How To Rebuild A Tent Trailer Roof

There will be times your pop up camper roof needs repair due to cracks from small accidents or extreme weather conditions.

How to rebuild a tent trailer roof.

Do you have a pop up camper with a water damaged roof. We figured out how to fix it by removing all of the water damaged wood and then rebuilding the roof structure and reattaching the aluminum skin. While fixing a leaky camper roof is not too hard it s highly unlikely to be a simple walk in the park either. But my camper roof repair did pass the test of time.

No to be the barrier of band news. The metal roof had many many pinholes and dry rot that in 20. This won t make it last any longer though. While rebuilding the roof of the pop up camper wasn t necessarily difficult it was tedious.

Be aware that installing a vent is more labor intensive than caulking or using a fiberglass patch and the location of the repair is limited by what will look natural to the camper a mass of caulking could end up looking better than a vent that looks out of place. It is almost inevitable especially if you use it a lot or have had it for quite some time. How to do a pop up camper roof rebuild. We really want to go into detail on just how we tackled our pop up camper roof rebuild so we are breaking this post up into several smaller posts.

Tent trailer roof re build. After a few years it sagged and we had it replaced under warranty with a new roof. 1978 starcraft galaxy swinger roof re build and canvas replacementmay june 2015owner troy crivelloneas with many old tent trailers the roof on my 78 starcraft was not working at all. Clean the roof thoroughly then use a rubber roof sealer to repair any cracks.

The finish product looked great. Spring of 2015 i noticed small cracks in 2000 coleman. Before epdm and tpo metal was the material of choice for rv roofs. In this video we discuss how to repair the lifting mechanism on a coleman niagara popup camper.

You have to prepare many tools and materials to give the roof a comprehensive repair so it would not leak again any soon. This is going to be a long series. We ll do a little roof rebuild series but fair warning. Many times the crank handle stops working and we show you how.

I filled the cracks with the mek method and followed all the intrusions for painting the camper with grizzly grip. How to repair an rv metal roof. Household roof coatings will seal a metal roof just fine but the best product by far for metal roofs is kool seal. Unfortunately the roof of the camper we bought was beyond repair and rotting away.

Roof top tent vs ground tent. Just google coleman abs roof repair and you will find lots of information.