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RV Roof – Fifth Wheel Pictorial Guide

November 29, 2012 by Marlan at Rv52 3 Comments

RV Roof :

The RV Roof is one of the most important things to your RV. This is for a million reasons – first and foremost I’m reminded of the saying “three squares and a roof over my head” ( or something similar ). Or when the weather is incredibly terrible, raining, snowing, hailing, etc, – you’d rather have a roof over your head than anything else. Add in the fact that you paid $60K dollars for a really nice fifth wheel, and you want a roof to protect your investment too!

On your roof, you’ll find the air conditioners, roof vents, plumbing vents, sometimes you’ll find a skylight, and finally communications antennas ( rv tv antenna, satellite antennas, fm antennas ).

An RV roof is expensive to repair and I’ve heard that you can’t really do it in the field – its a trip to a dealer. I’ve heard estimates that say the roof is easily a $10K replacement value. So take care of it.

The RV Roof is a multilayer thing, but the final layer tends to be a rubberized coating. These roofs cannot really be more than 12/13 feet tall since they have to abide by transportation laws.

I don’t think I need to tell you where to look for your roof, but I can tell you its always worth a look.

rv roof
RV Roof showing air conditioners and vents.

Filed Under: About RVs Tagged With: 5th Wheel, Exterior, Structural, Tutorial

About Marlan at Rv52

Marlan blogs about living in an RV. Small space. Not a problem. Its all in your mind. Click on my author link to find out more about what RV52.com is all about.

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  1. Liquid Rubber says

    December 13, 2012 at 5:07 am

    There are several types of rubber roofs in the RV industry, the most common being EPDM, or Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer. It can withstand freezing temperatures and up to 300-degrees F. without becoming brittle. It holds up better than almost any other synthetic roofing material in UV exposure. It lasts about 10-15 years.

  2. Nicole says

    May 31, 2017 at 5:13 am

    Good blog and for roofing it’s important to get through one head all factors about repair and replacement. Roof Leaks Repair is an apparatus which boots stash you from replacing the roof.

  3. Marlan at Rv52 says

    June 4, 2017 at 10:28 am

    This is borderline spam, but since the blog traces to a MFG and just looks like a bad blog, I have approved it because I thought this might be useful to the RV52.com readers.

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