Rebuiling A Tent Trailer Roof

Household roof coatings will seal a metal roof just fine but the best product by far for metal roofs is kool seal.

Rebuiling a tent trailer roof.

Pop up campers pop up campers also known as tent trailers are small lightweight travel trailers that fold down while traveling and through a system of cranks and pulleys pop up when you are camping. Do you have a pop up camper with a water damaged roof. Tent trailer roof re build. Many times the crank handle stops working and we show you how.

If you recently purchased or own an older pop up tent trailer pop up camper repair knowledge is a must. The metal roof had many many pinholes and dry rot that in 20. 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.

We ll do a little roof rebuild series but fair warning. Unfortunately the roof of the camper we bought was beyond repair and rotting away. How to repair an rv metal roof. How to do a pop up camper roof rebuild.

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. Before epdm and tpo metal was the material of choice for rv roofs. After a lot of research though i realized that you could still repair that abs roof and in many cases the owners of the repaired coleman abs roofs were happier with the results than had they gone with a traditional pop up camper roof. Clean the roof thoroughly then use a rubber roof sealer to repair any cracks.

In this video we discuss how to repair the lifting mechanism on a coleman niagara popup camper. There will be times your pop up camper roof needs repair due to cracks from small accidents or extreme weather conditions. This is going to be a long series. I thought so too.