How To Rebuild A Tent Trailer Roof

Clean the roof thoroughly then use a rubber roof sealer to repair any cracks.

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. While rebuilding the roof of the pop up camper wasn t necessarily difficult it was tedious. In this video we discuss how to repair the lifting mechanism on a coleman niagara popup camper. Household roof coatings will seal a metal roof just fine but the best product by far for metal roofs is kool seal.

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. But my camper roof repair did pass the test of time. The finish product looked great. 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.

We ll do a little roof rebuild series but fair warning. While fixing a leaky camper roof is not too hard it s highly unlikely to be a simple walk in the park either. The new roof had an improved shape crowned in both directions and a metal support brace. Unfortunately the roof of the camper we bought was beyond repair and rotting away.

It is almost inevitable especially if you use it a lot or have had it for quite some time. Not only does the roof lose the damaged spot but the camper benefits from added light and air circulation. You have to prepare many tools and materials to give the roof a comprehensive repair so it would not leak again any soon. Do you have a pop up camper with a water damaged roof.

No to be the barrier of band news. The metal roof had many many pinholes and dry rot that in 20. We have a 1996 coleman cheyenne one of the first trailers with the abs roof. Roof top tent vs ground tent.

How to repair an rv metal roof. After a few years it sagged and we had it replaced under warranty with a new roof. Just google coleman abs roof repair and you will find lots of information. 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.

Before epdm and tpo metal was the material of choice for rv roofs. Many times the crank handle stops working and we show you how. 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. This won t make it last any longer though.

I filled the cracks with the mek method and followed all the intrusions for painting the camper with grizzly grip. Spring of 2015 i noticed small cracks in 2000 coleman.