Rebuiling A Tent Trailer Roof

In this video we discuss how to repair the lifting mechanism on a coleman niagara popup camper.

Rebuiling a tent trailer roof.

Do you have a pop up camper with a water damaged roof. If you recently purchased or own an older pop up tent trailer pop up camper repair knowledge is a must. 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. 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.

The metal roof had many many pinholes and dry rot that in 20. How to repair an rv metal roof. It is almost inevitable especially if you use it a lot or have had it for quite some time. 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.

This is going to be a long series. How to do a pop up camper roof rebuild. Unfortunately the roof of the camper we bought was beyond repair and rotting away. Before epdm and tpo metal was the material of choice for rv roofs.

This won t make it last any longer though. Many times the crank handle stops working and we show you how. Tent trailer roof re build. 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.

I thought so too. While rebuilding the roof of the pop up camper wasn t necessarily difficult it was tedious. We ll do a little roof rebuild series but fair warning. There will be times your pop up camper roof needs repair due to cracks from small accidents or extreme weather conditions.