Mobile Home Trusses Overcurrent Roof

Short story no you will not be able to add any additional weight to your home without beefing up its structural integrity or giving the weight its own support.

Mobile home trusses overcurrent roof.

A mobile home roof over creates a unique opportunity to completely change the look of the home. Pre manufactured stock trusses are constructed with spruce pine fir spf or southern yellow pine syp lumber. The roof over provides a new look to the mobile home making it look more like a site built home. Roof trusses are almost universally spaced 24 inches on center.

Flat standard slope half truss and bowstring trusses. There s little to no material removed which can keep costs down. 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. Most mobile homes will have bowstring trusses made with 2 2 or 2x3s.

Built to give the roof a sloped design to shed water trusses are the studs that support the roof sheeting. Less labor is needed and there are much smaller refuse fees. Build a roof over an existing mobile home roof over a roof over can be installed over the existing roof of the mobile home whatever its shape flat sloping or domed. Before we continue we need to cover a few basics about mobile home roof overs.

First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs. Bowstring trusses are a dome shape. They are designed at a 4 12 pitch to be spaced 2 foot on center.