How To Put A Roll Rubber Roof On A Trailer

Timelapse of metal roofing install on mobile home trailer.

How to put a roll rubber roof on a trailer.

The seams must all be taped and sealed and then the rubber shingles can be nailed down on top in rows. The first layer should cover the roof as far as the chalk line. Push the rolled roofing down into the wet cement to secure it to the roof. Rubber coat 57 roof tar.

Use a soft brush then get down on your hands and knees to have a look across the surface of the roof then brush it again. Once the rubber membrane sometimes called epdm is stretched over the roof and holes cut for the vents the rubber is next folded over the roof edge and fastened with screws. Now that your nice new timber roof decking is on and clean it s time to place the rubber membrane onto your roof. As you place the rolled roofing down stretch it to get rid of wrinkles and creasing.

When we discuss coating a metal roof it s usually an rv roof but the dicor metal rv roof coating product works great on metal horse trailer roofs too. Rubber tpo probably the most common material for an rv roof and actually comes in two different types. This is how i did a metal clad roof on my travel trailer did this on the cheap couldn t afford a 3000 re roof with the rubber epdm. Please subscribe to my channel and also follow me cowboywade on instagram i have an ebay page.

Music is credited to cantina blues take the lead. The rolls are cut to fit then unrolled across the roof and smoothed out to avoid air bubbles. Place the first layer of rolled roofing on the roof. An epdm rv roof ethylene propylene diene monomer or a tpo rv roof thermal poly olefin.