Modular Home Roof Trusses

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Modular home roof trusses.

4 types of mobile home roof trusses. Generally you ll need to build a frame for your new roof pitch and attach it to your mobile home s roof. Mobile homes use lateral roof trusses that go from one side of the home to the other and rest right on top of the sidewalls. You can then apply the chosen roofing material to this roof deck.

Bowstring slope half slope and flat. Some roofing experts say you can do on manufactured homes that have 2 4 studs 12 16 oc and roof trusses that are 16 oc or less. These trusses the meet building code criteria as specified by structural building components of america sbca and the truss plate institute tpi. The perimeter walls are attached to the roof trusses using metal straps and nails as shown below.

Pre manufactured stock trusses are constructed with spruce pine fir spf or southern yellow pine syp lumber. Bringing the roof and home together. 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. They are designed at a 4 12 pitch to be spaced 2 foot on center.

Then add trusses to the frame and to the roof of the mobile home. Before we continue we need to cover a few basics about mobile home roof overs. Once the roof truss system is completed the manufactured home roof structure is moved over the rest of the home. Flat standard slope half truss and bowstring trusses.

If your manufactured home s roof truss sits completely upon a top plate it usually indicates a load bearing wall. It s often used for cellars and long hallways. Others roofing experts have told me they won t do it on any manufactured home. This has a characteristic barrel shaped ceiling.

The size of each roof truss depends on the design roof load and pitch. First there are three common types of mobile home roof or truss designs. Roof trusses are almost universally spaced 24 inches on center. This decorative type of truss adds volume keeps the room cool and has a relatively low maintenance drywall.

In order to create the semi cylindrical appearance for the ceiling this truss would need many small pieces of wood framed together. Roof construction of a clayton built manufactured home starts inside a climate controlled home building facility with trained home builders assembling a complex truss system that has been specifically engineered to provide a secure foundation for the rest of the roof.