Install Flat Metal Roof Single Wide Mobile Home

The main benefit of installing a metal roof on your mobile home is the insulation that goes beneath it.

Install flat metal roof single wide mobile home.

Materials can be purchased at your local lumberyard for less than 1000. Manufactured homes the coded homes built after 76 tend to have more pitched or peaked roofs. Your choice of colors. Use a circular saw to cut the corrugated sheets of metal to the correct size.

Use 3 inch white sheet metal screws with neoprene washers on the ridges of the corrugated metal sheeting. Install the roofing screws vertically along each rib in the panel. Insert the foam closure strips on each side of the metal sheet. Installers are laying foam insulation boards over the old single wide mobile home roof.

Many homeowners who have a flat or bowed roof are in need of a roof repair or replacement. 4 overlap the corrugated metal sheets in one direction only. Position the first sheet of metal flush against the edge of the house making sure there is 4 inches of overhang on each side. The new roof can be installed in 1 2 days depending upon your skill level.

Generally you ll need to build a frame for your new roof pitch and attach it to your mobile home s roof. Our standard install includes a layer of foil backed radiant barrier insulation ribbed 29 gauge metal roofing with a 6 inch overhand on the ends of your home and a 12 inch over hang along the sides and the edges trimmed out in edge trim. Mobile homes constructed prior to the 1976 implementation of hud code mostly have flat or bowed roofs. Secure the corrugated metal sheet using a drill and 3 inch deck screws to attach the metal to the furring strips.

Make sure you extend any vent pipes through the new roof pitch and seal it with flashing. Be sure the larger edge is laid so that the small edge of the next panel will overlap it. Basically if you can run a drill saw and read a tape measure you can install your own metal roof. Then add trusses to the frame and to the roof of the mobile home.

Install metal panels or shingles align the first metal roofing panel so that it overlaps the edging by 1 2 to 3 4 of an inch and is square to the roof line. A thick layer of foam insulation helps deaden sounds on your roof greatly reducing the noise that s common to a mobile home. Soil pipe boots and sealed around any other vent pipes as needed.