses over current roof.
You can t roof over your mobile home without fixing damages first.
Nail the trusses into the existing room fasteners.
Make sure you extend any vent pipes through the new roof pitch and seal it with flashing.
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.
You can then apply the chosen roofing material to this roof deck.
You can tell a roof is damaged from the inside of your mobile home.
Roof trusses are almost universally spaced 24 inches on center.
Most mobile homes will have bowstring trusses made with 2 2 or 2x3s.
Structurally they cannot withstand a lot of weight.
Nail the shingles to the felt starting from the outside in and cutting to fit when you reach a corner or edge.
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.
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.
Bowstring trusses are a dome shape.
An easy to understand and follow how to video showing how to inexpensively repair sagging mobile home roof trusses.
First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs.
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