Trailer Snow Roof 401

If you remove the heavy layer of snow the ice will quickly disappear.

Trailer snow roof 401. Shoveling the driveway was like shoveling wet sand. This isn t as pronounced in an unheated rv but as the sun climbs higher in the sky in early spring you can still be faced with water under the snow. The snow we got is about as heavy as you can get it snowed for a while then rained for a while and back and forth. Snow consistency varies from fluff to wet cement.

The layers close to the roof can melt and remain slushy while the top of the snow is still nice and fluffy. A rubber tip on the steel blade protects the roof. Overlap panels to avoid rain from seeping in through cracks. Use at least one nail per foot to keep the roof from blowing off in windy weather.

The vertical style rv covers have a 20 year rust through warranty on the roof panels while the horizontal roofs on boxed eave and the regular style motorhome carports only have. Once a snow storm is over bundle up and go out to your rv to remove the snow off your roof. So if the area of the trailer roof is 187 sq. The plow like scraper removes snow as the trailer moves under the device.

9 gallon mobile coat white reflective elastomeric roof coating mobile coat is a high quality elastomeric roof coating for waterproofing and maintaining mobile home and rv roofs it dries rapidly with a built in primer and cleaning agent to form a cool white 400 elastic watertight roof membrane that expands and contracts resists cracking and peeling and stays flexible even down to 25. We got about 2 5 or 3 total feet of snow like that but luckily it was really windy so i ve only got about 1 5 feet on top of the trailer right now. Photo provided by paul mcnichol. Use a plastic snow shovel to remove the snow do not use an aluminum snow shovel or a shovel with a metal tip.

Living in canada in a snow belt area that will regularly see yearly accumulations in excess of 10 feet and single snow storms of over 3 feet every few years we get used to this amount of snow. Even though you have a cover over your roof that still doesn t protect it from the heavy snow. The vertical style rv carports are the strongest and have the panels running from top to down on the carport letting the snow dirt and debris fall off to the ground. Galvanized 5d nails 1 3 4 inches in length should be used.

Many people were talking about getting up on the roof of their rv to clear the snow that accumulated. Pyle has 15 installed at its terminals in the northeast with two more. But most experts agree a cubic foot of settled snow weighs 15 lbs on average. Nail the roof panels to the rafters.