Putting A Pitched Roof On A Flat Roof Mobile Home

Choosing the right roofing materials for you mobile home is key.

Putting a pitched roof on a flat roof mobile home.

Installing a pitched roof will almost certainly modernize and improve the look of your home. Many homeowners who have a flat or bowed roof are in need of a roof repair or replacement. However building the roof will be easier if there are two people working on the roof together. Flat roofs can become pitched and pitched roofs can go higher.

Since flat roofs need more maintenance and are more prone to leaks you will need to make sure to fix all leaks and issues before installing a pitched roof over the flat roof. Mobile homes constructed prior to the 1976 implementation of hud code mostly have flat or bowed roofs. Anyone with basic carpentry skills can build a roof over a mobile home. Manufactured homes the coded homes built after 76 tend to have more pitched or peaked roofs.

The image below shows a pitched roof being built over a single wide mobile home that originally had a flat roof. It also breaks up the boxiness of mobile homes. Many methods of changing roof pitch on a mobile home can be done without professional help. With that said we cannot provide a step by step guide for each method as it wouldn t fit in a single article.

The roof over process is going to vary widely depending on the size of your mobile home the materials you use and the current state of your roof. Raising the roof on a manufactured home is an excellent way to make it more weatherproof energy efficient and give it a homier vibe. Color material and even the shape of the roof can be changed when a new roof is installed on an older mobile home. A roof over a mobile home can also help prevent damage from falling tree limbs as well as cut down on the annoying noise of hearing heavy raindrops falling on the roof.

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